is it safe to eat paint?
 

I want to make paintings where I eat paint and vomit it up.

haha thanks.

Yeah, I know not all paint is safe, I guess I was just asking for what kinds of paint I can eat to do this, or if it's been done before.

You're right, kid's paint is probably really safe.

I want to do this, blood paintings, and semen paintings. I'm doing a screening for all my films in a theater in March 2010 and I'm planning on selling my paintings there too. I'll make sure and post whatever I come up with.

those are gonna smell nice.


fucking genius idea though. you should lacquer them after your throwup dries.

i almost took a swig from a bottle of linseed oil the other day. i was drinking bottled water while painting... i was so absorbed in what i was doing i brought the bottle to my lips before realizing... linseed oil smells good (i think) but it's pretty nasty on your lips...

her stupid tattoo ruins that picture

I wouldn't ingest anything from an art supplies store. Your safest bet would be making your own food based dyes and using those. Cabbage/beetroot, carrot, hmm whats green.. you get the idea..

see, you want to only eat the old paint, the kind chipping and pealing off of window seals. The older, the more time for the flavor of the lead inside to mature. mmmmmmm, lead

as far as your idea..... they will all turn out looking like watercolor paintings?

perhaps.

I won't actually "paint" with them, just puke on the canvas and let it dry. I like the idea of it being sorta random.

For colourfastness you might want to photograph and make prints ? Anything like that would have minimal longevity unless you spent a lot of time looking at how to er, preserve what is left on the canvas.

I think its gross btw but just trying to help!!

Of course it is. What a stupid question.

Heh.

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Student Says Vomiting on Painting Was an Artistic Act

By ANTHONY DePALMA

Published: Wednesday, December 4, 1996

When a museumgoer vomited on a Mondrian masterwork at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last month, museum officials called it ''an unfortunate incident'' and said the young man involved had apparently not done anything deliberate to harm the painting.

But now the man, a 22-year-old Toronto art student, has acknowledged that he intentionally defaced the painting, ''Composition in Red, White and Blue,'' in what he contended was an artistic statement about ''oppressively trite and painfully banal'' art.


http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/ny...istic-act.html

Not unless you wanna end up like this buffoon.

hahah awesome, i fucking hate mondrian. de stijl is the worst cop out excuse for art. i think really i just hate primary colors though.


fuck those jeans btw. i can make those in 5 minutes plus theyd look way doper if i did it. wtf is that color in there, PEACH?? NO ONE LIKES PEACH.

it's been done.

MANY times.

but if you wanna go ahead, tempera paint would be good, but there is no way to know how the paint binder will react to the hydrochloic acid n your stomach, not to mention the forced ingestion, and the forced vomiting could hurt you bad.

remember, the process is pointless if that is the whole of the artwork.

Okay.

But, if it looks cool, I don't really care about the process or any other aesthetic quality.

adam don't eat tempera paint. I don't know why he posted this. Are you taking the piss?? Just because it's water based doesn't mean the pigments aren't toxic. Jesus.

FYI Rob in case you were being serious. And adam for your general reading. Lots of pigments are very toxic even with skin contact, they can contain heavy metals, others are carcinogenic. All of them should be handled carfully if especially if you are using them in powder form. Please be careful.

http://www.eggtempera.com/health.html

dude, he's gonna throw it back up anyway

Did you eat paint chips as a kid?

doesn't matter!

and, I would definately get health insurance before you start doing this.

it's very likely that you eat colourants every day.

that is true. But generally speaking what is found in pigments is not found in food stuffs, or in levels anywhere near so high. One is made for eating, one is not.

I wouldn't do it, because as mentioned already it could affect your stomach (outside of you vomiting it up, of course) pretty badly. Of course, if a possible hospital visit doesn't scare you, and you really want to create this style of art, then proceed with heavy caution I'd say.

~Jeremy~

I meant tempera paint, the kind kids use for fingerpainting. it is non toxic.

i think adam should film his meeting with a health insurance agent and explaining what he intends to do.

hahahaha.

That's pretty brilliant dave.

i'd watch it

reminds me of this

it's a part from a belgian comedy show, they made these fake reports on people or happenings, often kind of sad. this one is about a housewife who joins a kind of artist hobby club and starts making painting while throwing up. watch it till the end, it gets awesome!

at one moment she says something like 'well yeah sometimes we eat the same thing a few days in a row, like now i'm working on a sunset so we have a lotof tomatoes, corn, carrots, that sort of thing.'

true to the extreme.

eat a lot of cobalt blue oil paint

then share yr cancer stories.

;)

om nom nom nom.

paint them down with paint containing led for extra effect.

we once had an american teacher giving an oil painting class. apparently she's not allowed to teach unless the rooms have a certain ventilation system. you should have seen her face when we told her the windows didn't even open in this classroom. after six hours, every single student and the teacher were... quite high.

dude yeah, eat crayola shit.

or just drink food dye and herf it up.