You have piqued my interest, oil paints are going to be made safe for schools and I now want to know how they formulate all the colours.
From what I understand you can get many things out of crude oil but you can't just rearrange a few hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms to get any colour in the sRGB colour space. So what is the science of safe paints? Got to know now.
Re:Has the world become less colourful?
by marcosdumay on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:22PM
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I don't know all the details, some were pretty hidden. I just looked because I saw a "non-toxic" label and doubted it.
I remember the dies that I could understand are mostly organic (and thus, may have a limited lifetime). There were many that I gave-up understanding the composition.
Anyway, I brought those in 2013. Things may have improved.
Last time I brought an oil palette and looked at the paints composition, the most toxic thing I could find was copper. And it was as colorful as any oil palette.