Disposal & Safety of Oil Painting Materials | Beginner's Guide

✩ Welcome! ✭ We are talking about disposal and safety of oil painting materials today! I'm going over solvents, oils, mediums, paint scrapings, palettes, rags and towels, and everything else! This is the go-to beginner's guide and perfect if you're confused about how to properly care for the chemicals in your art studio!
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[@krisgoodie]

Thank you so much for these tips! I’m a beginner oil painter and cleaning/disposing feels overwhelming. Now I’m a little more confident about how to handle cleanup.

[@hayleyhawkins]

I'm so happy this was helpful!! Wishing you well on your painting journey :)

[@kamrongopffarth]

Thank you! I’ve been all over the internet finding conflicting information about when you need to take oil paint/solvent to hazardous waste and when you don’t-this made everything “click,” per say.

[@hayleyhawkins]

So happy to hear!!! I know it can be soo confusing at first!

[@catchinghorses]

Answering my prayers! I set my oils aside because of all these issues. 😭No other medium can do what oils do. And I love the smell of them.

[@hayleyhawkins]

I know they are the best aren't they? I keep trying acrylic again and I'm like nope...the texture and richness cannot compare!! 😍

[@Iwanttodrawachicken]

Great advice. Recycling old solvents is easy here. Recycling centre, the dump, hardware shops, and even most art stores will collect it for the Recycling paint programme. There is a lot of concern about water quality and fish spawning here that they make it as easy as possible for people to do the right thing with their paint waste.

[@angelcajigasarbelo3234]

Thank you so much for these tips! These are super helpful especially having a home studio!

[@hayleyhawkins]

So happy they were helpful!!🙂🙂

[@christinegalysh7433]

Thank you. this is a very helpful video. It can be overwhelming when you dont know what to do to keep everyone the environment too, safe. All the best.

[@hayleyhawkins]

So happy to help! Thanks so much :)

[@patricialehtola9924]

Very helpful, this was exactly what I needed to know.

[@hayleyhawkins]

So glad it was helpful !!!!

[@dukas1874]

Now I remember why I never took an oil class in the 90’s but I took acrylics. Well, this Tuesday I started oil classes so I thank you for all this info 🙏🏻

[@hayleyhawkins]

Yes exactly!! 😂 that’s so exciting, hope you’re loving the classes so far!!

[@Zoomlenial]

You rock! It's so hard to find clear info on this stuff.

[@hayleyhawkins]

So happy to help! I agree, it can be very confusing!

[@boyandbelugee]

Oh that’s scary! We are glad we found your video! Thank you!

[@hayleyhawkins]

Thank you for watching!! :)

[@albral1]

Thank you. I put dirty paper towels in a jar filled with water. Until that jar is full the oil is cured and you can empty the jar into a bag and put it into the trash or you bring the jar to your local dumpster/recycling yard.

[@hayleyhawkins]

Great ideas, thank you for sharing!

[@_.samantha._]

Did you know you can actually recycle the sludge? Just collect some of it and you can add paint medium then use a pallet knife and a paint muller and you will have made more paint! It's usually a brown or grey btw

[@hayleyhawkins]

I actually did learn this very recently from a youtube video and it BLEW my mind!! I want to start trying it soon!

[@stephanieregal]

I had no idea I should wait to throw out my paper towels thank you for this

[@hayleyhawkins]

Happy to help!! 🙂

[@laurenb4738]

Thank you so much for this video! So, using linseed oil with oil paints, do I need to worry about it being a fire hazard on the canvas, mixing palette, or brushes? I love painting and wanted to try out oil paints, but the “combustible” warning on all the oil mediums has me a bit freaked out.

[@hayleyhawkins]

Hi! Nothing to worry about with the brushes and canvas luckily! Basically, the only situation where things are combustible is if you have a pile of oil (such as on paint rags) that is drying, and the pile cant “breathe”. With the mixing palette - if it’s paper, let it dry before throwing in the trash. If it’s glass, just scrape it once it’s dry. It’s scary in the beginning but you’ll get the hang of it soon - just let paint towels dry fully (& laid flat by themselves) before throwing away - those are the main tips! Wishing you well on your painting journey!! 🩷

[@sinrise6237]

Hi!! I’m just recently going from acrylic to oil paints, and I don’t want to use solvents, can I use oils like baby oil or vegetable oil to clean my brushes? And can I dispose them in the trash? Thank you for this video!

