As a kid growing up in Mexico making pottery in the 90s, I am so blessed I never got lead poisoning. The vibrancy and consistency of lead based paints are unmatched for sure
2:50 - Even then, a retired colleague who'd originally worked developing glazes for the ceramics industry said he and his colleagues all used to have regular blood tests to monitor the cadmium in them, because that stuff ain't great either!😅 Really interesting videos.😀 Keep safe.
I'm glad you say the thing about people in the past not being stupid. I was explaining to my partner the many deadly Victorian colors and they were kind of laughing till I asked them what they think when they see a CA prop 65 warning. They said "it's on everything" and I went exactly. Welcome to the Victorian logic about these things lmao.
Actually, I totally have some questions for you! Do you have an email I could reach you at? Or if you don’t want to comment it, could ya send me an email at abrushwithbekah@gmail.com? :)
It's not really that big of a deal, but I always get slightly annoyed when people call the Aztecs and Maya "ancient". The Aztecs got their starts in the Late Middle Ages. And while the Maya can be called ancient as their civilisations can go back to the 200's they, along with the Aztecs, only ended with Spanish conquest in the Renaissance/ Early Modern period. Calling these civilizations "ancient" makes them seem further away in history then they actually are, and unlike some truly ancient mesoamerican civilizations like the Olmecs and the people of Teotihuacán the cultures of these civilizations are still with us.
I've recently began to realize this, as well! Some of the notions we have been given are wrong. Many of the 'ancient times' weren't really any older than other landmark times.
Intoxication by lead is called saturnism and has a lot of different type of symptoms depending on the amount, time of exposure and concentration of lead on blood.
My grandma went to art school briefly in the 1960's, and she's told me that even then they were warned about being especially careful with certain paint colors, and to avoid them touching her skin as much as possible. She remembers the blue being particularly concerning. Also, when you do a gradient at the end of each short, are you using titanium white or lead white? I'd be curious to see how they mixed with lead white since that's how it would be used.
I wonder if the toxicity of art supplies is part of where artist "suffering for their art" comes from. Artists choosing these deadly paints for the sake of their color and vibrancy despite them causing a wide range of mental and physical alliments.
It's wild how cadmium and cobalt are toxic too. Cobalt-60 is also so dangerous and radioactive that small tubes of it are labelled "drop and run" if taken out of a machine
I know this is really off-topic, but not only are you really brave for dealing with poisons but you’re also an amazing TH-camr for making their own shorts compilation when your a shorts based TH-camr (and I don’t have to search for your compilations from fan accounts)
I'm curious about that as well. I'd imagine "toxic substance" bags. What would be used in commercial chemical labs. But I'd like to see a "behind the scenes"
Thank you for this content I was looking for something new and different this is perfect. I love to learn about history and the ways that they lived and how it was so different and dangerous. So thank you for the great videos and keep up the amazing work it's awesome learning all the history of the colors.
Two clips for my favorite: Paris Green! 😍 I was able to visit Ulysses S. Grant's White Haven as a kid and my color-loving heart was just overwhelmed by how beautiful an all-bright-green house was! I really appreciate the strides that the Victorians made in color discovery, but I'm also thankful that we've made progress since then in making less toxic options!
I enjoyed both your shorts and your longer form advisory videos on the dangers of certain paints pigments and products from the past. However one suggestion I'd like to make is the little yellow triangular symbol with the skull and crossbones on it can I suggest please that you either make it larger in the upper corner or perhaps put it somewhere down in the bottom lower corner a little bit larger because I do think and I do believe that it is very important for people to be able to see that but it's barely discernible in your video. Just speaking from the context of someone with slight vision problems.
7:29 my family (-me, I’m adopted) are FULLY American, and I’ve become very whitewashed because of it(I’m Nigerian) but I do very much enjoy eating bugs, and I always get wird looks about it, like you can not tell me chocolate covered crickets are gross!! THEYRE DELICIOUS!!!❤❤❤ 1000000% recommend them, try them, and trust me, you’ll love em!! ❤❤
I am novice oil painter. I was watching your video and didn't know some of the paint in the past have extremely toxic. I only knew some made from eggs for painting. But toxic painting? Yeesh I am glad I never hold of those. Usefully safe oil painting for today is the safest but have to know how to handle those. Thank you for showing those toxic painting and information about those. You were very well informative about those paintings.
