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Good, Osso. That WOULD be helpful.
I've been using Gemini odorless thinner. Does this mean that even though i can hardly smell it, it is destroying brain cells??
This is really disturbing. I have painted all my life and dont know anything about hte toxic nature of hte paints......No wonder I am forgetting phone numbers 20 years before I should be!!
whoa, whoa. Lets not jump to conclusions. i would go to google and look up, using a search term like (MSDS, gemini thinner) you should enter msds followed by a comma , and then give the brand and product name in as much detail as you can deliver. or , heres one i looked up for JL, its regarding acrylics. THIS is for you big guy.
http://www.unitednow.com/Health/MSDS/Paint/Acrylic/acrylicpaint.htm
I once purchased a pastel from ebay and by the time it arrived it was smudgy although the artist had placed a thin paper over it. so, it seems, to me, something has to be done to fix. There is an accomplished pastel artist here in our town and I will see what she does............I never pastel, but I own some old ones.
This is a link a pastel of Mrs. Stotlar's, who recently won the drawing category at a regional museum here, for a pastel drawing of an orange.
oops, forgot the link..........http://www.jal.cc.il.us/museum/paintingspage.html
I think, zinc, that you may need to put a space between your dots and the http business...
there is a non-toxic citrus based thinner that you can buy - i haven't tried it yet.
I think i said somewhere else - I use cheap vegetable oil to clean palettes and brushes and it is much kinder to skin, brushes, lungs and environment. I use baby oil to clean my hands.
I used to mix dyes for fibre arts inside a cardboard box with latex gloves inserted into small openings on both sides. Holding the
metal dye container inside the box with the gloves, I pried it open and mixed it with hot water. Don't know how effective it was environmentally, but at least the dye particles weren't floating around the studio...........
vivien-I dumped my avatar for one with a dead biker , but for some reason it wont copy and I lost the dead cat .
She- mordants are the most toxic in fibre arts. The mordants are usually metal salts that open the fibres to accept the dyes better. BUT, you need to wear respiration protection until; the mordants dry.
