Watching a guy make a Rembrandt master copy and he’s making his own oil paint, even lead white and vermillion which are poisonous. He mashes in the pigments in the oil with no gloves or mask and then leaves the tops off the fucking jars of raw pigment. I keep staring at the jars.
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Yes, not fumes though because lead is a metal so doesn't oxidize or evaporate. It's a dust though so any wind or fan can spew it into the air and there is no safe level of lead: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/acclpp/blood_lead_levels.htm … People don't understand the significance of that:
Otherwise, mostly things in oil paint don't give off toxic fumes. Some people are sensitive to the smell, but oil paint is basically a food (nut oil). Solvents now don't give off much. The real exposure is getting it in/on your skin or in mouth/eyes.