a guide to non toxic and eco friendly oil painting 🌳 no solvents! ✨ vegan art supplies

[@marcjasi]

This is a great video! If I may mention two points: About pigments, the Cadmium pigments or Cobalt, are used in oils as well as in acrylic and watercolor. Most of them are toxic when in powder form. When coming out of a paint tube, unless you eat the paint, in well ventilated room, you should be totally safe to use them in my experience, with gloves you are good to go. About oil to clean the brush, this is wonderful, but I would not recommend to use cooking oil, these are non drying oils, if it stays on your brush, its going to create a mess on your next painting. They also are not refine oils. Use only oils that are made for fine art, again, in my experience and opinion. Hope this helps. Great video thank you!

[@lharrisonart]

Thank you for this information! Super valuable and good to know 😊

[@candidcrafter]

This was very imformative. I don't see many people talking about eco friendly paints. I purposely chose watercolors to be as eco friendly as possible but this video showed me that oil painting can be non toxic and earth friendly too 🤗

[@lharrisonart]

Thank you! I'm so glad you found it helpful! ❤

[@chloelikesihop]

Thank you for this! I have been a bit nervous to switch into oil painting from acrylic. I love the idea of having a longer working time and the feel of oil is so different but the clean up and the toxicity of standard art practices freaked me out. You answered so many questions I had and there were just so many great tips throughout the video. Seriously, thank you so much!

[@lharrisonart]

You are so welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@HealTheWorldwithMJ]

Thanks for the video! Unfortunately watermixable oils are even more harmful to the environment because the paintwater ends up going down the drain. Sennellier's 'Green for Oils' medium and solvents are completely nontoxic and plantbased. Also last a very long time because you can recycle (the paint falls to the bottom so the solvent on the top stays clear.) Schmincke's Akademie Oils are heavy metal free and vegan. 💓🌍🐾🥰

[@lharrisonart]

Thank you! I'll look into those two :) x

[@hello-i-am-shai]

hii, thank youu :D!! i just started getting into oil paints but i had no idea if what i was doing was good for me and/or the environment so this really helped!!

[@lharrisonart]

I'm glad this helped, thanks for watching!

[@sea.of.feathers]

Great video! Just please don't store the paint open in a fridge of food, especially with open ice cubes containers!! The paint still evaporates even when cold, and all your food may contain bad fumes..

[@ratherpaint]

A very useful and interesting video. Excellent presentation. Thank you. I'm about to make the switch to water-soluble oils from water colors and acrylics (I've never used regular oils) but I haven't been able to find out if the fire risk is the same with them as with regular oil paints. I know that rags or paper towels soaked with paint or just oil can catch fire as the oils oxidize. But I haven't been able to find out if the risk is mitigated by the emulsifier or surfactant added that makes them water soluble. I suppose if I had a paper towel with oily paint on it, for instance, i could wet the paper completely before discarding it. In that case, I guess the paint would go through two stages of drying: first the water would evaporate and then oxidation of the oils would begin and you are back to a fire risk. Not a very satisfying solution. Any ideas?

[@robdomeart]

I'm starting too with regular oils from watercolor, gouache and acrylics and as well concerned about the issues like toxicity and fire hazard. There are tons of different opinions online on the topic. I found the most frequent advices are to let your rags/paper towels to dry laying flat and then dispose of them, or to use an airtight metal container to prevent the presence of oxygen promoting a fire. However, and I'm not completely sure as I don't have the product myself, I've read somewhere that the water-mixable linseed oil doesn't have the label for fire hazard, worth double checking at a local store though. Did you end up switching? how has your experience been so far?

[@jenniferlovattstudio5117]

I would send an email to Jackson's - they are very good at providing useful info!

[@ossi2635]

Aaaaand another video about solventfree oilpainting without showing the sennerlier green for oil products. I don't understand why they don't push their line more, because it seems to work fine, but so many people don't know them. (if the dryingtimes are ridicolous you're using way to much of the medium) & don`t forget... things like cobalt & cadmium don't suddenly become more or less healthy if you use another medium like watercolor or pastell. (at least I wonder why always only oilpainters point that out)

[@lharrisonart]

I'll have a look into Sennerlier Green, thank you! x

[@thehappypotter9612]

Thanks for great info! Now I know where to look for the pigment info, and I am very pleased to learn that Norma Blue is vegan-friendly. I have been looking for information about solvent-free oil-painting practices, as I want to change back to oils after having switched to acrylics for a number of years. Acrylics, however, are said to contain formaldehyde as a preservative and therefore there is a constant off-gassing issue. Have you got info on that?

[@lharrisonart]

I'm glad you found the video helpful, thank you for watching! ❤ Acrylic paint and some Gouache paint release formaldehyde as they dry, yes! It's recommended to keep these in a well-ventilated room because of that, but from what I've seen the toxicity is quite minimal as long as you don't consume any of the paint 😄

[@sujanithtottempudi2991]

Water mixable oils arent aame as oils. They are quite tacky despite their own mediums. I tried them a lot. They arent very saturated too

[@o0Daisy0o]

You managed to give the answer I’ve been looking for! I’ve been trying to find out how to clean your brush between switching colours and paint thinner alternative for months!! Can you also use vegetable oil to thin your paint for underpainting? Thank you x

[@plaru5194]

Only use artist oils when painting.

[@jc-aguilar]

Technically you could but you shouldn’t. The reason is because those oils never dry and will stay in your brush causing it to mix with the oils in your paints. Those oils are not tested for interaction with pigments, canvas, paper, etc. So, who knows what they will do to the longevity of your paints. The recommendation is to use the same oil as the oil used in your paints or the oil you use as a medium. Use oil to clean your brushes that you know it’s okay to get into your paints. As you can see not even for cleaning it’s recommended to use non-artist grade oil, much less for underpaintings or anything related to painting. You will also have a hard time learning and improving your skills if you don’t use the right tools for the job.

[@jillkama7614]

Miscible!