The art junkie is dead? (Referring to comic strip X eyes which usually indicate the character is deceased.) Many artists have suffered for their work, but unless they were eating their materials, they don’t usually die.
some artists I knew “pointed” their fine sables by licking. The result was a colorful tongue coated in heavy metals. Safety from the pigment was guaranteed by the medium. Or so they were told.
I remember seeing an article by some art historian claiming Vincent Van Gogh’s mental illness was the result of lead poisoning. caused by his habit of sucking on his brushes. Thinking about it makes me cringe. Even if the paint is no longer toxic, solvents for cleaning brushes still are.
Or as my mother used to say, if you wouldn’t use it to eat with, it doesn’t belong in your mouth.
Ersatz Lascaux
could be an office supplies junkie
(although I must admit it isn’t looking like one)
here’s to all us junkies on the corner of common and universal
The art junkie is dead? (Referring to comic strip X eyes which usually indicate the character is deceased.) Many artists have suffered for their work, but unless they were eating their materials, they don’t usually die.
From art, that is.
some artists I knew “pointed” their fine sables by licking. The result was a colorful tongue coated in heavy metals. Safety from the pigment was guaranteed by the medium. Or so they were told.
I remember seeing an article by some art historian claiming Vincent Van Gogh’s mental illness was the result of lead poisoning. caused by his habit of sucking on his brushes. Thinking about it makes me cringe. Even if the paint is no longer toxic, solvents for cleaning brushes still are.
Or as my mother used to say, if you wouldn’t use it to eat with, it doesn’t belong in your mouth.
as it turns out, there is no safety
in art neither