Helpful Advice on disposing of paint waste water

Evaporative Bucket:

Evaporate it… Pour it into an Evaporative Bucket. (this tip came from Kevin Tobin of Golden Paints).


Take a bucket and put some sand in there. Put it in your garage, on your back porch.. or under a low hanging eve. You want to avoid rain getting into your bucket. When you pour your dirty water in, the sand traps the paint and the water evaporates. Good for the environment and easy as can be. (no washing the sink after you’ve poured the paint water in)

Barn Sale: Inkwell

The inkwell I found at the River Road Barn Sale does not seem to have a tight closure so I put some ink in it, marked the ink level and watched to see how fast it evaporated.

The ink is S.J. Dupont Royal Blue and thus far I'd say the evaporation is minimal. If I dipped into this regularly over the course of several weeks, I doubt there would be much loss at all.

And the Dupont ink is a beautiful colour.