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Titanium White Buff

PW6:1

Pigment Description

Natural Titanium Dioxide bound with Ferric Oxides. This often has a buff or oyster shell color that can be nice in realistic painting. Buff Titanium as it is often called has reportedly high lightfastness, however Golden found a few anomalies in some of their lightfastness testing.

Resources

PW6:1 pigment data from David G. Myers, The Color of Art Pigment Database, Artiscreation.com

Rossol, Monona. The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide. New York, NY : Allworth Press, 2001. The book is rather dated, updated information is available from her website.

Stats

Lightfastness

Very Good but can vary

Though this tends to be rated as excellent for lightfastness, we have heard reports of it darkening

Transparency

Opaque

Tinting

Medium

Dry Time

Fast to Medium

Some dry in 2-7 days, others in 1-2 days

Chemical Name

Titanium Dioxide with iron oxide, may contain additional impurities

TiO₂ with iron oxide

with PW6:1 (Titanium White Buff)
No single-pigment Oil found with PW6:1

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