I am happily suprised by the white Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens in B, 1.5 and C. Last week I stumbled upon the set containing those three and a black pen in S. A couple of years ago I bought the big white pen with the rounded tip, but it was just too big to do highlights and I didn’t know there were other ones as well. I really do like the 1.5 for highlights. Not to bash the other two, because I like B and C very much . On my doodle below you can see all the white Faber-Castell pens and pencils on black paper. You can layer them to bring them out even more. I’d pick them over gel pens any day; they can be layered, they don’t scratch of, they go on top of coloured pencils, etc. (without giving up), they apply evenly, they are more reliable (my comparison: white uni ball signo gel pen).
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Derivan – vegan-friendly products
Australia based Derivan is a cruelty-free company with an array of different products.
Except the one colour Ivory Black in the Matisse range, all Derivan and Matisse branded paints are vegan-friendly!
Here: http://www.derivan.com.au you can find all of their products, e.g. cadmium-free acrylics, different types of acrylics, acrylic based inks, mediums, screen ink, block ink, watercolour, fabric paint, face and body paint, glitter glue, liquid pencil, …
Matisse is Derivan’s professional acrylics range: http://matisse.com.au/products/.
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Liquitex Cadmium-Free Colors – vegan
Liquitex’s new cadmium-free heavy body acrylics are vegan-friendly!
vegan-friendly Liquitex products:
- all paints, except Ivory Black
- mediums
- varnish
- synthetic brushes and knives
https://www.veganartstuff.info/2017/03/13/all-liquitex-products-except-the-colour-ivory-black/
https://www.veganartstuff.info/compendium/
https://www.liquitex.com/cadmium-free/
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Qor Watercolors except Bone Black
Manufacturer: Golden Paints
Vegan-friendly:
- all Qor Watercolors, except Bone Black
- Synthetic Ox Gall
- Lift Aid
- all Watercolor Mediums
- all Watercolor Grounds
All of Golden Paints’ Gels, Mediums and Pastes are vegan-friendly.
Here is the information about Golden Paints, which you can already find in the compendium and here: https://www.veganartstuff.info/2017/03/13/acrylic-products-by-golden-paints-with-exceptions/
Vegan-friendly:
- All Golden Paints’ acrylic products including mediums and varnishes
with the exception of:
Bone Black, Jenkins Green, Neutral Gray 2, Neutral Gray 3, Neutral Gray 4, Neutral Gray 5, Neutral Gray 6, Neutral Gray 7, Neutral Gray 8, Prussian Blue Hue, Terre Verte Hue, FLUID Bone Black, FLUID Jenkins Green, FLUID Prussian Blue Hue, MATTE FLUID Jenkins Green, MATTE Bone Black, MATTE Jenkins Green, HLA Bone Black, OPEN Bone Black, OPEN Jenkins Green
Vegetarian-friendly:
- Williamsburg Oil Paints, except Ivory Black, Cold Black and Payne’s Grey
https://www.qorcolors.com |
http://www.goldenpaints.com |
http://www.williamsburgoils.com |
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C.Kreul: Canvas and Paper
Company: C.Kreul
I’ve already listed C.Kreul with products in the compendium and here https://www.veganartstuff.info/2017/04/18/products-by-c-kreul/ . In the list weren’t any paper or canvas products so far, but now I have the information about several. They are all free of any animal derived sources,which also applies to the glue used.
Here are the new additions:
PAPER:
- Kreul Paper Water Color
- Kreul Paper Mixed Media
- Kreul Paper Sketching
- Solo Goya Paper Sketching
- Solo Goya Paper Water Color
- Solo Goya Paper Oil Color
- Solo Goya Triton Acrylic Pad
CANVAS
- Kreul Canvas Board
- Kreul Stretched Canvas
- Solo Goya Stretched Canvas Basic Line
- Solo Goya Stretched Canvas Premium Line
The paint products:
Vegan-friendly:
- Javana fabric paints
- Javana Textil Potch
- Javana texi mäx glitter, opak and sunny
- Javana Phantom Pen
- Javana Laundry Marker
- Kreul Textil Liner
- Hobby Line Acrylic Gloss, Satin and Matt Varnish
- Hobby Line Art Potch (Varnish & Glue)
- Hobby Line Foto Transfer Potch
- Hobby Line Gemstone Glue
- Solo Goya Glossy Varnish (Picture Varnish; Gemäldefirnis)
- Solo Goya Matt Varnish (Picture Varnish; Gemäldefirnis)
- Solo Goya Fixative
- Solo Goya Acrylic Paints
- Solo Goya Art Acryl Basic
- Solo Goya Triton Acrylic Paint Marker
- Kreul Pic Tixx Pens, with the exception of Pic Tixx Candle Pens, those are vegetarian friendly
And Following products are vegetarian-friendly:
- Kreul Pic Tixx Candle pens
- Chalky chalk paint
- Solo Goya Triton Acylic Paints (several colours are only vegetarian-friendly)
https://c-kreul.de/KREUL-Farben-fuer-Kuenstler.1440.0.html?&L=1
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Culture Hustle – Potions and Powders
Manufacturer: Culture Hustle
Culture Hustle is a cruelty-free company and all its products are vegan-friendly.
