Hello everyone,
here is the Chameleon update:
all Chameleon products are free of animal derivatives except the Chameleon pencils, those contain a small portion of beeswax.
They state, they are a PETA approved cruelty -free company and they do not test on animals. Here is the link they provided.
Source: mail contact
Hello there,
I was just asked by a reader about watercolour paints and brushes. I am still waiting for updates on da Vinci brushes and Faber-Castell ones, but in the past (da Vinci in 2017, Faber-Castell in 2018) the 100% synthetic hair brushes should be free of animal ingredients, but again, I am waiting on an update. I am also waiting on information from Léonard, concerning their vegan labelled brush sets.
Watercolour options (with date stamps, when the information was gathered)
This is what I could think of at the moment. Clearly, I have to update a lot of information, and companies you might be missing here, please use the search box on this website for those and have a look. There are companies e.g. Maimeri and St.Petersberg/ Russian White Nights, that declined to reply (more then once), other company’s products might contain animal derivatives.
If you are not able to find art supply brushes, there is also the option of using vegan-friendly labelled make-up brushes. They should work for watercolours and pastels. I used a vegan kabuki brush in the past (it is still close by) as a duster brush to go over my drawings. I would be concerned about acrylic and oil paints, they might be to aggressive, so I cannot promise they would withstand those.
Hello there,
here is a summary of the reply I received from Edding:
Principally, all Edding products consist of synthetic material and chemically treated material. This means, it is very unlikely that markers and other products should contain any components or traces of an animal source, but the company cannot give a guarantee that they absolutely are so.
According to Edding, at the moment it is still difficult to impossible to get transparency throughout the material supply chain, but they are committed to keep on working to obtain clarity on the specifics.
The company does not test on animals and demands from their material suppliers not to test on animals. Nevertheless, they cannot guarantee that ingredients of a finished product haven’t been tested on animals, if REACH-Regulations require so.
You can read Edding’s statement concerning animal-testing, here.
Source: mail contact
Here is my information sheet, that I send out to all the companies.
Hi there,
here is the updated Gelli Arts information about their Gelli Plates:
Gelli Arts confirmed that the Gelli Plates are still vegan-friendly and are still cruelty-free, staying the same as four years ago.
Four years ago, the statement was that Gelli Arts is cruelty-free, they don’t test on animals and don’t commission any other parties to do so. Materials used in the Gelli Plates are free of animal testing. Gelli plates are free of animal derivatives.
Source: mail contact
Here is my information sheet, I send out to all companies.
Here is the summary of Mont Marte‘s reply:
products containing animal derived ingredients:
Mont Marte’s paints do not contain cadmium or cobalt; the colour names are only based on historical and traditional oil paint colour names.
Source: Mail Contact; website
Here is my information sheet, I send out to all the companies.
I summarize the information that a company decides to share with me. It is up to you, the reader, what you make out of this information.
Hello there,
I have sent out more enquiries to companies, concerning updating their profile on here;because they brought out new products . There are also companies I have written to for the first time.
Here is the lot of them:
You find a list of Faber-Castell’s products here.
I think those are all at the moment that I’ve written.
Although I am working my way through updating all my entries (please bear in mind that if I didn’t attach any date to an entry in the compendium, the information could reach back as far as 2017), I am open to hearing from you any companies you want me to write to. I’ll put them first. I know what time of year it is and if you are looking present-wise for your wishlist or someone else, or just because you need to let out your creativity, tell me about the company (maybe mention what product range as well, if they offer many); of course we need also to factor in the time it can take a company to reply. So the sooner, the better.
You reach me here mail@veganartstuff.info
I sent out an enquiry to Edding; to update my information in the compendium.
Hello there,
I was asked about glitter ,free of animal derivatives, only hours after I just saw an article about it. I am not a glitter person myself, I find it too dangerous around animals, children, everyone with eyes really.
So today I stumbled over a headline that they are now making biodegradable glitter out of cellulose. When I looked the information up in my search engine later, not only articles, such as this one on phys.org popped up, but also companies that state, their products are “vegan, cruelty-free” and biodegradable. I used quotation marks for a reason, because we all know how these words have not one set-in-stone definition (see here for detailed information), that everyone will reference to.
In the past (2018) I had the information of Culture Hustle offering glitter made out of glass (free of animal derivatives); but again, old news and you definitely want to protect your health. You don’t want miniscule glass shards in your eyes, on your skin, in your lungs… I mean this goes for all kinds of glitter. Think also about your scanner. That’ll scratch the surface up nicely. I doubt it will show up, once scanned in.
I do remember ages ago (maybe 15 years ago) a segment about glitter on Rachel Ray, how you have to swaddle a child in a blanket, burrito style, to stop them from rubbing their eyes and really doing great harm to their corneas. And then you have to rinse out the eyes with water or sterile saline solution (the latter probably nicer on the eyes). Imagine having to do that with a wiggly child or animal. No thanks. And then schlepping them to an eye specialist; or yourself to one. Here is an article about foreign bodies in eyes. (Disclaimer: I am not giving you medical advice)
If you live in a country that experiences cold winters, you get glitter for free and harmless to your eyes in frost form. Feast your eyes on the sparkling veil covering delicately every surface. You can even capture it on camera. No man made glitter can surpass frost.
Uni Mitsubishi (Signo gel pens) and Pilot did choose not to disclose information about their products and companies (information on Uni : 2017; newest information on Pilot: 2021)
Faber-Castell is a distributor for Uni Ball and informed me (April 2021) that all the Uni Ball products they distribute, are free of animal derivatives; however, this concerns only the materials not Uni’s status (concerning the cruelty-free topic);
Speaking of Faber-Castell, these might work for you:
Those are just examples (information from 2021); of course you can use any gouache or acylic paint (or pens, pastels, …) free of animal ingredients; my other brand informations on e.g. Culture Hustle (Stuart Semple), Liquitex , Golden Paints, Qor Watercolors and others are older (2017, 2018) , but you might want to look into them.
It depends also on what surface and other medium you are working with. I for example used gelatos in the past on canvas and like Pitt pastel pencils over watercolour and alcohol marker.
Hello everyone,
I just sent out enquiries to Chameleon Pens for an information update (2017 entry ) as well as enquiries to Tim Holtz (about Distress Ink pads) and Tsukineko (ink pads; Memento, Brilliance, Versafine).
If you know about other ink pad brands, you want me to look into, please don’t hesitate to let me know.