[@FyreHeartStudios]

Hi! I'm doing all of this research too! I don't hink baby oil would be wise, but I do believe that safflower oil can be used to clean brushes. I'd look into that one. (I'm doing that myself) I do think they still need to dry before you can throw them away, but unlike linseed oil, safflower isn't going to spontaneously combust. (It's possible but the oxidation rate is MUCH slower than that of linseed so it's just not going to happen if you lay them flat or hang the rags/towels to dry)

[@hayleyhawkins]

Hi there! Great question :) so baby oil and all mineral oils - those are non drying oils. You dont want to ever mix these with oil paint. Only drying oils such as safflower, linseed, walnut etc. that are made for oil painting. Don’t use grocery store oils either like vegetable oils because the compounds are not suitable for painting. With baby or mineral oil - you can use these to clean your brushes after painting as they work well for that but you must wash well with soap & water after! Hope that helps!!😊😊

[@sinrise6237]

@@hayleyhawkinsthank you so much, I didn’t expect oil paint to have so many rules since acrylic is easier, but I’m doing my research!!

[@sinrise6237]

@@FyreHeartStudiosthank you!!!

[@LifeLostSoul]

Linseed oil can spontaneously combust as it cures because the curing process puts off heat, similar to how resin gets hot as it cures. This is also an issue for woodworkers and fires happen all the time from this. There is a proper rag disposal procedure. It's not recommended to leave an item that can spontaneously combust on a flammable surface like cardboard.... And adding more heat like putting it in the sun. It's recommended to keep them in an airtight container so there is no oxygen to feed the fire. As well as like 5 other steps.

[@risanto9722]

what if there's no hazardous waste nearby to throw oil paint waste

[@hayleyhawkins]

I mention in the video around 8 minutes, if you don't want to drive to hazardous waste with your paint sludge, you can let it dry on a piece of plywood or cardboard then throw it out when it's fully dry!

[@kennethaquino8352]

thanks for sharing do this work in water soluble oil paint?

[@hayleyhawkins]

Hi there - the process is similar for water soluble! Throw away your paint palette or scrapings after they've dried as mentioned in this video, wait for towels to fully dry before throwing them in the trash. Wipe excess paint off of your brush onto a towel and then use water to wash it. Reuse the water jar until you can't any longer then recycle at a local center.

[@kennethaquino8352]

@@hayleyhawkins hello maam thanks that is one of the reason why iam reluctant to try oil paint because our area here in the Phillippines is poorly ventilated,thats why i stick to Charcoal Instead❤️🇵🇭🇺🇸

[@hayleyhawkins]

@@kennethaquino8352 i totally get that, that is tough to deal with!! I would recommend trying gouache or watercolor too! 🩷

[@kennethaquino8352]

@@hayleyhawkins thank you maam godbless🇵🇭🇺🇸❤️

[@pegjov4906]

Um this is kinda true linseed oil rags can combust if left in a ball .

[@hayleyhawkins]

Yep that’s what I talk about in the video😊

[@LifeLostSoul]

Not only 'can' they combust. It is so incredibly common for linseed oil rags to combust. Because the curing process of linseed oil puts off heat. There are also so many videos of people demonstrating. How combustible these rags are by putting them in cardboard boxes.

[@gingerbaird5064]

Oil paint even if dried is hazardous waste! Please do not dispose of it in a normal trash can!

[@katew108]

@@hayleyhawkins Can you check this out? everywhere I look seems to suggest that dried oil is hazardous waste. You have a responsibility to make sure your advice respects the environment when producing this type of informative video.

[@hayleyhawkins]

@@katew108 Hi there - you should never really have much paint leftover on your palette to begin with. When oil painting it's very important to limit the dried paint you have leftover or else you're just wasting money. If you have tiny scrapings of paint leftover, toss in the household trash after fully dry. If you are leaving tons of leftover paint on your palette to dry up - then maybe think about taking that to hazardous waste.