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    SGH360
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        Is it necessary to have a spray booth when I use watercolor, gouche paint on an airbrush?

        Is the over spray using this media?

        #1171981
        Airscapes
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            It is best if you use a respirator or dust mask but you are safe to play without a spray boot using water based paints.

            #1171984
            SGH360
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                What about acrylic paints?

                #1171982
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                    What about acrylic paints?

                    Acrylic is water based, so yes.

                    #1171983
                    Taras
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                        You get overspray with any type of paint. Water-based paints do not have a high VOC content but you can compare breathing overspray to breathing dust. I have a home studio with no extraction but I keep the windows open as much as I can and use a cartridge mask. I guess it’s OK if you are doing a small piece and not spraying too much. A few times though, working on anything bigger than A5, I stepped back and saw a cloud of overspray hanging around my work area. Now, this is water-based. With other types of paint you really want filters and an extraction system.

                        #1171987
                        DragonofGrey
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                            A mask is a good idea even if the paint is non toxic. I remember when I first started with an airbrush years ago I asked the same question…I was told not to worry about it since I was merely using acrylic paint. Well, I actually coughed up blue paint from my lungs for about 3 hours after I finished that painting session and blew blue snot out of my nose for 3 more days. Not fun. Since that experience a mask is a must. As for over spray settling on items in your work area or beyond, a spray booth may be a good idea. I did things the poor man’s way. I covered things with plastic tarps, closed open doors and opened the window. A window fan blowing out with a foam air conditioner filter taped to the back is great for catching over spray. For a number of years I also used an old beat up air purifier to catch over spray. But if you have the funds for a spray booth, go for it.

                            #1171985
                            AndreZA
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                                Spray booth not necessary but protection is advised but very few use it. I don’t and I’m sure I will feel it when I’m older. But my panels are small and and I paint at around 10-15psi. For big backgrounds I actually use rattle cans and do that outside.

                                #1171988
                                Rob’t Emmet
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                                    I airbrush outside the studio as much as possible ( about nine months out of the year ) and still wear a mask. Also read your acrylic containers warnings carefully…acrylic cadmium yellows and reds are toxic and should not be aerosolized. º¿º

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                                    #1171979
                                    hinddee29
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                                        Far as a spray booth I guess that depends where you are spraying? If your spraying anywhere your familly and friends gather yes use a spray booth or find a new location. It will help stop everything in the are getting a nice power coat of overspray.

                                        Now on to the bad advice of it’s only non toxic so no need to wear a REPORATOR with pink filters, NOT a dust mask. Waterborne paints unless stated other wise when turned to vapor has silica in it and WILL give you Silicosis. Also once your lungs get coated with water based product your body will not recover from it. Might has well go ahead and put a bag over your head now and get it over with. Just doesn’t make sense to NOT use the safety equipment.

                                        #1171986

                                        …Waterborne paints unless stated other wise when turned to vapor has silica in it and WILL give you Silicosis. Also once your lungs get coated with water based product your body will not recover from it…

                                        Good advice but it is the first I’ve heard of that particular problem. Can you elaborate, like which paint and how you found out? Silicosis is bad news!

                                        #1171980
                                        hinddee29
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                                            Good advice but it is the first I’ve heard of that particular problem. Can you elaborate, like which paint and how you found out? Silicosis is bad news!

                                            I am a Commercial Painter and almost all the guys that have been painting(spraying) for years have developed siliceous. Mostly because they don’t wear a respirator. I don’t believe it is listed on any airbrush paint that it contains crystalline silica, but if you look at a can of house paint it will be listed. Now this only affect you if the paint is vaporized into a spray.

                                            The odds of a hobbyist airbrusher getting siliceous is slim, but there is always a chance.

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