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Seven Unused & Unwanted Tubes of Rublev Lead White No. 1 for Sale
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I have seven 50ml tubes of Rublev Lead White No. 1 (in linseed oil) for sale. The tubes are unopened & unused; stored in the boxes in which they were sent to me (from The Supreme Paint Co. in London) last year. The boxes are stored on end---cap side of tube downward.
I'll never use 'em.
Say . . . twenty-five quid a tube, or £150 the lot.
Say . . . twenty-five quid a tube, or £150 the lot.
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Had grand ideas about painting in oils. Did a bit---but it's not for me. I'm going to return to what I used to do years ago---watercolour. My favourite watercolourist was the late Ray Campbell Smith. Here's one I did using Ray's limited palette of five colours---bar Winsor Blue, which I never liked.
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I'm wondering if you really gave oils a fair try, but that's for you to decide - I use oil, watercolour, and acrylic, and have never really been able to decide between them; but wouldn't want to be without any of them. Anyway: still waiting for Alan Bickley to respond, and I rather hope he does because I know he'd find good use for your paint. But if he doesn't want it - I'll buy it. Rublev is a great brand. If I bought them, I'd probably have enough lead white to last me for the rest of my life, what with being 75 years old next month...... Gawd, time flies !
Winsor Blue - yes, Ray Campbell-Smith DID use it, as you say: it's a fierce colour - it's Pthalo Blue, of course - and an invasive one; but more versatile than I once gave it credit for - I used it in a little twilight painting, and found it worked very well: you've just got to keep it in bounds - using a tiny little bit with water or white paint, depending on your medium. But there are plenty of other blues if you just don't get on with it.
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I made a composition for a 17th century style flower piece done after the manner of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder (1573-1621). I tried out a small selection of oils for that piece. But I must say, having tried them, I much prefer the ease, cleanliness, and convenience of watercolour.
Robert, I wish you a premature happy 75th birthday for next month. I shall be 65 next year and plan to retire. Working unsociable hours doing a busy home-care round, keeping house, and looking after my moggy, Polly, has not given me the time I'd like to devote to painting.
For my new project I've eschewed lavish expenditure and bought a small selection of Jackman's Professional Watercolours in 5ml tubes including the old favourite, French Ultramarine, and Prussian Blue. If that needs taming it can be done with the addition of lamp black and a crimson.
Winsor & Newton whole pans don't seem the same as they used to be (They're Colart now). Genuine W&N pans had a beautiful smell of phenol. That's gone. You could also take off the wrappers without leaving paper fibres stuck to the colour !
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Thanks for the birthday wishes, Tom - and W & N aren't what they were; I think they've fallen behind in paint technology, where US firms have stormed ahead; though we also have Michael Harding's paints, and another whose name I've just this second forgotten! ** That's age, and something you can look forward to....** Wallace Seymour - I think!
I have to say that W & N still makes great acrylics - just as a corrective to myself. And I still use their watercolours - just not often enough. Jacksons' paints are generally excellent.
But I'm running on now, which I have a tendency to do: if Alan Bickley isn't interested in your paint, I'll certainly buy it from you.
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You’re right Robert, I don’t have any lead white left. I would be interested but not enough to stump up £150… more like half that number, so I’ll pass this one over to you good sir!
I’ve recently bought 4x W&N artists 200ml tubes of titanium white from my art club at a good price, so, albeit not a patch on lead white, it needs to be used up first.
Moving to watercolours now… fairly recently (when Dawn was at the helm), I was given a half-pan set of W&N Artists watercolours to try out and write a test report for The Artist magazine.
To be honest, I was surprised as to how good they were, I can’t fault them and would certainly recommend them.
If the fiddly wrappers are stuck on the paint, I would suggest that it’s how they’ve been stored, I didn’t have any issues.
I’ve not tried Jackson’s own brand of watercolours, so no comment from me about them, depends on where they are sourcing them from… but Jackson’s don’t sell rubbish so they’re bound to be good!
I have, however, written a report on Jackson’s own brand oils, not their professional range, and I can’t speak highly enough of them. I’m always recommending them.
I’ve also got a few of their professional tubes and again, top class.
Good luck with your watercolour journey Tom, a great medium and also a favourite of mine - steady with the Prussian blue mind you, much care needed.
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My goal at some stage, is to do an oil flower painting in the Dutch C17th style. I was in Stratford upon Avon last week and strolled into a small gallery which had two such paintings, by two individual 20th century artists, both passed on now. I'll put the photos I have up here when I get to my phone. I think they were upwards of £14k each.
Re the large tubes of Titanium, Alan, I've decided they're a false economy. I've got two to get through, which won't take that long as there's always too much that gets squeezed onto the palette, no matter how I try.
Cecil Kennedy
Better images can be found online at LambertFineArt
I did ask for permission to photograph
ps they had Russel Flints, Ken Howard's etc all worth a glance
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Norette,
Mr Clayton and Mr Kennedy---sounds like a building society ! Exceedingly fine work. Very nice.
Robert/Alan,
The small selection of colours I have on order are Jackman's. They're hand made---in England---by a young chap called Marc Jackman. He started up six years ago, I believe in his dad's garage. They look to be very nice. His products have received enthusiastic reviews. Am looking forward to trying them; never used tube watercolour before.
As for the lead white: Let me know---at your convenience---how you wish to proceed.
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Tom…I referred to Jackson’s, which is Jackson’s Art, thinking that Jackmans was a typo error!
I’ve not come across this new brand of watercolours I must admit, sounds interesting through.
I like tubes if I’m working in the studio. I use a square of white melamine and squeeze a reasonable sized blob of the paints out which will obviously harden, but always remains workable with water - just keep adding more paint as and when needed…zero waste!