Rublev Colours Artist Oil Colours 50ml Flemish White
Rublev Colours Artist Oil Colours 50ml Flemish White
Flemish White has a creamy, long consistency that makes it excellent in pure highlights composed primarily of lead sulfate. An opaque white pigment mixture based primarily on lead sulfate ground in linseed oil. This warm white is opaque, but not to the same degree as titanium white, so it won't kill colors in mixtures with it.
In his Field's Chromatography of 1869, Thomas Salter identified Flemish white as lead sulfate (page 67). In Practical Treatise on Painting in Oil-Colours of 1795, "white precipitate of lead," which was sulfate of lead, was sold under the name "Flemish white." Before the nineteenth century, Flemish white was lead white made in Flanders. After that time, it was a precipitated lead sulfate, which derives from basic lead sulfate. Rublev recreated Flemish White of the nineteenth century, which was a mixture of pigments consisting of lead sulfate, lead white (basic lead carbonate)) and magnesia (magnesium carbonate). Instead of magnesium carbonate, we substituted talc (magnesium silicate) because it has much less water sensitivity than magnesia.
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils let you experience what the old masters well understood--the unique characteristics of pigments. The pigments used by old masters in their paintings were ground from natural minerals and earths, fermented in dyer vats and concocted in alchemist laboratories. Rublev Colours Artists' Oils give you the same pigments used by the old masters prepared with linseed oil as ready-made paints.
Rublev Colours uses natural pigments or historical reproductions of pigments used by the old masters. Rublev Colours Artists' Oils are formulated to maintain the unique characteristics of each pigment in oil. The character found in each tube of these oil colors is unique due to the pigment inside, giving the artist nearly limitless choices of texture, opacity, consistency, tone and hue.
Rublev Colours Artists' Oils do not contain additives, such as fillers, driers and stabilizers--simply pigment and oil. Refined linseed oil is used in the paint sometimes with a small amount of heat-bodied linseed oil. Stabilizers, such as stearates and waxes, are not added that diminish the individual effects of pigments in oil. Therefore, you will find different consistencies from color to color due to the individual pigment characteristics, and an occasional bit of free oil. Some colors brush out long, others short and buttery and still others are thixotropic.
Pigment Color Code: PW2 / PW1 / PW26
Opacity/Transparency: Opaque
Tinting Strength: Medium
Lightfastness: N/A
Permanence: Permanent
Drying Rate: Approx. 2 - 5 Days
Binder: Linseed Oil
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
Note: Sale of this product is prohibited to any residents residing in the state of Minnesota under the Minnesota Statute 325E.3892.
- SKU Number
- RUB8112
- MSRP
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$31.70 / EA - Your Price
- $28.53 / EA
- Weight
- 0.40 LB
- Quantity Available
- 4