Van Gogh may not have eaten the pain but I’ve seen studies done that you can absorb lead through the skin. Artists getting their hands COVERED in lead based paint is what cause the eccentricity.
"Just don't eat it" seems easy, until you mix your coffee cup with your paint cup and suddenly you're sipping on lead infused coffee with a peppering of arsenic.
"Just don't eat it." When these paints were in use it was also a habit of painters to lick the tips of the brushes to bring them back to a fine point while painitng. The same applies today. There are so many toxic materials that artists and crafters work with and the practices that I see them use on TH-cam videos are appallingly unsafe. Pay attention to what yo uare working with and how to handle it safely. I have already lost two master glassblowers that I knew to cancer. The art you do could kill you.
I and I’m sure much of your followers would be very interested to hear the backstory on the forest “mural /sculpture” that is on the wall in the back of your videos. I didn’t really notice till recently that there are giant rocks cemented into the wall, so it makes me think that you added the mural to an existing “70’s” rock wall in your house. It’s so cool and tranquil, we love it.
Fascinating channel. Just found it and subscribed. There are a load of different qualities with pigments and often some of these old toxic stuffs are better for certain applications than the modern "safe" substitutes. Back in the 'sixties, we could choose from the new fangled titanium white, zinc white and flake white, aka lead. Lead white couldn't be beat for opacity, but it was crap for glazing, when one would switch to zinc. Titanium was super-bright compromise than could never thin out as well as zinc or cover as well as flake... this is, of course an oversimplification. Glazes, arguably should not contain white at all but should allow the substrate to shine through. and then we have to consider binders - acacia for watercolour, egg-yolk for tempera (which sealed the pigments and made the toxic ones safe). and then there's all the varieties of oils and drying or retarding agents which conferred different degrees of "workability" into the paint. Every oil master had his own secrets. That is just a quick consideration of the whites, really. Every pigment has its own personality, and so does the binder holding it together and all these considerations affect durability and for that, nothing has ever equalled fresco, which is raw pigment painted onto wet plaster and can last for millennia. Most modern painters have no idea about paint technology, and this has led to some tragic disasters like the murals painted on walls in Plymouth, England, by Robert Lenkiewicz. Lenkiewicz was arguably one of the finest academic painters of the modern era, but he was clueless about material properties and all his remarkable outdoor works completely faded and crumbled into nothing and are lost for ever. Sorry for getting carried away, but I'm quite excited at having found a channel echoing one of my interests. Do you have anything to say about bitumen, again responsible for the demise of many fine works in the Victorian era due to it being photosensitive?
You’re exaggerating for using cinnabar, I’m till using cinnabar for the lacquer works. The cinnabar from the mine usually contains too much Impurities, so it has to be reduced to mercury then Oxidized to cinnabar to remove impurities. The cinnabar comes with many different color grades, some Close to persimmon color, some bloody red. And also there’s some mineral cinnabar with very little impurities that can be grind to powder as natural cinnabar. Also cinnabar itself is an ingredient for Traditional oriental medicine in China and Tibet. Of course there are some traditional methods of detoxification needed, these detoxification methods have been lost and only still exist in the Tibetan traditional medicine.
1:53 me. Not realizing I'm painting with cinnabar. painting is so relaxing and you really have to focus. Hmmm. I wonder why I feel like I'm slowly dying. It must be my imagination. Oh well. I'm gonna keep painting Jack. From "Jack's World Of Wildlife".
Is Paris Green the stuff they used to add to distemper on the walls in tenements back in the day? I swear I read that’s where it came from (I guess it’s kill mould and bugs?). Horrifying if so. So many of these poisonous colours are so pretty. What a nightmare to have them around years ago and little children, especially if you didn’t know they were poisonous!
Fun fact: Eating bugs is a much more sustainable source of protein than regular meat. Some companies sell cricket protein and bug snacks and many bugs taste good!
Bugs have also been used as dog food. We feed our two Chihuahuas cricket food from a company called Jiminy’s and they’ve been loving it as a portion (about a quarter) of their regular food
When they parked the USS Iowa in LA I remember chatting with an older friend of mine who relayed a story from a friend of his who had served on it. It was built at a time that white lead was used as a corrosion inhibitor. They had to close a valve on a pipe that might have been sealed in its housing under the floor for 20 or 30 years. They opened the housing and it was a solid mass pf white. They the whole box was brimmed with a slurry of white lead in grease. All they could do was scoop enough out to get to the valve's handle but for whatever it's worth, it turned just like new.
also, i think theyd perform really well on youtube, and i know youtubes monetization is awesome for creators compared to say, tiktok and i need to see you succeed!!!!!
