I've been vegan for a year, vegetarian for longer than that. I love painting miniatures for tabletop wargaming. (Warhammer 40k and the like) (to give an idea, this is my website with some work: www.miniaturenschilder.nl) However, my brushes with animal hairs are getting worn out and I. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about vegan paint brushes? Well you're in luck, because here they come. There are 250 vegan paint brushes for sale on Etsy, and they cost $16.31 on average. The most common vegan paint brushes material is wood. The most popular color? You guessed it: clear. Shop for Synthetic Oil & Acrylic Brushes. Finding high quality Oil and Acrylic synthetic brushes has long been a challenge for oil and acrylic painters or vegan artists. Jerry's has partnered with a leading synthetic hair manufacturers to craft and develop cruelty free brushes with all the benefits of natural hair and none of the drawbacks! Innovative high quality synthetic hair that mimics natural hair but is animal. Vegan paint brush sweets. If you're looking for sweets that are vegan, look no further than Simply Vegan Sweets online shop to buy veggie, halal, vegan pick and mix, vegan fudge, candy, vegan coconut ice, Turkish delight and vegan chocolate. Pick your own mix. All products cruelty, dairy & gelatine free. Brushes or bushy tails? Natural hair bristles are used for different types of painting and range from mammals such as; hog for oil painting and squirrel for wash brushes. Plus there's also camel, goat and pony hair all for various uses.
I am asked a lot about what my favourite brushes are, even more so now that I am running some online classes. So I made this video reviewing my top 3.
The first one is the ProArte Prolene Plus Series 007. This is my go-to brush and I can do everything with it, from soaking wet-in-wet to the driest dry brush work. Big washes and tiny details are equally tackled by this amazing brush, my favourite now for many years. It has good spring, it is well-balanced, and it has a good point without the bristles being too long. It isn’t very absorbent so it doesn’t carry too much paint, which in turn doesn’t flood my wet-in-wet washes.
Link to the Prolene Plus 007
In second place we have a newcomer to my brush pot: the Princeton Neptune faux squirrel brush. I tested it a few months ago and fell in love with it. It is extremely soft and allows me to layer wash after wash after glaze without lifting anything. It is lightweight and well-balanced and a pleasure to use but I find it too soft to do all the work, so it is on a time share with the 007.
Link to the Princeton Neptune
The third place goes to what could be considered a surprising choice: Major Brushes flat brush. The reason I say surprising is that this is a poor quality brush on the lower end of the watercolour brush price range. But this is exactly the point: It is stiff and scratchy, perfect for lifting paint. Because it comes in a tiny size (1/8 inch), it is perfect for lifting veins or highlights. Unfortunately I can only find it in the West Dean College shop but I have found an equivalent on the Jacksons’ website: the Handover synthetic Flat Brush.
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I had never considered the impact of the wargaming hobbyon animals, so I thought I’d look in to it.
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The two obvious places to start are paints and brushes.
In paints, ingredients from fish, bugs and cows can sneakin, like sepia ink, cochineal, ox gall, gelatin, shellac and bone char. There’sa few different brands of paints in my collection, and I asked themanufacturers about whether they contained animal ingredients.
Mike from Coat D'arms was the first to reply. He confirmedthat all their ingredients are synthetic, and mentioned that they’d been askedseveral times before. It is nice to know that I’m not the only one who cares!
Alex Vallejo from Acrylicos Vallejo said that they had a companypolicy to avoid using animal ingredients when possible, but they do have acouple items in their Fine Arts and Acrylic Artists Colour ranges that useshellac and bone char due to the lack of synthetic substitutes. Fortunately, theirmodel paints were free from squished bugs and burnt cow bones.
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Alex also pointed out their policy on REACH, the EUregulation that is requiring every chemical to undergo safety tests. Valajeohas consulted with their major chemical suppliers and with only a few very rareexceptions, all the REACH tests on the ingredients they buy are done on deadtissue only.
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Amy,who makes the MSP paints for Reaper Mini, said that she has never seen anyanimal-derived products in their bases or pigments. She also confirmed that,for Reaper’s models, thecompanies they work with use plastic resins, minerals, and inorganicchemicals only.
PrivateerPress said that all their Formula P3 paints are not testedanimalsand do not containanimalproducts.
Citadel was the only range that I didn't get a straight answerfor. Games Workshop customerservice said if I send them a list of the paints I want to use, they’d let meknow if they contain animal products. It struck me as weird as this seemsto be a question that these companies do get asked a lot, so I would have hopedthat a company as big as Games Workshop would have answers ready. I didn't wantto waste too much of their time listing off every paint in the range for anindividual answer, so I just left it at that.
So far, things look really positive for anyone wanting touse paints without harming animals. But brushes are a bit of an issue.
On the side of fine hobby brushes, you’ll probably see thatit is marked as “red sable”. Red sable fur comes from Siberian weasels, ananimal that lives in Russia and China. I couldn’t find many sources on howthese hairs are obtained. I emailed brush companies and even the fur industry’spress office. No answers. animalethics.org.uk was the only source of moreinformation I could find.
Apparently, these weasels are caught in leghold trapsor snares, and the pelts are sold to the brushmakers who pluck and sort thehairs. For me, this is particularly worrying. Fur is nasty and I know I’m not alonein thinking so. An RSPCA survey in 2011 showed that 95% of British people wouldnot wear real fur. And leghold traps are so cruel they were banned in England& Wales in the 1950s for being “too inhumane”. If something was so bad itwas considered inhumane 60 years ago, you know it must be terrible. Further tothat, Russia and China have minimal animal protection laws. In countries likeCanada or Denmark, in theory, animals should not be left in traps for more thana day (they end up trying to chew their own leg off or dying in some othergrisly way). China or Russia don’t have similar animal welfare standards.
It is bleak.
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So, the solution: Are there any synthetic brushes thatare up to the same standards? I’d love to hear thoughts on how well synthetic brushes hold up.
For my personal ethics, I’ll keep using my current set brushesfor now. According to the Vegan Society, 'Veganism is a way of living thatseeks to exclude, as far as possible and practicable, all forms of exploitationof, and cruelty to, animals..' Thewords “as far as possible and practicable” stand out for me there. I don’tthink compassionate people should opt out of the real world and move to a hippycommune or something. I think it is important to play an active role innon-vegan communities to demonstrate just how easy it is to live a cruelty-freelifestyle. So, for now, that means continuing to paint with fur brushes until Ifind a decent alternative, and I’ll also continue to advocate for animals by bringing delicious vegansnacks to game nights to impress friends.
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From a bigger perspective, it would be great to askcompanies to look in to their sourcing properly. Being the biggest name inwargaming, I’d love to know if Games Workshop knows where its fur comes from.And for them to adopt an official policy on trying to avoid animal products,like Vallejo has. And to know if the company has a stance on animal testing, includingthe compulsory REACH testing. If any animal-friendly Games Workshop shareholders are readingthis, perhaps this is something you could help with.