Lead White #2

Product Details:

50 ml (1.69 fl oz) tube

Rublev Colours Lead White #2 ground in filtered, pale walnut oil is an opaque white that is slightly stiff and buttery. Lead White #2 is a brighter white than our first lead white, because of the paler walnut oil.

Our lead white is made with pale walnut oil and basic lead carbonate (made according to modern processes) without stearates or fillers to alter the characteristics of the pigment. As a result you get higher pigment volume concentration (PVC) than other brands of lead white (flake white) -- as high as 50%. This means most brands of flake white in oversized tubes do not weigh nearly as much as Rublev Colours 50 ml tube. Yet, Rublev Colours Lead White is not overly stiff and mixes well with all other oil colors.

Lead white is the most common white found on the old masters' palette. Lead pigments have been made artificially since antiquity, although health concerns of lead poisoning has greatly diminished its role in paint today.

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Rublev Colours Artists' Oil Lead White
Note: Colors swatches are shown in mass tone, straight from the tube, on the left, and mixed with an equal amount of Titanium white on the right. All pictures of color swatches in this web site are only approximations of the actual color of the oil paint. We taken every care to match the color in these pictures on calibrated color monitors to the actual color. However, because of the wide variance in color monitors the results you get may vary.

Color Names
Common Names:	English: lead white (sometimes white lead) French: blanc de plomb German: Bleiweiss Italian: bianco (biacca) di plombo Spanish: plombo blanco
Alternate Names:	English: Berlin white, cerusa (or cerrussa), Cremnitz white, flake white, hydrocerussite (modern mineralogical name), Kremnitz white, Krems white, silver white, slate white, Vienna white

Color Information
Single Pigment:	Lead White
Binder:	Walnut Oil
Pigment Information
Color:	White
Colour Index:	Pigment White 1 (77597)
Chemical Name:	Basic Lead Carbonate
Chemical Formula:	2PbCO3.Pb(OH)2
Properties
ASTM Lightfastness:	I
Opacity:	Opaque
Hiding Power:	Moderately High
Drying Rate:	Fast

WARNING: POISONOUS! MAY BE HARMFUL IF SWALLOWED. Contains Basic Lead Carbonate. Avoid ingestion and skin contact. Wear protective clothing and gloves to prevent contact with broken skin. Never use near children or pets. Conforms to ASTM D 4236.

Note: Some separation of pigment and oil may occur in Rublev Colours Artists' Oils and is a natural process when no stabilizers are added to paint to prevent this from occurring.

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