Making your own oil paint.

[Almighty Chris]

Does anybody here have any experience with making their own oil paints? Some helpful tips, safety precautions? I got the basic muller dispersing pigment into vehicle principle but there must be alot more to know about it than that!
Also, anybody recommend gloves to use when oil painting that can protect my hands from getting paint on them and also feel more comfortable than say, latex gloves?
Thanks : D

[m0n3y]

Making oil paint is really very simple, the difficult part is getting it just right. All pigments behave differently in oil, some are hard to mill, others very easy and some dont seem to like bing in oil at all. I use a very limited pallet generally, so I know a few pigments very well. It can be very time consuming to get the perfect consistency for your taste, and be able to reproduce that every time you make the paint. Keep in mind that hand made oil paint, in the case of most pigments, is not really the same as the stuff you buy in a tube, as they will add fillers/wax ect. Hand made oil paint is generally far more fluid.
One very very important thing is to make sure you have the highest quality cold pressed linseed oil that you can get your hands on.
Metal based pigments are great to mill, because they are very easy to clean up, where as Organic pigments are a pain in the neck to clean up because they stain everything, usually taking 3-4 wipedowns.
I dont have much safety advice, other than dont throw the stuff around. I use Lead white, and I just take particular care when im using it, throw the rags away I have used for whipping down the tools and wash my hands directly afterwards. Appart from the lead, all the other pigments I use are on the whole, quite safe.
I make all my paint fresh, every day before working(most colours need this), and it can be quite time consuming, but after a while you can get it dont quite quickly. Once you have it figured out how much oil is needed for each type of pigment, you can speed it up a lot.

[Burl]

I looked into this stuff a little for my current college project. Try checking out http://www.paintmaking.com/

[arttorney]

I wear vinyl gloves because the talcum powder in the latex gloves drives me nuts. The vinyl gloves, on the other hand, drive most people nuts because they are not elastic in the way the latex ones are. They don't retract down snugly against your hand like a rubber band. You can get used to that though. Try vinyl and see if you like it.

A respirator might come in handy to keep you from breathing a lot of lead into your lungs.

[Almighty Chris]

Thanks alot everybody, the link was very helpful. :]