Make Paint Easily
Do you want to make paint the easy way, using household items that are readily available? If you're bored with conventional paint and want to mix it up a bit, you've landed on the right page. In this article, we'll discuss to how to make several different kinds of paint the fast and easy way, ending with a dependable final product. Read on for more information.
Ingredients
Method One: Chalk Paint
- 2 large resealable plastic bags
- Colored chalk
- 1 tablespoon white glue
- Water
Method Two: Builders' Lime Paint
- {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} skim milk
- 2 cups builders' lime (not quick lime)
- 1 quart linseed oil (the boiled type)
- 1/2 cup salt
- Dye (food coloring will do)
- Cheesecloth
Method Three: Powdered Milk Paint
- 1/2 cup powdered milk
- 1/2 cup water
- Powdered tempera
- Cheesecloth
Method Four: Emulsified Egg Paint
- 1 egg
- Linseed oil
- Water
- Dye (ground earth pigment will do)
Method Five: Glue Paint
- Lined paper
- Markers
- White glue
Steps
Chalk Paint
- Place one resealable plastic bag inside another. Use large, "freezer" bags that aren't porous.
- Place the colored chalk inside the bags and seal tightly.
- With a hammer, gently break up the chalk until it forms a fine powder. You may need to hammer the chalk for several minutes to get the powdery consistency you want.
- Break up the chalk as much as possible. Lumpy chalk will mean lumpy paint; powdery chalk will give you finer, smoother paint.
- If you wish, add another color chalk to the bag and form a color mixture.
- Pour the powder into a paint container or other clean container.
- Adding water with a teaspoon, mix the chalk with a whisk or stick to form a fine paste. The finer the paste, the smoother your paint will eventually be.
- Add the glue to the paste and mix thoroughly.
- Stirring constantly, add water until you get the consistency wanted. It may take 3 or more tablespoons of water to achieve the wanted consistency. Try to get the paint the consistency of a white glue, or perhaps thinner.
Builders' Lime Paint
- Add the wet ingredients together. Add the skin milk, linseed oil, and dye together. The oil and milk won't incorporate yet — don't worry about it yet, it will mix later.
- Add the dry ingredients together. Add the builders' lime and salt together and mix well.
- Incorporate the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Stir well. If possible, use a hand mixer (normally used to mix cake batter) to incorporate the ingredients until they are well blended. Start the hand mixer on low speed before moving to faster speed.
- Add more dye or more milk if necessary during this step. If you are unhappy with the color of the paint, add more dye to intensify the color of the paint. Add more milk to mellow out paint that's too intense.
- Strain paint through cheesecloth to remove any large clumps. For a smoother consistency, strain the paint through cheesecloth.
- Use paint within a day or two. Store in a cool area.
Powdered Milk Paint
- Mix all ingredients. You can purchase powdered tempera in individual colors or in color sets. If you wish to, experiment with mixing tempera powders to achieve the color you want.
- If possible, use a hand mixer to incorporate the ingredients until they are well blended.
- Strain through cheesecloth to remove any large clumps.
- Store paint in a cool area (such as a refrigerator) for several days. Use within several days for best results.
Emulsified Egg Paint
- Break a whole egg into a large, clean jam jar. Close the lid to the jar tightly and shake well, until the egg is completely broken apart.
- Using the half shell of your egg as a measuring tool, add 4 half shells of linseed oil to the egg mixture. Seal the jam jar tightly and shake vigorously, until the egg and the oil have emulsified together.
- Add 6 half shells of water to the emulsification. Seal jar tightly and mix well again.
- Add any coloring to the egg mixture. Before adding the coloring to the mixture, pour out a small bit of the emulsification and experiment with colors. A little color goes a long way.
- Store paint for up to a week in a refrigerated area.
Glue Paint
- Choose your paper. If you want the paint to be thick, then use lined paper, and fold it at least two times. If you want it to be thin, use printer paper. The reason lined paper, though it doesn't seem like it, gives thicker paint is that lined paper is softer, and particles in the paper will get in the paint and make it thicker.
- Choose a marker. The newer, the better. Color onto the paper until you are sure it is dark enough.
- Put glue onto the paper. Use the back of a pen, or something like that, to stir it. Stir until the desired color is made.
- Wash the back of the pen after use.
Things You'll Need
- Chalk
- Water
- Small Cup
- Knife (or something to "shave" the chalk with)
