Michael Harding Oil Paints Update
Michael Harding updates the news on their lead white oil colours:
“As you may know there has been considerable difficulty in getting a high quality lead white into the market. To address the concern I have taken two approaches. One approach is to make the pigment myself and the other is to buy the best industrial available lead. I have opted to take both options so that I may provide artists with the price and quality to suit their needs.
In order to achieve handmade “stack” lead white I follow the old masters formula. Lead is suspended over vinegar in a container and then buried in horse dung. This method is repeated layer after layer hence the term “stack”. The process itself takes many months to create the highest quality lead pigments. My process began spring of 2012. Initial findings of my handmade stack appear to be a great success as trials are going extremely well. We will be scaling it up here in the UK and will have limited quantities available in December with commercially available supply in January 2013. My good friends, portrait artists Leo Mancini-Hresko (Boston based) and Rupert Alexander (London based), have tested it and in their words they found it “awesome” and “oh joy of joys.” David Leffel and Jeremy Lipking are currently evaluating my handmade stack lead white also.
To address a commercial grade Cremnitz and Flake white we have (at last) found industrial produced lead carbonate that meets our standards. We hope to have stock available by January 2013.”
Michael Harding oil colours on the Jackson’s Art website.
Michael Harding Handmade Oil Colours website.
2 thoughts on “Michael Harding Lead White update”
i would like to buy your stack lead white,i now this old hollands lead white,i am an painter from Holland,what is the prise of that stack white,i now we cannot buy that in tube here in Europe
Hi Marcellus.
Customer services will send you an email about this.
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