Posts Tagged ‘Flake white’
Making Flake white
Historical records show flake white has been a favorite of painters for its flexibility and permanence since the advent of oil painting. Portrait painters in particular enjoy the warmer hue as opposed to titanium that tends to be cooler in nature.
Natural Pigments, a suppier of paints, pigments, and other professional art supplies manufactures lead white through a method called the Dutch process, or (stack process).
For artists lead white is becoming increasingly more difficult to find and companies like Natural Pigments are making limited quantities.
To see a modern day method of the Dutch process at the Natural Pigments website, Click here;
http://www.naturalpigments.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000027;p=1
