{"id":9671,"date":"2021-07-17T19:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2021-07-17T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T00:29:18","slug":"blue-ridges-cremintz-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/blue-ridges-cremintz-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ridge’s cremintz white"},"content":{"rendered":"

The brands I use most often for the all-import flake white are RGH, Blue Ridge, and Utrecht. I crossed Utrecht off the list after discovering that they’ve added zinc to their Flemish white. I don’t buy the premier brands–Blockx, and Old Holland–anymore because the small manufacturers provide excellent paint at reasonable prices. Blockx is $92 for a 200mm tube. Old Holland is twice as expensive! A 150ml tube from Blue Ridge is $45<\/a>. <\/p>\n

When I buy RGH flake I use it exclusively until it’s gone. The cans that RGH puts their paint in cause the paint to dry faster than tube paint. When I recently exhausted my supply of RGH, I bought two tubes of Bluie Ridge cremintz white.<\/p>\n

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The Blue Ridge white is stiffer than the RGH version. RGH has more tinting strength; it takes more Blue Ridge white to make a middle-gray than it does RGH. Unless the effect is excessive, this is not a bad thing. Titanium white is the strongest tinting white, which is why so many titanium-made paintings look chalky. Avoid titanium. The Blue Ridge cremintz white reminds me a little of Old Holland cremintz white. OH adulterates their lead with zinc and calls it cremintz white–bah. The Blue Ridge cremintz handles better than the similarly named stuff from OH.<\/p>\n

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The painting cups in today’s sessions contain the usual assortment. Medium in the left-most cup; linseed oil next used to soak brushes when I set them down; turp, and then OMS. Next, RGH atelier oil 1:2 in turp is used for (infrequent) glazes and open passages. The last cup contains black oil and turp 1:2 used for glazes and close work. It’s darker than the atelier version–I use it rarely. Glazes should be light.<\/p>\n

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The brands I use most often for the all-import flake white are RGH, Blue Ridge, and Utrecht. I crossed Utrecht off the list after discovering that they’ve added zinc to their Flemish white. I don’t buy the premier brands–Blockx, and Old Holland–anymore because the small manufacturers provide excellent paint at reasonable prices. 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