Painting Your Studio Green: Safety in the Studio
Wednesday, Octoer 22, 2008, 6:30-8:00pm
Speaker: Stacy Miller
Many materials artists use in their everyday practice can be potentially harmful to both their health and the environment, but the biggest danger is lack of information. Remaining knowledgeable and vigilant of things such as appropriate storage of materials, cleaning, disposal, proper ventilation, etc is imperative to preventing long-term damage to both your health and the environment. Stacy Miller, working artist and professor at Parsons, will provide step-by-step guide on how you can effectively use your materials, no matter your chosen media, while remaining safe, healthy and environmentally conscious.
And I'm going to start using use Gambin Artists' oil paints since they manufacture in "a wind-powered, energy efficient facility, focus on reducing the carbon footprint, while making safety a priority, for the artist and the environment."
I've always wanted to use metallic colors in my work to enhance the light. However, metallic oils are not easy to find. Since I've decided to experiment with materials and apply collage in this new series, I will paint some of the Greenhouse pieces in Acrylic (its a more sufficient medium for collage, less expensive for experimentation and comes in a wide variety of metallics.)
I really like Golden Artists Colors Acrylic Metallic and Interference paints and I can't wait to use them. GOLDEN is eco ambitious as well and receives Environmental Investment Program Incentive. I also think the metallic look will enhance the industry, mechanic feel of the architectural references (to further contrast and play with the greenery; creating the 'green city' dialogue so to speak).
This is the revised digital drawing "green line map plan" for the first few paintings. Picture the yellow to be gold metallic and the black architectural references to be rustic gray metallic with iridescent pearl and silver lights!
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