It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls. Does
anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be white.

"bryer" wrote in message
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It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls. Does
anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be white.

Blue is often added to white to make it appear whiter. It is probably OK.
Try a small spot if you have doubts.

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"bryer" wrote in message
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It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls.
Does anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be
white.

Blue is often added to white to make it appear whiter. It is probably
OK. Try a small spot if you have doubts.


Thanks, I did a test spot and I'll wait to see how it dries. I was hoping
it was some industry thing that I didn't know about.

blue makes white appear whiter, hmm

*note to self, go back to kindergarten and learn about colors again.

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"bryer" wrote in message
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It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of
gloss white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish
swirls. Does anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was
supposed to be white.

Blue is often added to white to make it appear whiter. It is
probably OK. Try a small spot if you have doubts.


Thanks, I did a test spot and I'll wait to see how it dries. I was
hoping it was some industry thing that I didn't know about.

blue makes white appear whiter, hmm

*note to self, go back to kindergarten and learn about colors again.

White is subjective. Look at a light bulb then look out the window at
sun light. The sun light is whiter and the light bulb looks yellow. At
night if you only have the light bulb to look at it will look white.

Even laundry detergent has "whiteners" in it. They emphasis the blue
end of the spectrum to make it look whiter.

If you look at a rainbow or any spectrum you will never see white or
black. White and black are really not colors.

If you compare your new paint to another can of paint that may be a
warmer white they will not look the same and one will look whiter or bluer
and the other will look warmer or yellowier.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

Black is the absence of color, but white is actually considered a color,
because it's a combination of all the colors in the spectrum.

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"bryer" wrote in message
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It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of
gloss white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish
swirls. Does anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was
supposed to be white.

Blue is often added to white to make it appear whiter. It is
probably OK. Try a small spot if you have doubts.


Thanks, I did a test spot and I'll wait to see how it dries. I was
hoping it was some industry thing that I didn't know about.

blue makes white appear whiter, hmm

*note to self, go back to kindergarten and learn about colors again.

White is subjective. Look at a light bulb then look out the window at
sun light. The sun light is whiter and the light bulb looks yellow. At
night if you only have the light bulb to look at it will look white.

Even laundry detergent has "whiteners" in it. They emphasis the blue
end of the spectrum to make it look whiter.

If you look at a rainbow or any spectrum you will never see white or
black. White and black are really not colors.

If you compare your new paint to another can of paint that may be a
warmer white they will not look the same and one will look whiter or bluer
and the other will look warmer or yellowier.

--
Joseph Meehan

Dia duit

Most white is made- tinted to grey tone for coverage. Few "white" go
with beige, you need to pick a "off white" for beige tones but there are
really a 100 shades of white paint. Most "white" go with blue -grey
tones since grey is what they as tinted to.

What is pure white.

bryer wrote:
It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls. Does
anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be white.


When it comes to "white" paint, there are hundreds of shades that vary
from cream to bluish to greenish. If there is a tint, the can should be
marked with the tint formula. Might also be separation of ingredients,
although I have never seen a blue solvent separate. Mix it up and if
the color looks good, use it.

a new IDEA here. Some white paints have a blue tint which disappears as the
paint dries. I notion is that when re-painting a white ceiling with white
paint it difficult to see where you have applied the new paint.

"bryer" wrote in message
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It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls. Does
anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be white.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"bryer" wrote in message

It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls. Does
anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be white.

Blue is often added to white to make it appear whiter. It is probably OK.
Try a small spot if you have doubts.

And oddly enough, in leatherworking you dye the leather blue before you
dye it black if you want the deepest blackest black.

You add blue to make white whiter and black blacker....that confuses
the **** out of me.

R

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"bryer" wrote in message
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It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of
gloss white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish
swirls. Does anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was
supposed to be white.

Blue is often added to white to make it appear whiter. It is
probably OK. Try a small spot if you have doubts.


Thanks, I did a test spot and I'll wait to see how it dries. I was
hoping it was some industry thing that I didn't know about.

blue makes white appear whiter, hmm

*note to self, go back to kindergarten and learn about colors again.

White is subjective. Look at a light bulb then look out the window at
sun light. The sun light is whiter and the light bulb looks yellow. At
night if you only have the light bulb to look at it will look white.

Or a regular light bulb vs. a halogen.

Even laundry detergent has "whiteners" in it. They emphasis the blue
end of the spectrum to make it look whiter.

Those "whiteners" are often bluing. Remember when blueing was
added to laundry? Ever heard of "blue-hairs"? ;-)

If you look at a rainbow or any spectrum you will never see white or
black. White and black are really not colors.

True, but they may be pigments. White is the presence of all
colors of light (additive), black is the presensce of all colors of
pigments (subtractive).

If you compare your new paint to another can of paint that may be a
warmer white they will not look the same and one will look whiter or bluer
and the other will look warmer or yellowier.

I've also seen paints that have a blue cast until dry. The tint is
used so it's easier to tell where you've already painted.

--
Keith

"Keith Williams" wrote in message
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I've also seen paints that have a blue cast until dry. The tint is
used so it's easier to tell where you've already painted.

And where you still need to paint :-)

bryer wrote:
It's been a while since I painted anything. I just opened a can of gloss
white acrylic latex to use on door moldings and I see bluish swirls. Does
anyone know if this is normal? I thought white was supposed to be white.



Color (or colour) perception isn't as simple as we may think it is.

This site's examples blew me away the first time I visited it:

http://tinyurl.com/3ovoq

I didn't really believe them until I used an image processing program to
cut out little pieces of the "same color" sections and paste them side
by side on a white background. Yikes!

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."

Dad "enhanced" his white hair with Mrs. Wrights bluing and suffered
'til it wore out. The bluing, not the hair.

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:22:39 -0500, Keith Williams
wrote:

Those "whiteners" are often bluing. Remember when blueing was
added to laundry? Ever heard of "blue-hairs"? ;-)

Yes normal , especially for anything labelled Bright or ultrawhite.

Make sure you mix it completely in the can. It should look white if
completely mixed.