“Basic lead carbonate. A warm, buttery white with a beautiful sheen like pearls. Very flexible. The white is least prone to cracking when used thickly.” “Flake White is our most dense white. Made with linseed oil, it has a warm color quality that is off-white from the tube and provides a sun soaked, natural warmth to color mixtures. It has a medium to low tinting strength, which allows mixtures to maintain their color identity without washing them out. The benefit of having less tinting strength in a white, is that larger quantities of mixed color can be made that contain more white than color, but still have good chroma. In many cases, this can provide a cost savings, but also, Flake White has good drying qualities and aging properties that it will lend to any mixture. Flake White produces a hard but flexible film and can contribute durability to an oil painting. Flake is an excellent general purpose white. It’s a great choice for the initial layers of an extended painting. It can also be used for underpainting, grisaille or for color mixing in the upper layers. Flake’s semi-opacity and moderate tinting strength is especially nice when applying finishing touches where colorful mixtures really need to sing. Note on lead toxicity – lead can enter body through ingestion, inhalation of pigment particles and through broken skin.  This product is safe when used as intended by professional artists. Paintings containing Flake White should not be sanded.” -Just Paint, 2020 -Williamsburg