Digital BW, The Print

TiO2 has been the pigment used in virtually all white paints  for quite some
years.  The reason for its being the prime white pigment in the paint
industry is it¹s stability and lack of reactivity even when exposed to all
kinds of noxious environmental pollutants. Its lack of reactivity is also
why it is a safe pigment that provides no danger to the painter or for that
matter the owner of the property that has been painted. I have used  pounds
of it in making panels for my wife¹s egg tempera paintings. Some painters
prefer lead based whites due to their creamy consistency and flow on the
canvas but they can and do discolor over time and as with all lead based
pigments they are inherently dangerous and less than stable.

Roger


On 11/9/08 6:50 PM, "Richard Smallfield" <r.smallfield@...>
wrote:

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> Interesting - maybe he got the wrong molecule! He definitely said TiO2 in the
> podcast on the Luminous Landscape.
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> Richard
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