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L. S. Lowry The Unheard Tapes
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Titanium white would be more likely - perhaps it WAS that; the human memory is a fallible instrument. If I can find that broadcast I might give it another listen - but if when I do, and find I was wrong and you were right, I will very probably keep quiet about it..... no point in rubbing one's own nose in it.......
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Sorry Robert I was not trying to be cleaver are anything. I just wanted to put the facts right. You might have something though because Lowry said he never used Titanium white. But something might have been said about flake white so i will look it up if the program is still available tonight. I was a book on a shelf once and the title NO ONE IS EVER WRONG. I never got to look inside the book as I was in someone else’s home as the time. But the title is right because its all a question of ones stand point👀👍 Back to me painting now.
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I reviewed the fake or fortune on Lowry, and enjoyed watching it the second time around. The evidence to prove Lowry did use titanium white was in the photo in which five boxes of it can be seen on his studio table along with his usual flake white. This fact upheld the authenticity of the Darby and Joan painting painted in 1957 in which Titanium was found. Everyone is a winner because the experts say the flake white was the ground first applied which they say is unusual because it dries very slowly and another white put over that would later cause cracking. Hmm not to good when you hand out umpteen thousands for a crack up.
So the result is Colonel Mustard in the studio with the Titanium piping. Gotcha
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The only snag with that is that Flake White does NOT dry very slowly - it dries fast; whereas Titanium White is notorious for staying wet for a long time. The one thing we can be sure of is that he wouldn't have used the aforementioned Zinc White as a ground, because it's very slow drying, as of course he would have known, and that it causes delamination (sometimes) which he might not have known. Titanium over Flake shouldn't cause cracking either - depending on the thickness of layers and the time taken for previous layers to cure. I'd suggest, tentatively, that he probably mixed Flake White with Titanium - which would make sense - and added colder highlights with strait Titanium, or more likely, Titanium mixed with Zinc, as in many cases it is, in the tube.
Pity we can't ask him ...
Plots thicken....