It’s reasonably unethical to continue painting with these toxic colors or paints but, theoretically if someone who was a professional used them while following all the proper safety precautions, would just having a painting with those paints and a proper warning be manageable? What I’m asking is even with all these precautions, are long time exposure to its use or presence costly?
While I appreciate art very much, I have less than zero artistic ability. I subscribed to your channel to help you as little as that does, because you are adorable, smart, talented and very enjoyable to watch. Old dude from Dallas wishing you the best!🤠😎👍
Is there a particular color that is extremely close to Paris Green that we can get? All shades of green are my personal favorite, but for obvious reasons I don't want to use the actual thing.
It looks to me almost identical to malachite, copper carbonate, which is barely toxic at all, still don't eat it. You probably have to use way more CuCO3 to mix than this, it's a weak pigment, but the color is almost identical
lol I was just looking for this comment 😝 It took a lot more scrolling than I would have liked 😅 Please be careful with cadmium art peoples! It is basically just as toxic as lead!
If I buy a paint product manufactured in the modern day with the same name as these toxic pigments, are they using these ingredients or are they made with alternatives to match it? I am asking because I have a wall paint from Benjamin Moore called "Gamboge".
You can buy a poisonous pigment in only two ways - buy the pigment directly or professional oil or watercolor paints. In other cases, it is an imitation of color, but not a poisonous pigment
So, is cadmium less toxic than lead, it appears... Well, no, actually is much more toxic. Wait, then why is it legal and present in the most popular red pigment used nowadays?! Because lead was banned because of being added to practically every paint in wide use. Artistically we could still use and enjoy it.
I recently discovered your channel so I don't know if you actually paint? If so I was going to challenge you to complete a painting only utilizing tertiary colors. I enjoy vexillology and created some flags only using tertiary colors
@bekahart Are there any old paints that you are still seeking out? You seem to have the ones that I knew about. I find your videos fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Yyyeeeaaah. . . made an absolutely bitchin flesh tone though! (Collapses sideways and spasms for abut 15 minutes... queue the frothing at the mouth and the trying to catch those damned gnats that really aren't there. I used to oilpaint with my fingers and #1 it shows, and #2 -- what were we talking about just now?) Or: why you shouldn't teach yourself to oil paint by experimentation.
What on earth was Victorian times huffing bro😭 eating mummies, arsenic crackers, radioactive water, morphine toothpaste like how stupid can a generation be😭
Pardon my language but the last one that made people poop them selves to death. Why does it look like that diarrhea like when you have nothing left to poop? 😅😂
There basically aren't any, organic plant materials almost always have very poor lightfastness. You want to use mineral paints if you want your paintings to last any time. Lake pigments are in between but still not great and require a lot more chemistry than just mulling. She would need a whole glassware setup and vacuum filters and stirring hot plates, fume hoods, and so on
The same companies selling it as children's toy paint sold it as pesticide simultaneously, in different cans in the same factory. They were completely evil people
It's crazy because they eat food and could easily be poisoning themselves. Poisoning the poor to save money is one thing, but potentially poisoning yourself is just reckless.
The colours look great. I am really concerned that you have to use gas and chemical masks. most paints today are poisonous but generally you do not gas and chemical masks. So this is good they are banned.
Look, I present a challenge to you make a painting with every single toxic or old paint you have in your collection .Maybe something like death watching over you with a hourglass, waiting for a little mistake to take you by their side...
As a kid growing up in Mexico making pottery in the 90s, I am so blessed I never got lead poisoning. The vibrancy and consistency of lead based paints are unmatched for sure
2:50 - Even then, a retired colleague who'd originally worked developing glazes for the ceramics industry said he and his colleagues all used to have regular blood tests to monitor the cadmium in them, because that stuff ain't great either!😅
Really interesting videos.😀 Keep safe.
I'm glad you say the thing about people in the past not being stupid. I was explaining to my partner the many deadly Victorian colors and they were kind of laughing till I asked them what they think when they see a CA prop 65 warning. They said "it's on everything" and I went exactly. Welcome to the Victorian logic about these things lmao.
