SAFETY ARTICLES

Teaching Oil Painting in College – Angela Batchelor

Angela Batchelor currently lives in Twin Falls, Idaho with her husband, two sons, dog, and a small flock of chickens ...

Restoring My Ability to Paint – Barb Witlin

Barb Witlin currently has two paintings in the Omnibus 3D virtual gallery in Dresden Germany. She also is featured in ...

Pigments and Binders

On Pigments by Debu Barve -- Remember c o l o r s ?  This question sounds silly because we ...

Reimagine – Reinvent

A guest article by Kimberly Brooks. I never buy the Financial Times. But it was pink, it was in the ...

“A Little Black Book for My Younger Artist Self”

By Kimberly Brooks "The View From Here" 60 x 48 inches Oil on Linen I remember the first time I ...

Mike Strickland Writes About “Bio-Thinner”

As an artist who is very sensitive to the traditional solvents used in oil painting, I have been searching for ...

Green Acrylics?

Acrylic paints often contain small percentages of formaldehyde or ammonia as preservatives. These can cause allergic reactions in some individuals, ...

FIREWORKS IN THE STUDIO – DRY PIGMENTS

Iron oxide is possibly the single most common pigment used in oil and acrylic paints. Powdered aluminum is used in ...

KEEP IT SIMPLE

According to the Chemical Abstract Service, there are now over 50 million chemicals listed in their catalogues. New chemicals are ...

Should the Hazardous Art Materials Law be Repealed?

Recently the Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety (ACTS) people in New York called for the repeal of the labeling of ...

BEYOND CADMIUM TO MORE COLORS!

At one point, cadmium red was thought to be a safer alternative to vermilion (cinnabar). Because of the mercury in ...

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ART – SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT IT?

Recently, a highly regarded art supplies manufacturer closed up shop and sold everything to a much larger company, agreeing to ...

HUFFINGTON POST ART PAGE – FEATURED ARTICLE

It is common for an art student to show up for the first day of painting class and discover that ...

White Paint: The Problem With Nano-Particles

Historically, lead-based white was the pigment used in art, for hundreds of years.  But of course, lead is toxic and ...

THE CRAZY IDEA OF NON-TOXIC PIGMENTS

Recently, some folks have been marketing raw pigments for making "non-toxic" paints at home. This is the oldest mistake in ...

COLOR FROM A WORLD WITHOUT SUN

Almost as valuable and expensive as gold, vermilion was the unique red pigment demanded by the rich and powerful throughout ...

NATURAL VS. “NATURE-IDENTICAL” SPIKE LAVENDER

A synthesized “nature-identical” Oil of Spike Lavender has recently been made commercially available in the United States. This oil is ...

NEW! ORGANIC BRUSH SOAP

We finally released the brush soap everyone has been asking for. This new Organic Brush Soap is made from organic ...

SOLVENT EXPOSURE LEVELS FOR ARTISTS

Artists are becoming increasingly aware of health issues related to solvent exposure in the studio. Many art schools are now ...

KATHRYN NOSKA – DEEPER MEANINGS

My motto, “Take Time to Find the Unseen” is realized through Symbolism, the language of my art. I explore the ...

A CASE AGAINST ODORLESS MINERAL SPIRITS

This is a guest article written by Peter Campbell, the highly regarded artist, workshop presenter, and video producer whose work ...

FLYING WITH ART MATERIALS

At The Art Treehouse, one very common question asked by artists concerns the shipping of art materials by air, or ...

THE BRIGHT FUTURE OF ARTIST PAINTS

In recent years issues of toxicity and the environment have been at the forefront of concerns for artists who wish ...

CREATING ART WITH MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY

I am an artist with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS, a physical reaction to even the smallest amount of a variety ...

ECOLOGICAL RELEVANCE

JK Thorsen has a new December show at the Connect Gallery in Omaha. JK is a full time artist with ...