I’m starting a new page which will hopefully become a useful resource for those interested in vegan art supplies, materials which are not harmful to the environment or tested on animals, and Do-It-Yourself projects. I receive blog reads almost every single day from internet searches for “vegan art supplies,” so I can see that there’s starting to be a significant interest in the topic. I hope this page can be a useful supplement to some of the other very informative resources on-line for vegan art.
Please stay tuned for updates, as I make individual pages related to such topics as Painting, Screen Printing, Home-made Paper, Alternatives to Animal Testing, and so on. I would gladly appreciate reader input, suggestions, and information about art techniques, environmentally-friendly art supplies, and vegan artists too! Please help me make this a useful and comprehensive resource.
Paints
Acrylic
Oils
Tempera
Gesso
Drawing materials (chalk, oil pastel, charcoal, etc.)
Printmaking
Brushes
Paper, canvas, and other supports
Fixatives and varnishes
Mixed Media and other Techniques
Body Art (tattoos and tattoo ink, cleaning products, etc.)
Do-It-Yourself Projects
1. DIY ‘Silk’ Screen Printing:
Fun with Silk Screen, vegan-style
2. DIY Print-making
Tutorial: Make your own botanical rubber stamps
3. Home-made Paper
4. Self-Publishing: Zines, Little Books
Resources and further reading
The Color of Art – Pigments, Paints and Formulas – An excellent resource with information such as paint toxicity, lightfastness, historical origins, and chemical composition – that means if it comes from animal, plant, mineral, or synthetic origins. For example, did you know that Burnt Carmine and Crimson Lake come from extracting a pigment from crushed cochineal insects? This informative website also gives information on making your own paints, recipes and formulas for giving paints useful properties (many of which, however, use animal products), and links to free art reference books which can be downloaded in PDF format.
Printed with non-toxic printing ink on recycled paper, then turned into an "Obamicon"
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I’m trying to come up with vegan pastel paper, hopefully something similar to Canson Mi-Teinte only gelatin-free. Any ideas?
Sorry, off-hand I don’t have any ideas! I don’t work with pastels. Will try to come back to you on this one.
Good luck!!
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i love art and i have been vegan for a while and i never thought my art supplies would do harm thank you
i need to read up!
Hi,
Thanks for your comment and for all you do for the animals as a vegan!
You mentioned wanting to read up on the issue, I have to update this page to mention some very fine resources such as
http://emptyeasel.com/2009/01/29/the-vegans-list-of-art-supplies-art-products-free-of-animal-ingredients/
http://wavesandoceans.wordpress.com/vegan-art-supplies/
http://veganartsupplies.blogspot.ca/
Good luck and happy creating!!
J.
Hello, I’d like to tell you that Daler Rowney have confirmed that they no longer use gelatine in their paper products barring Langton Prestige. Here’s their email via pastebin. http://pastebin.com/eBDHgFpM
Hope this helps.
Hey,
Thank you so much for this! I appreciate the information!
Plaid have told me that their products do not contain animal ingredients – just need to find UK stockists of their textile medium now – not an easy task!
Dylon have also told me that their fabric dyes contain no animal ingredients.
People can check out my twitter feed @calamitycrafts as I am trying to post news of my hunt for animal free art supplies on there! Anyone wanting copies of emails just let me know – happy to forward!
The more people that share vegan info. the easier we make it for other vegans
Thank you for your help and input! I don’t have the time to update my page at the moment but I really appreciate all the information. There is so much more I would like to do with this information page as I have discovered more great people sharing the results of their research about art materials. As you say, the more the merrier! Thanks again.