If you ever can’t find a toxic pigment I’d be more than happy to either synthesize it for you, or help you make it yourself.
Actually, I totally have some questions for you! Do you have an email I could reach you at? Or if you don’t want to comment it, could ya send me an email at abrushwithbekah@gmail.com? :)
@@bekahart sure, I’ll email you.
that’s so cool
What?!? You would synthesise it? How?
Do I smell a collab coming?
It's not really that big of a deal, but I always get slightly annoyed when people call the Aztecs and Maya "ancient". The Aztecs got their starts in the Late Middle Ages. And while the Maya can be called ancient as their civilisations can go back to the 200's they, along with the Aztecs, only ended with Spanish conquest in the Renaissance/ Early Modern period. Calling these civilizations "ancient" makes them seem further away in history then they actually are, and unlike some truly ancient mesoamerican civilizations like the Olmecs and the people of Teotihuacán the cultures of these civilizations are still with us.
SUPER valid point!
I've recently began to realize this, as well! Some of the notions we have been given are wrong. Many of the 'ancient times' weren't really any older than other landmark times.
Intoxication by lead is called saturnism and has a lot of different type of symptoms depending on the amount, time of exposure and concentration of lead on blood.
My grandma went to art school briefly in the 1960's, and she's told me that even then they were warned about being especially careful with certain paint colors, and to avoid them touching her skin as much as possible. She remembers the blue being particularly concerning.
Also, when you do a gradient at the end of each short, are you using titanium white or lead white? I'd be curious to see how they mixed with lead white since that's how it would be used.
It was probably manganese blue
I will not lie, lead paints are toxic yet beautiful.
I wonder if the toxicity of art supplies is part of where artist "suffering for their art" comes from. Artists choosing these deadly paints for the sake of their color and vibrancy despite them causing a wide range of mental and physical alliments.
I guess you could say, these paints are to die for 😅😅😅
underrated comment imo
The fact that the loose lead power was used for COSMETICS for so long is so insane
I would love to see these original toxic pigments swatched along side the non/less toxic modern renditions/replacement.
List of synthetic substitutes mentioned:
Titanium white
Cadmium red
Cobalt green
(Sidenote: that Paris/emerald green dress looks so gorgeous.)
It's wild how cadmium and cobalt are toxic too. Cobalt-60 is also so dangerous and radioactive that small tubes of it are labelled "drop and run" if taken out of a machine
Pretty sure Lead White was how Caravaggio died and why he was so… wild of a person
infected wound from a fight
I know this is really off-topic, but not only are you really brave for dealing with poisons but you’re also an amazing TH-camr for making their own shorts compilation when your a shorts based TH-camr (and I don’t have to search for your compilations from fan accounts)
Lots of Mexican ornamental pottery uses lead for oigmentation. Unfortunately, people unknowingly use the pot belly pots for making beans.
Cochineal must have the most unpleasantly plain taste for something that looks so deliciously red and sweet
How do you dispose of the waste?
I'm curious about that as well. I'd imagine "toxic substance" bags. What would be used in commercial chemical labs. But I'd like to see a "behind the scenes"
@@ella_cinder4361 this substances aren't "that" dangerous
Something I’m curious about is if it’s dangerous to have any in the air. Because no doubt, some will get into the air.
Paint toxicity level: Twitter in 2 am
Thank you for this content I was looking for something new and different this is perfect. I love to learn about history and the ways that they lived and how it was so different and dangerous. So thank you for the great videos and keep up the amazing work it's awesome learning all the history of the colors.
Two clips for my favorite: Paris Green! 😍 I was able to visit Ulysses S. Grant's White Haven as a kid and my color-loving heart was just overwhelmed by how beautiful an all-bright-green house was! I really appreciate the strides that the Victorians made in color discovery, but I'm also thankful that we've made progress since then in making less toxic options!
I enjoyed both your shorts and your longer form advisory videos on the dangers of certain paints pigments and products from the past. However one suggestion I'd like to make is the little yellow triangular symbol with the skull and crossbones on it can I suggest please that you either make it larger in the upper corner or perhaps put it somewhere down in the bottom lower corner a little bit larger because I do think and I do believe that it is very important for people to be able to see that but it's barely discernible in your video.
Just speaking from the context of someone with slight vision problems.
