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Happy holidays to me. I just bought myself my holiday present. I dropped twenty bucks on getting heavy metals completely off of my watercolor palette.
Watercolor companies are all like 'we use local honey, hand grinding and ~pure pigments~' etc. But those pure pigments are often cadmium, nickel, cobalt, etc. It's particularly hard to do light blues without heavy metals. I bought a Daniel Smith Primatek light blue which is heavy metal free, but will also be granulating as hell. I will still have my cobalt pan if I really feel I need it, but at least I am not spreading cobalt around my desk and supplies every time I wet my palette. I also like not rinsing any heavy metals down the drain.
The amount of heavy metal a watercolorist uses in a lifetime is pretty trivial, but I like having it gone. Da Vinci makes an fully coordinated palette with no heavy metals. It's good if you have cats or other fuzzies that might try to drink your paint water. It's not tested a safe, but at least it's not toxic. I want that set. Making a non-toxic, heavy metal free light blue was the biggest challenge of making the palette.
I also bought a few odds and ends. I bought a Rhodia journal that I was going to use as a project tracker, but I also bought an Ooly craft paper journal I've wanted for a while. I think I am going to use the Ooly for project tracking as it's pages are perforated and meant to be torn out.
Then I walked around SE and then home. About 4 miles I think.
Watercolor companies are all like 'we use local honey, hand grinding and ~pure pigments~' etc. But those pure pigments are often cadmium, nickel, cobalt, etc. It's particularly hard to do light blues without heavy metals. I bought a Daniel Smith Primatek light blue which is heavy metal free, but will also be granulating as hell. I will still have my cobalt pan if I really feel I need it, but at least I am not spreading cobalt around my desk and supplies every time I wet my palette. I also like not rinsing any heavy metals down the drain.
The amount of heavy metal a watercolorist uses in a lifetime is pretty trivial, but I like having it gone. Da Vinci makes an fully coordinated palette with no heavy metals. It's good if you have cats or other fuzzies that might try to drink your paint water. It's not tested a safe, but at least it's not toxic. I want that set. Making a non-toxic, heavy metal free light blue was the biggest challenge of making the palette.
I also bought a few odds and ends. I bought a Rhodia journal that I was going to use as a project tracker, but I also bought an Ooly craft paper journal I've wanted for a while. I think I am going to use the Ooly for project tracking as it's pages are perforated and meant to be torn out.
Then I walked around SE and then home. About 4 miles I think.
