subject: How To Get Homemade Paint? [print this page] TV commercials and banners drive us more and more toward buying the things we need instead of trying to make them on our own. The lack of time is also a reason to go shopping instead of wasting time for manufacturing what we need. A working mother wont spend hours in the kitchen before her childrens birthday parties. Instead she will call the caterer, or buy fast food and a nice cake. Your granny wont miss her soap-opera to knit socks. She can buy them at the shop. The decorator will not start making paint, but rather run to the paint-store to buy whatever he needs.
Before our highly commercial era, people used to make their own paint for their houses or fences. The main ingredient was flour and the color was given by natural pigments. They were all sharing the knowledge of how to make paint and they each decorated their own homes.
In the present days we can still encounter people who enjoy making their own paint. Most of the ingredients can be purchased from ceramic material suppliers. Different substances like clay or starch can contribute to the creation of a paint. For clay paint the recipe also includes: wheat, rice, rye, or potato flour; water, powdered clay and inert powder filler. A special type of homemade paint is called milk paint or casein paint. Its composition consists of: curds, lime putty, water and pigment. This type of paint appears usually in artists studios because it can contribute and adapt to the work of art.
Children are also very fond of making paint. Their creativity is highly stimulated by bringing together and mixing the ingredients for their paint. They enjoy very much using this paint in their artistic projects. The materials they use in creating paint are very funny; for example they can make paint out of : soap flakes , with water and liquid starch. Or they can mix powdered milk, water and powdered tempera for pigment. Many of these paints are harmless even when ingested.
Although these two categories enjoy using homemade paint, its practical use is rather reduced. For more important painting projects normal paint remains the best choice. It is reliable when it comes to water resistance and it can satisfy all requirements. The idea that paint smells can be forgotten because producers have created types of paint with low-toxicity which have no smell at all.