It does strike me as funny that gamboge caused people to die from diarrhea and dehydration, and then as a pigment it has the same hue as baby poop
Out of curiosity, what is your process for cleaning your tools and properly disposing of these toxic pigments and paints?
7:29 my family (-me, I’m adopted) are FULLY American, and I’ve become very whitewashed because of it(I’m Nigerian) but I do very much enjoy eating bugs, and I always get wird looks about it, like you can not tell me chocolate covered crickets are gross!! THEYRE DELICIOUS!!!❤❤❤
1000000% recommend them, try them, and trust me, you’ll love em!! ❤❤
I am novice oil painter. I was watching your video and didn't know some of the paint in the past have extremely toxic. I only knew some made from eggs for painting. But toxic painting? Yeesh I am glad I never hold of those. Usefully safe oil painting for today is the safest but have to know how to handle those. Thank you for showing those toxic painting and information about those. You were very well informative about those paintings.
Van Gogh may not have eaten the pain but I’ve seen studies done that you can absorb lead through the skin. Artists getting their hands COVERED in lead based paint is what cause the eccentricity.
Our culture eats a whole lot of bugs too - they're just aquatic ones. Shrimp, lobster, crab, crawdads/crayfish (aka "waterbugs").
"Just don't eat it" seems easy, until you mix your coffee cup with your paint cup and suddenly you're sipping on lead infused coffee with a peppering of arsenic.
"Just don't eat it." When these paints were in use it was also a habit of painters to lick the tips of the brushes to bring them back to a fine point while painitng.
The same applies today. There are so many toxic materials that artists and crafters work with and the practices that I see them use on TH-cam videos are appallingly unsafe. Pay attention to what yo uare working with and how to handle it safely. I have already lost two master glassblowers that I knew to cancer. The art you do could kill you.
radium watch dials:
I and I’m sure much of your followers would be very interested to hear the backstory on the forest “mural /sculpture” that is on the wall in the back of your videos. I didn’t really notice till recently that there are giant rocks cemented into the wall, so it makes me think that you added the mural to an existing “70’s” rock wall in your house. It’s so cool and tranquil, we love it.
Fascinating channel. Just found it and subscribed.
There are a load of different qualities with pigments and often some of these old toxic stuffs are better for certain applications than the modern "safe" substitutes. Back in the 'sixties, we could choose from the new fangled titanium white, zinc white and flake white, aka lead. Lead white couldn't be beat for opacity, but it was crap for glazing, when one would switch to zinc. Titanium was super-bright compromise than could never thin out as well as zinc or cover as well as flake... this is, of course an oversimplification. Glazes, arguably should not contain white at all but should allow the substrate to shine through. and then we have to consider binders - acacia for watercolour, egg-yolk for tempera (which sealed the pigments and made the toxic ones safe). and then there's all the varieties of oils and drying or retarding agents which conferred different degrees of "workability" into the paint. Every oil master had his own secrets.
That is just a quick consideration of the whites, really. Every pigment has its own personality, and so does the binder holding it together and all these considerations affect durability and for that, nothing has ever equalled fresco, which is raw pigment painted onto wet plaster and can last for millennia. Most modern painters have no idea about paint technology, and this has led to some tragic disasters like the murals painted on walls in Plymouth, England, by Robert Lenkiewicz.
Lenkiewicz was arguably one of the finest academic painters of the modern era, but he was clueless about material properties and all his remarkable outdoor works completely faded and crumbled into nothing and are lost for ever.
Sorry for getting carried away, but I'm quite excited at having found a channel echoing one of my interests. Do you have anything to say about bitumen, again responsible for the demise of many fine works in the Victorian era due to it being photosensitive?
Omg THANK YOU for an HDR version 😁😁😁
You’re exaggerating for using cinnabar, I’m till using cinnabar for the lacquer works. The cinnabar from the mine usually contains too much Impurities, so it has to be reduced to mercury then Oxidized to cinnabar to remove impurities. The cinnabar comes with many different color grades, some Close to persimmon color, some bloody red. And also there’s some mineral cinnabar with very little impurities that can be grind to powder as natural cinnabar. Also cinnabar itself is an ingredient for Traditional oriental medicine in China and Tibet. Of course there are some traditional methods of detoxification needed, these detoxification methods have been lost and only still exist in the Tibetan traditional medicine.
