Michael Harding Premium Oil Color: Stack Lead White 40ml

The handling quality of Stack Lead White is completely different from industrially made lead white. It possesses a quality known as “thixotropic” or what seasoned painters refer to as ‘ropey’, which means the texture becomes more fluid as it is agitated with a brush or palette knife. Before the paint has been manipulated it is very dense; it can even support a palette knife upright. After the paint has been agitated its consistency changes to short wisps of paint. Continuing to manipulate the paint it starts to become “ropier” and produces long stringy wisps of paint. The addition of texture multiplies the possibilities for complexity and subtlety in the whites of a painting.