Campap relayed that their papers are free of animal derivatives.
No further information given, concerning cruelty-free status and whether the information only concerns the finished product or the manufacturing cycle as well.
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)
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.
left side: tip-to-tip transfer, on wet surface; right side: paper-to-brush transfer+wet brush over applied colour