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Stefan Thompson

(images and text courtesy of Stefan Thompson)

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Non-toxic Artworks
by Stefan Thompson
Ottawa, Canada
Mediums: Non-toxic materials, trying to use as much recycled stuff as possible from paper to frames and striving for sustainability.

How to make Non-toxic Artwork:

“We all live downstream” I read this the other day on a green party bumper sticker. It’s a reality that propelled me to change my how I created art. Somehow I just couldn’t shake the sight of my brown, metal and poly filled paint water going down the drain.

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It’s been a couple of years now that I’ve been making my own paints and using non-toxic materials for my art. If I could get any point across, it would be this: Its easy. Making non-toxic art is not as hard as you might think. All that it really requires is that you believe you can do it. That’s the hardest part. When I first decided to give it a shot, I was scared that it could mean the end of making art as a living. I knew that some colours would not be easy to make non-toxic, and I wasn’t sure if people would catch on to my new style of work. It’s true, in general my art is less colourful, that’s one sacrifice. But I’ve found solutions to this as well, by using recycled fabric, paper collage and the non-toxic organic pigments found in crayons I now have a workable palette.

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For every door that I closed, a new door opened. I now use methods that I might never have tried otherwise; fabric mache, wheat and milk pasting, collage, wax and wood carving, wood burning, egg tempera, oils, and sewing. As well as mixing my own paints, I’m now working on making my own pigments, mediums and crayons. If you’re not up for mixing paints, just buying paints with less toxic mediums and pigments will make your palette far greener. So don’t worry, its easy! To learn more visit

www.stefanthompson.com.





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