Are oil paints and colored oils harmful to human health?

It is harmful to some extent.

1. Diluents and pigment additives pollute the air and people are injured by the respiratory tract. It is recommended to strengthen ventilation.

2, contact paint thinner, additives, etc. People are harmed from the skin, so it is recommended to wash your hands frequently.

Oil paint is a special painting pigment for oil painting, which is made by adding oil to pigment powder and stirring and grinding it with glue. Most of the products sold in the market are packed in tubes, and you can also make them yourself. The basic components of oil painting pigments, like other painting pigments, are composed of pigments, solid pigments, color carriers and some auxiliary materials such as molding agents, stabilizers, slow-drying agents or driers. Most of the pigment powder used by ancient masters came from soil and minerals. The other part comes from plants or animals.

"Color oil" is the medium oil of oil painting, which is mainly used to dilute oil painting pigments. When used in painting, it can increase the gloss of color, control the drying speed of color, and at the same time, it can use its fluidity to achieve the required painting effect. There are common color oil with average drying speed, quick-drying oil with faster drying speed and linseed oil with slower color drying, which are used according to different performance processes.

Oils used as color media can be divided into two categories: one is volatile oil, such as turpentine, lavender oil and refined gasoline. Second, drying oil, such as poppy oil, linseed oil, walnut oil, safflower oil and sunflower oil. Different oils have different functions. To master oil painting techniques, we must know how to use color media.