{"id":9139,"date":"2020-11-30T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9139"},"modified":"2021-01-19T15:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:26:04","slug":"ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/ugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using flake white from Utrecht a lot. Lately, I’ve run into the same problem, namely, tubes with excessive oil content. When I open a fresh tube, a lake of oil pours out. That is what happened with the last tube I opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see what I mean in this photo. I placed the palette upright to take a photo<\/a>. When I later retrieved it, I discovered the white had flowed down the palette’s length. That also happened with a light gray I mixed. None of the other colors slumped this badly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Excessive oil renders the paint useless for my purposes. It robs the paint of body, as you can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m kicking myself because I broke my rule that limits buying one tube at a time. I have 2 new Utrecht flake whites in my drawer. The last time I broke my rule I was also burned. Both tubes of Winsor & Newton flake white were partially dried. The tubes had chunks of dried paint throughout–useless. Soon afterward, W&N stopped making the all-important flake white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of tube requested by commenter Ed Ed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been using flake white from Utrecht a lot. Lately, I’ve run into the same problem, namely, tubes with excessive oil content. When I open a fresh tube, a lake of oil pours out. That is what happened with the last tube I opened. You can see what I mean in this photo. 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