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Posted by Tim Rudd on March 11, 19100 at 19:13:16:

In Reply to: Re: Winsor Newton Oils posted by Kyle Stevens on March 11, 19100 at 00:03:58:

: the pigments are washed thoroughly, this is very important when combining cadmiums with lets say lead white, old holland pigments are not so carefully washed, I wrote the gentleman who owns old holland and he said his pigments such as cadmiums and leads should not be mixed,they turn black over time, just one example of the difference in the two... :

This is kind of odd, as I've never encountered this problem using Old Holland. My only complaint (if you could call it that) to-date has been that their ochres seem to be milled, well, for weeks at a time, as they lack the texture of other brands. Perhaps Rob has some input on the Cadmium/Lead White problems you reference.

For most of my colors I use Blockx because they're a little more buttery yet still quite heavily pigmented, perhaps this is due to the Poppy oil they're ground in. It's sad they're not readily available in many markets. Although I do use a couple Sennelier colors, for the most part they're too oily and gloppy (i.e. not mixed enough, Ultramarine is the worst offender).

Just to fly off on a tangent, does anyone know what on earth W&N and Sennelier are doing to their lead whites? W&N Cremnitz White is oily and stringy and just slides off the palette onto the floor. Perhaps I should forget using an easel, no? Sennelier's Flake White seems to dry in the tube pretty consisently. Could they be adding siccatives to lead white?

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