Publisher's Synopsis
The Artist Guide To Eco-friendly Art - The most comprehensive and practical guide to help you become an eco-friendly artist.
By implementing the well thought out advice and using the recommended products laid out in this book, every visual artist - from complete beginner to seasoned professional - will be able to comprehensively reduce the environmental impact and health risks associated with their creative arts practice.
The Artist Guide To Eco-friendly Art is the best resource for any artist or art teacher who is looking for a handbook to help them in the transition from using traditional toxic art materials to healthy and environmentally conscious art materials.
What you'll discover, and how this wonderful book is a must-have...
Understand what makes most art materials bad for us and the environment
Learn how to make your studio eco-friendly
Discover non-toxic paint brands - including the world's only high-quality, vegan, non-toxic and environmentally friendly acrylic paint brand.
Get to know which art supplies are vegan and cruelty-free
Benefit from smart, affordable and sustainable packaging choices
Immediately start filling your studio with eco-friendly art materials using the 100+ links to recommended products
... and much more!
Extensive Research By Award-Winning ArtistThis extremely handy guide has been developed out of the experiences, trial and error and several years of research by award-winning Australian artist and author Scott Denholm. He did all of the hard work sourcing the best materials from around the world, so that you don't have to.
Using the very materials recommended in this book - Scott has been creating his artwork completely environmentally-friendly for the past 10 years. He has also been mentoring fellow artists and consulting with art organisations on how best to minimize the environmental impact and ensure the safety of artists in their studios.
Over 100+ Recommended Art ProductsThe Artist Guide to Eco-Friendly Art contains links to over 100 recommended products that have been heavily researched, tried and tested - Saving you the exhaustive time and effort required to find and research through thousands of products.
Everything that most artists use is covered and explains the pros and cons including paint, brushes, canvas and other painting surfaces, varnish, easels, brush cleaner, palette knives, paper, sketchbooks, pencils, packaging and much much more.
Every aspect of a material's life cycle is considered on how it affects the health of artists and the environment including production, by-product waste, principal use and disposal.
Perfect for artists looking for information about where exactly to find:
Non-toxic paint brands - including the world's only high-quality, vegan, non-toxic and environmentally friendly acrylic paint brand.
Vegan art materials, including vegan brushes, vegan paint, vegan gesso, vegan size and more.
Eco-friendly artist canvas, including linen and hemp canvas.
Sustainable artist paper, including watercolor paper, pastel paper, sustainable recycled sketchbooks and art journals.
Following these guidelines will help you minimise the environmental and health impacts of your arts practice. And by all of us doing our part and backing responsible brands, we all put pressure on the industry as a whole to be more ethical and socially responsible.