1:53 me. Not realizing I'm painting with cinnabar. painting is so relaxing and you really have to focus. Hmmm. I wonder why I feel like I'm slowly dying. It must be my imagination. Oh well. I'm gonna keep painting Jack. From "Jack's World Of Wildlife".
Is Paris Green the stuff they used to add to distemper on the walls in tenements back in the day? I swear I read that’s where it came from (I guess it’s kill mould and bugs?). Horrifying if so.
So many of these poisonous colours are so pretty. What a nightmare to have them around years ago and little children, especially if you didn’t know they were poisonous!
Great video! Love this information. These deadly colors are amazing too. Thanks for this!
but like, how do you clean the materials you use without contaminating the toxin? (this may be a dumb question and i am genuinely curious)
You remind me SO SO SO much of Juliette Lewis
How do you clean up after making these paints? Isn't most of this hazardous waste? You can't just throw it in the trash or wash it in the sink.
Lead white paint is only dangerous when injected (eaten) or the dust particles (dry pigment) are inhaled.
I think you typoed "ingested.' 🙂 _Injecting_ lead would certainly be pretty dangerous, but would make for some interesting post-mortem x-rays.
@@misterheavy2296
Thanks for the correction!👍
Didn't mean to be a clever dick, but it was kinda funny. I tyfe midtakes all thr tine.❤
These are all amazing, and I am glad you are sharing them with us - safely. Are you going to find Radium paint or Uranium glaze in the future?
Yeah all these I would use them because the pigment is beautiful
Bugs aside, that red is GORGEOUS ❤❤❤
Nice video thank you for sharing
lol - the red was so toxic, that Cadmium was an improvement…
Fun fact: Eating bugs is a much more sustainable source of protein than regular meat. Some companies sell cricket protein and bug snacks and many bugs taste good!
Bugs have also been used as dog food. We feed our two Chihuahuas cricket food from a company called Jiminy’s and they’ve been loving it as a portion (about a quarter) of their regular food
Good appetite! And they are easy on your conscience as they are not fluffy and look yucky, also you can't see their pain that well.
Radium florescent Paint is a fun one.... radioactive though.
When they parked the USS Iowa in LA I remember chatting with an older friend of mine who relayed a story from a friend of his who had served on it. It was built at a time that white lead was used as a corrosion inhibitor. They had to close a valve on a pipe that might have been sealed in its housing under the floor for 20 or 30 years. They opened the housing and it was a solid mass pf white. They the whole box was brimmed with a slurry of white lead in grease. All they could do was scoop enough out to get to the valve's handle but for whatever it's worth, it turned just like new.
I'm really curious. How do you go about disposing of these super toxic chemicals?
Wow this world amazing colour I love green, yellow nice job sist 🙏🏻❤❤👍🏻
Could you mix Paris green with led white? I'm interested to see the outcome since both are so toxic
Its funny i remember lead paint still on old houses when i was a kid. It was certainly a vivid white
I wish I wasn't colorblind. 😅 I bet these are beautiful
if you made full videos about this, like nilered style, i would be so happy
also, i think theyd perform really well on youtube, and i know youtubes monetization is awesome for creators compared to say, tiktok and i need to see you succeed!!!!!
Lead yellow is beautiful
Paris green looks like chrysoprase
It’s reasonably unethical to continue painting with these toxic colors or paints but, theoretically if someone who was a professional used them while following all the proper safety precautions, would just having a painting with those paints and a proper warning be manageable? What I’m asking is even with all these precautions, are long time exposure to its use or presence costly?
Glad I never got curious and started messing around with my grandpa’s pigments from the 1950’s.
Thanks for sharing
I hate that arsenic green is so nice to look at. My favorite color is green, and arsenic green is one of my favorite shades.
Try to find the most dangerous teal/mint
While I appreciate art very much, I have less than zero artistic ability. I subscribed to your channel to help you as little as that does, because you are adorable, smart, talented and very enjoyable to watch. Old dude from Dallas wishing you the best!🤠😎👍
Why do you sometimes use linseed oil and sometimes walnut oil in your demos?
That’s why you use a light pigment to mix and adjacent colors to give the illusion of the white you want
Is there a particular color that is extremely close to Paris Green that we can get? All shades of green are my personal favorite, but for obvious reasons I don't want to use the actual thing.
