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Flakey is good
Using flake white and linseed oil will provide you with a paint film which can be covered the following day. Adding other whites to the flake will retard the drying and are probably best added in the upper layers.
Although many champion the use of a wide variety of modern mediums there is no absolute certainty of how they will hold up in the long run. A lot of very good artists are quite vehement in defending what they mix into their paint but In my own experience whatever mediums I've used have never, to my eye, affected the look of my paintings.
It is the continuity of hand to brush that effects what I create on the canvas. Too many are looking for THE easy answer, but unfortunately, mediums can
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