Growing pumpkins and now marbling in Keane, NM. Fabulous, I like associating both activities with "Live Free or Die!"
The process of floating color on water when used with solvents that evaporate are unhealthy to the artist and the environment. Granted there was a high I got from the solvents but it had to be countered by consumption other drugs or alcohol. Old time painters with even turpentine had a high rate of alcoholism.
Large surface evaporating solvent marblingthat I was doing was banned in L.A., California forty of fifty years ago. The heavy metal based pigments that I used were for outdoor sign painting at that time were also banned shortly after that.
