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Non-toxic Watercolor Painting - How to Paint Safely with Watercolors
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Hi! I'm Honey, & in this video, we're going to discuss how to use watercolors safely. We'll talk about toxic & non-toxic watercolors as well as best practices so you can be as safe as possible. Let's get started! First of all, if this is a medical emergency, please pause this video, & call your local emergency hotline as soon as possible. If you are in America, the number for poison control is 1800-222-1222,
or just call 911. If you're outside of America, you can call your local emergency number. If in doubt, just call them because they have the resources to get your answer specific to your situation much faster than a general video could. They don't judge so don't feel embarrassed, that's what they're there for, & it's better to be safe than sorry. If this has been a helpful video to you, please like my video & if you're new to this channel, please subscribe so you can get notified of new content. Just as a disclaimer, I am not a doctor, or a scientist, or a lawyer, so make sure you do your own research. There's a lot of confusing information & this is just how I understand it. If you're a regular grown-up, watercolors in tube or pan form are typically safe as long as you don't eat it, you don't drink it, & you don't inhale it, so don't do any of those things & use your common sense. Where it gets trickier is if you have pets, or kids, or if you're pregnant, or nursing, or if you have a medical condition & you want to be safer. Unlike other paint mediums, watercolor doesn't have a strong smell or fumes so you don't necessarily have to work in a well ventilated area when you're using watercolor & that's one of the big pluses for me for watercolor because I am very sensitive to fumes & strong smells. I physically can't do oil paint or resin because of how noxious the fumes are but I don't have any problem with watercolor. It doesn't have any fumes at all, so it's not easy to inhale watercolor by accident. The only exception would be, which is not a common scenario, but it would be if you're hand-making your pigments yourself & working with it in powder form. In which case, you'd want to wear a respiratory mask just to protect yourself & protect your lungs from inhaling the powder. Again this is not a common scenario, so if you're not hand making or mixing your powdered pigments yourself, then it shouldn't be an issue. One thing that makes watercolor safer than other paint mediums is that the solvent you use for watercolor is water itself so we don't have to worry about the water because water is water. We don't have to worry about the paper because the paper is usually either cotton paper or pulp paper or mixed media paper which is basically just paper. We don't have to worry about the brush either. Just make sure you don't put the brush in your mouth. Some artists like to use their mouth to make the brush pointy but don't do that. You can use your fingers if you must. I personally don't like to touch the paint at all as much as possible so I don't do that either. To shape the brush, I typically use a paper towel or just try to shape it on the edge of my cup. The main thing we need to worry about is the actual paint itself. So to repeat don't lick your brush & don't use your mouth to make your brush pointier. If you use a supply for art, don't use it for food anymore. It's not safe to use for food anymore even if you wash it. Even if I'm using something for kids' art or crafts, I don't reuse it in the kitchen anymore. So examples of these are cups that you use for your paint water, or if you use a ceramic or porcelain plate as your palette, don't use those to serve food or drinks anymore. Another thing that I see is sometimes people wash their palettes in the dishwasher. To me, I don't think that's advisable. That to me feels like it will contaminate all your other plates & utensils & just contaminate the dishwasher in general.
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