@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!

@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 đŸ€—

@HeavenOnEarthIsVegan

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. 

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@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!!

@chloeaudio

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!

@oliviaroseink

This video is misleading/incorrect on a few points. Gamsol IS a solvent and turpentine is not commonly used anymore. It is far, far less toxic than turpentine and used as an alternative to it. Toxic pigments are not necessarily dangerous. Cadmium, lead, etc. isn’t harmful in paint form unless you are getting it all over your skin or eating it. In powder form, many pigments are very dangerous to inhale but once suspended in the oil it’s not going to become airborne unless sanded or ground up. Many of the “non toxic” alternatives are also actually toxic and bad for the environment. There’s very little risk to using these paint so long as you’re not getting covered in it. Using gamsol is not dangerous either so long as you are near a window or fan. 

The traditional pigments and animal sourced products are actually easier on the environment in many ways because they don’t require the use of synthetic materials (plastics/petroleum products). Just because something is technically vegan doesn’t mean that it’s actually more beneficial to animals, including wildlife. Using natural hair brushes, for example, is not as harmful overall as synthetic brushes because the production of the brushes has a smaller overall environmental impact because it doesn’t use plastics and therefore is also going to break down much faster than synthetic ones (and not stick around in a landfill for hundreds of years). The toxic natural pigments like cadmium and colbalt are very common in the environment and also naturally occurring. Yes, dispose of things safety but there’s no reason to scrape gobs of paint off your pallet and waste it. The residual pigment that collects in the bottom of your solvent can take years before you need to throw it away, you can always just pour the clean gamsol off the top once it settles.

A lot of what you’re suggesting is actually more likely to cause environmental degradation and therefore harm animals via the process of producing the “non toxic” paints, which are not non toxic really, and the fact is that the toxic pigments in paints are not actually very dangerous to use if done in a very reasonable way. They do not themselves give off fumes (for the most part). These pigments are also used in other types of paint. This was frustrating to listen to because it reflects fundamental misconceptions about the mechanisms of toxicity and risks associated with oils, the potential harm to both persons and environment m and how to mitigate the risks. I really think you should look into the subject a lot more.

@jivka6518

Excellent work thanks for the information I’d been looking for. Vegan variety and right at the end you gave me the best answer Schmink normally blue - now the problem is how I get hold of them but no worries I’ll get around it
.😂. I have been using w&n plus Daler-Rowne but as you know they are not  exactly vegan friendly
.now I have an idea and an option. 😀.

@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?

@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)

@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

@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?

@castlecottage7

Furniture makers, musical instrument makers and many other crafts people also used turpentine.

@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

@charlie44266

From a chemist:  
1. Water is "The universal solvent"  so clearly "solvents" are not the problem. (But imprecise terminology is, allowing confusing and trade names to hide the actual composition of reducing, thinning and cleaning products).
2. The second most common solvents are alcohols: ethanol, methanol, propanol. 
3. Vegetable oils are a solvent, including linseed, walnut, safflower, corn oil. 

All solvents work by dissolving a pigment, a carrier medium and an oil or synthetic oil. Oil paints use linseed oil as their splvent. Acrylic paints are finely powdered acrylic plastic solids (polymetylmethacrylate) in alcohols and water, lacquer paints are pigments disolved in volatile petroleum  solvents with tree pitch.
All solvents in common use are chosen by their high capacity to dissolve oils and fats. They are aided by emulsifiers like detergent and soap. Tgat is why your skin is dried by exposure to solvents and detergents: they removes your natural oils and fats from skin, muscle and brain. And, that includes water, an excellent defatting agent.
Water, alcohol, plant oils are all "organic" and solvents for oils and fats on your body. Petroleum oils are organic but solvents for lipids. 
Heavy metals are neurotoxic. But human nervous organs are built on a fatty superstructure. Removing your natural lipids, fats and oils will disable your nervous system including your brain, its only a question of how quickly the damage occurs. Volatile lacquer paints harm quicly, acqueous acrylic paints harm slower. Vegetable oil paints are between them.
Use a barrier between yourself between ANY paint, pigment, reducer, thinner, or cleaner to keep the harm below the level your body can recover from.
Learn to speak organic chemistry.

@castlecottage7

The Renaissance masters did use solvents- turpentine.

@Valeria-zy6vc

Hello, I am a new subscriber. I totally agree with the issue of pigments made in animals. I, in my point of view and doubts without evidence, who guarantees me that these animals were due to biocide or disease?

@motherfocaccia

Is the Sistine chapel an oil painting?