@theartguy I was amazed by all of the health and safety precautions. I can see why you can't do this with kids.

@jdb In college we were told that turpentine was too toxic a solvent, so we had to use a safer alternative ... that was still incredibly toxic. Same case in the serigraphy lab, although the year I left they scrapped the oil based inks in favor of water based ones.

@theartguy Had to look up serigraphy. I wish I'd had an art education. Sometimes.

@jdb Then I am partly responsible for you learning something new. That makes this a good day.

And you're clearly getting an art education now, so it's all good.

@theartguy @jdb @CountZero @Curator gouache or acrylic?

@eylul @theartguy @CountZero @Curator Oil. Even though I was the only first-time student in the class, I think the idea, along with figuring out tones, was to introduce working with mediums and solvents.

Next week: the Zorn palette!

@jdb @CountZero @Curator oh no I meant as alternative for @theartguy who mentioned the toxic solvent issue. ;)

(too many conversations)

@eylul @jdb @CountZero @Curator Ah, neither. Dick Blick makes silkscreen inks designed to be water soluble. The painting lab didn't switch away from oils, though.