Paint eaters anonymous.

[GhostMalone]

I can vouch that I still drink my coffee and/or scotch when I miss place the paint pot.

 

But I do a lot of concreting so I just consider it another taste to add to my already complex taste palett

[JeffTibbetts]

This thread has bee endlessly entertaining. A expose of the side of the hobby that many of us are familiar with, yet rarely talk about.

 

We should send it to tabloids.

[chaplainmikey]

I'm guilty too. Can't help it if I need to get the brush to a point, I mean really, who wants to waste time washing the brush. :P 

 

P.S. Lahmian Medium=Disgusting taste! ;)

[Rhetoricus]

I too am a paint eater. I usually do it alone where no on else can see. Although me and Chaplainmikey once ate paint together. (He can't handle his Lahmian Medium, young uns eh :P)

[chaplainmikey]

 

 Although me and Chaplainmikey once ate paint together. 

 

I can see this being discussed on a Psychiatrist's couch some day...

[Hyaenidae]

I used to be quite blase about getting paint into my mouth, thinking it was non-toxic and I would be fine. Then someone on another forum was very ill due to ingesting paint from brush licking and it shocked me into changing my habits. Hearing about someone spending a month off work due to paint poisoning will do that. I used to quickly rinse my brushes in water before using my lips to point the brush, which would often result in some of the moisture from the brush getting into my mouth. I was also quite lax about changing the water while I painted and although it rarely had an effect on the colours (i'd only really change before I painted white), it most certainly had an effect on the amount of paint I got in my mouth from the residual water on the brush. I used to be able to identify which paint range/type i'd been using by taste alone.

 

I do still point my brush with my lips, but not until it's been thoroughly rinsed in clean water (which is regularly changed) and dried on a paper towel to absorb most of the moisture. I probably still get a miniscule amount of paint in my mouth - that's inevitable if you ever use your lips to point a brush, but it's not enough for me to notice. I couldn't tell you how any of the paints I use taste now, which is a good sign because it only takes a tiny amount of paint on the brush to make your entire mouth fill with the taste.

 

Been nibbling paint for 15 years. Ain't had a problem yet.

 

*twitch twitch*

[Disruptor_fe404]

Yet.

[GhostMalone]

I'm guilty too. Can't help it if I need to get the brush to a point, I mean really, who wants to waste time washing the brush. :P

 

P.S. Lahmian Medium=Disgusting taste! ;)

So is liquid green stuff

 

PVA glue

 

And ardcoat.....

 

Think I have problem

[mactire]

I rinse very thoroughly before I suck/shape, so therefore I consider my self as a " responsible paint eater ". .

However my son and daughter (8 & 12) now like to dabble with painting, which unfortunately seems to include under-age paint eating . This seems to validate the old saying "monkey see monkey do".

[geektom]

I use my mouth to re-make a point on my brushes after I rinse them in the water and before I put them away... Is that the paint eater equivalent of ".., but I didn't inhale"?