Comment on Discussion Thread 🧶 Monday 1 December 2025

• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s actually a really good idea. Maybe I can wait till I’ve binned the used litter and tip the dirty paint water in the bin on top of it.

  Just a bit worried because it may contaminate quite a lot of water during the cleaning, too much to absorb without wasting expensive clean litter, as a review said that soap and water cleaning was very inefficient and they ended up eventually resorting to solvent or linseed oil anyway. And the ‘soluble’ paints didn’t thin well with water.

  Safety ramble

  I could use a few drops of linseed oil for thinning only and wash brushes with odour free solvent with all the fans going full blast, but that’s like doing traditional oil paints anyway and really does seem like it needs a studio and safety measures I don’t have. If not for me, for my cat. She likes to be right in the thick of things. And the cost of the materials… Evaporation and disposal of the solids is possible but not practical in a small space and if there’s a lot of liquid. Acrylics are a lot more practical in every way but I just really don’t enjoy working with them. They’re so thin and smeary, low quality and streaky.

  Ah well… I do have to learn to draw worth a damn before I begin painting anyway.

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