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That really is a valuable piece of information. A few months ago I fell foul of the reverse of this problem when I was using acrylics. I had used opaque (titanium) white to cover an error hoping I could then paint over it with green - but it was a disaster - the white just shone through the green like an eery glow. I went onto the acrylics thread in a blind panic and the differences between opaques and transparents were explained to me. I now have a nice supply of titanium white and zinc My painting was saved thank goodness. When I read the title "whites" my antennae quivered (^) Your lucky students - of all the short courses I've done - never, has anyone discussed this subject.
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Good advice here, Dennis.
You may have twigged by now that I'm one who loves to complicate things ...but I'm absolutely with you on your advice to students. For those ancients among us, er, that'll be me and you, do you use Flake White these days? I nagged at Winsor and Newton to bring it, and Cremnitz White (also lead), back into their range - they now have, bless them, though I claim no credit for it; and I'm about to make a nuisance of myself with Daler-Rowney, too, on two grounds: one, they suit my way of working, and two, I hate to see valuable materials removed from painters because the EU says so... The only reason Flake and Cremnitz are in tins is because they're supposed to be more difficult to open than a tube, so the kiddywinks are protected. I wish any child luck in trying to unscrew my paint tubes, but never mind...
Lead is an insidious poison, not to be trifled with, but even so - I've used it for decades, and look at me!
Ah...... I think I've found the flaw in the argument....
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Whilst toxic in that it contains lead, I'm quite sure that swallowing any 'safe' paint would also prove harmful to ones health. What happened to common sense, if people are that stupid that they are likely to put there lives in danger with products such as these, perhaps it would be better if their genes were removed from the pool in any case! Overregulation on Health and Safety is just getting stupid. Yes of course your coffee is hot, you'd complain if it was cold!
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I've been using Flake White for over 40 years,and have recently bought some more: and I'm still alive too, more or less.
I think the Eurocrats want lead paint in tins, for fear the kiddywinks will seize artists' tubes, deftly remove the cap, and guzzle the lot. Well: if they do - I say, let 'em die! What are the little sods doing fiddling about with my paint anyway? Even my pet rat ran through my palette, cunningly colouring the carpet a delicate shade of Prussian Blue, but he would never have considered eating it. For God's sake, this was the rat that so scorned supermarket bacon that he took it from me, with withering contempt, took it to a corner of his cage, and widdled on it.
If a child is dopier than a rat, it deserves all that's coming to it; a merciful release, some might think. Well, I would, anyway. Loathsome little wretches......
What, I wonder, would they make - were they, in their dim-wit remoteness, aware of it - of Michael Harding's genuine Chinese Vermilion, made of compounds of Mercury? When did the state, in this case the super-state, conclude that it needed to police our every action as though we were children in a nursery? This isn't even New Labour: it precedes that - it's the corporate state creeping up on us like some ancient Nanny, shielding our gaze from nasty things, snatching our probing little fingers from electric sockets, shooing the bad doggie into the back room to share space with her ratbag of a father (sorry, personal element intruded there...) - oh it does make me cross.....
Had you guessed?
Lead-based oil paint is great: and you out there aren't buying enough of it because you're afraid of it. Overcome your pusillanimous fears! Beat back your feral children should they approach your tins with the intention of slurping it down like clotted cream (or alternatively, let the little wastes of space fill their wretched boots and watch them descend into idiocy: it's unlikely to be a long trip). Discover it, demand the wimpish bureaucrats allow its free availability, demand your freedom to paint with REAL paint and not synthetic, bland, substitutes.
I rest my case. I feel I've put it well, in a calm and measured fashion. The rest is up to you. I await the call to lead the revolution: you'll find my number in the phone book.
It is totally absurd. And I await the point at which the nervous little niminiy-piminy
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Fabuolous stuff, I applaud your attitude and will be the first to send a wreath when the painter's colic catches up with you.
Seriously though, paint is safe providing you follow some rules, but most don't which is why we can't use Mercury, Cadmium or Lead at the school. I use all of these in my private practice, but would hestitate in these litigionus times...
Inspired by your note, I'll knock up a good things to make and do with poisions thread for those of you sensible enough to use them safely
M
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