It looks to me almost identical to malachite, copper carbonate, which is barely toxic at all, still don't eat it. You probably have to use way more CuCO3 to mix than this, it's a weak pigment, but the color is almost identical
I love the greens, because then we get to play the “arsenic or radium?” game and it’s even more exciting 😂
I have used "French white" lead paint. It is beautiful to work with, I gotta say. Wish it wasn't so toxic 😢
*everyone out here pretending cadmium red is safe either* 🥲
Words of wisdom in the sea of ignorance.
lol I was just looking for this comment 😝 It took a lot more scrolling than I would have liked 😅
Please be careful with cadmium art peoples! It is basically just as toxic as lead!
The likely complexity of the disposing of your trash gives me a headache to contemplate.
You are 🎨 a 😎 wonderful painter who amazed me 🤩
If I buy a paint product manufactured in the modern day with the same name as these toxic pigments, are they using these ingredients or are they made with alternatives to match it? I am asking because I have a wall paint from Benjamin Moore called "Gamboge".
You can buy a poisonous pigment in only two ways - buy the pigment directly or professional oil or watercolor paints. In other cases, it is an imitation of color, but not a poisonous pigment
So, is cadmium less toxic than lead, it appears... Well, no, actually is much more toxic. Wait, then why is it legal and present in the most popular red pigment used nowadays?! Because lead was banned because of being added to practically every paint in wide use. Artistically we could still use and enjoy it.
I recently discovered your channel so I don't know if you actually paint? If so I was going to challenge you to complete a painting only utilizing tertiary colors. I enjoy vexillology and created some flags only using tertiary colors
@bekahart Are there any old paints that you are still seeking out? You seem to have the ones that I knew about. I find your videos fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
How do you clean up/neutralize the toxins on your equipment?
POV Frannces:oooOoOoOooOOo eats*
the background music at 3:36 is actually a song called welcome to the outer worlds by dan bull, it surprised me when i heard it lols
I made my own lead white recently. Beautiful paint, but risky to make.
Yyyeeeaaah. . . made an absolutely bitchin flesh tone though! (Collapses sideways and spasms for abut 15 minutes... queue the frothing at the mouth and the trying to catch those damned gnats that really aren't there. I used to oilpaint with my fingers and #1 it shows, and #2 -- what were we talking about just now?)
Or: why you shouldn't teach yourself to oil paint by experimentation.
What on earth was Victorian times huffing bro😭 eating mummies, arsenic crackers, radioactive water, morphine toothpaste like how stupid can a generation be😭
How do you dispose of the waste? Like the paper towels, gloves, etc.
The gamboge looked like Robert Maplethorpe color, fittingly 😂
Pardon my language but the last one that made people poop them selves to death. Why does it look like that diarrhea like when you have nothing left to poop? 😅😂
What about doing a video on spices that can be used for pigment when ground to ultra fine powders
There basically aren't any, organic plant materials almost always have very poor lightfastness. You want to use mineral paints if you want your paintings to last any time. Lake pigments are in between but still not great and require a lot more chemistry than just mulling. She would need a whole glassware setup and vacuum filters and stirring hot plates, fume hoods, and so on
why is it dangerous and deadly?😢 it’s so pretty to be so deadly
The fact they used arsenic as a pesticide is crazy. That caught me of guard.
It's simple: It's very good at killing things!
The same companies selling it as children's toy paint sold it as pesticide simultaneously, in different cans in the same factory. They were completely evil people
It's crazy because they eat food and could easily be poisoning themselves. Poisoning the poor to save money is one thing, but potentially poisoning yourself is just reckless.
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The colours look great.
I am really concerned that you have to use gas and chemical masks.
most paints today are poisonous but generally you do not gas and chemical masks.
So this is good they are banned.
Illegal everywhere but america! Because who cares if we die, as long as the rich get paid for you being alive forst
Look, I present a challenge to you make a painting with every single toxic or old paint you have in your collection .Maybe something like death watching over you with a hourglass, waiting for a little mistake to take you by their side...
Orpiment when? 😃
Still Vermilion aka cinnabar is my favourite red pigment
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dumb idea: paint a deadly rainbow with vermilion, uranium orange, naples yellow, paris green, prussion blue, and london purple
The laxative one even LOOKS like a diarrhoea yellow, geeze...
Shitting yourself to death is crazy
But it tastes so good!
I don't know which was worse in the ancient world; being a lead maker or being sent to the cinnabar mines.
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House paint sucked when they removed the lead.