Products:
- Powders: powder paints; fluorescent, vibrant, you can mix them with water, acrylic medium or linseed oil
- Potions : acrylic paints; very opaque, very lightfast, archival, and they are scented
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Etchall – vegan-friendly products for etching glass
Manufacturer: Etchall
Etchall is cruelty-free and their products are vegan-friendly. They offer etching agents for glass and tools for the application.
Products:
- Etching Crème
- Dip n’ Etch
- Vinyl Etchmask
- Squeegee
- Detail Pick Tool
- Svivel Knife
- … for more check out their website
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tip-to-tip: water-reservoir brush+watercolour crayons, sticks and co.
Instead of using watercolours in pans, you can use watercolour pencils, sticks/gelatos and crayons with a water-reservoir brush or stiffer regular brush, but in the way you would paint with pans.
Tip-to-tip transfer: Brush over your water-soluble crayon/stick etc. (use more strokes to intensify the colour) and then apply it onto the paper. Alternatively draw with the crayon direcly on the edge of the paper or a separate paper and take the colour with the brush from there.
This way the colour application is much softer than drawing directly on the paper and going over the lines with a brush. You can colour a dainty little drawing or cover a DinA3 and larger paper with beautiful patterns.
If you don’t have a watercolour travel pan set, you can always take your pencils, crayons etc. and a water-reservoir brush pen. There will be no spills, it does not take up too much space and you have double the use out of the pencils. Using them with the brush and also drawing details directly with them.
It is also something different to go over the crayon/pencil with a wet brush than immersing the whole crayon/pencil tip in water, which can damage the lead.
I also went over a Faber Castell Pitt Artist Brush Pen with the water-reservoir brush to take colour and transfer to the paper. After drying the colour is going nowhere, because of the waterproof ink used in the pens. Why would someone do this to an already brush shaped pen tip ? You can cover a bigger area this way than with the small, less flexible brush pen tip; you can gently glaze the paper and if your brush pens are older, you still get good use out of them without having to draw streaky (although I found it can make also nice effects).
Painting on wet paper with the laden brush helps covering the paper surface quicker.
Solvent Substitutes-blending coloured pencils with oils
Since last year’s solvent search flop (zest-it) I hadn’t really pursued other options. This January I was reminded of this again, (thank you Steve for writing to me about this topic). I have heard of people using baby oil as substitute. So I gave it a first try with coconut oil.
I just threw randomly colour on smooth sketch paper (190g/m^2-90lbs; Hahnemühle sketch paper), transferred some of the coconut oil on the back of my hand and dipped my finger in it and was able to blend with it. This seemed to work so well, so I made my own little experiment the next day, with oils and other stuff I stumbled upon.
What I used:
- mixed Media Paper (250g/m^2-169lbs; Daler Rowney) with a rougher surface
- safflower oil
- coconut oil
- olive oil
- transparent lip balm
- seed oil
- baby face&body lotion
- cotton buds (brand doesn’t matter, mine are vegan, waterneutral ones by Hydrophile)
- coloured pencils (Polychromos, Faber-Castell)
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Cruelty-free companies offering vegan-friendly products:
This is a list of cruelty-free companies and the vegan-friendly products they offer. If you don’t find the company you are looking for in this list, please enter the company name in the search box to see their status. If you still can’t find the specific company you are looking for, please let me know, so that I can contact them.
Cheers, Anja (Ansho)
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