{"id":9644,"date":"2021-07-06T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T20:58:45","slug":"utrecht-is-dead-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/utrecht-is-dead-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Utrecht is dead to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flake white is critical for oil painting. I buy flake white from RGH, Blue Ridge, and (occasionally) Utrecht. I discovered this past weekend that Utrecht doesn’t sell flake white any longer. This unwanted discovery kills the Utrecht brand for me. Their oil paint is decidedly on the low-end of professional brands. Except for their flake white, they don’t produce a single color I consider exceptional. <\/p>\n

Even the comparable Rembrandt brand makes one color I enjoy. I like the transparency of Rembrant’s raw umber.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Smooth Move—Smooth Painting Surfaces<\/span><\/a><\/div>

When my tubes of Utrecht flake white run out, that’s it. The flake wite on today’s palette is among the last of its kind. <\/p>\n

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Flake white is critical for oil painting. I buy flake white from RGH, Blue Ridge, and (occasionally) Utrecht. I discovered this past weekend that Utrecht doesn’t sell flake white any longer. This unwanted discovery kills the Utrecht brand for me. Their oil paint is decidedly on the low-end of professional brands. Except for their flake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":9218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[208,24],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-9644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-shop_talk","tag-flake-white"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ut-white.jpg?fit=200%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6728,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/review-utrecht-oils\/","url_meta":{"origin":9644,"position":0},"title":"Review: Utrecht oils","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's hard for me to understand this but until this week I never used Utrecht brand oils. \u00a0I'm not sure why this is. \u00a0I've visited their shops in NYC and Cleveland and ordered plenty of other things from them. \u00a0True, I was disappointed with the easel I bought from them,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "materials"","block_context":{"text":"materials","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/materials\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/utrecht-tubes.gif?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/utrecht-tubes.gif?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/utrecht-tubes.gif?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/utrecht-tubes.gif?fit=800%2C538&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8804,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/rgh-vs-utrecht\/","url_meta":{"origin":9644,"position":1},"title":"RGH vs Utrecht","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A reader asks wether I prefer Utrecht flake white or RGH's. 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