Making My Own Acrylic Paint With Powdered Pigments

In today's video I'm making my own acrylic paint with powdered pigments, or at least trying to make my own acrylic paint with powdered pigments!! Now I'd never really attempted to make my own acrylic paint, so I thought it was going to be a relatively easy process.... unfortunately I struggled quite a bit! I did end up with four different coloured acrylic paints, with varying levels of success. I think crushing up the powdered pigments together, before adding it to an acrylic base is the way to go, but I also think a liquid pigment could possibly make the acrylic paint making process a little easier! But let me know what your thoughts were on my DIY acrylic paints, and if you've ever made your own acrylic paint, then possibly leave me some tips in the comments section....just so I know for next time!

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[AnthonyCrammen]

I'm not sure I'll be getting into paint manufacturing anytime soon! 😅

[Dan.B.Artist]

Paint maker here! Well I make watercolours not acrylics but same process. Here's what i recommend. Firstly you need to wear a mask even if its a cloth mask, the powder can be really bad to breath in and dangerous if it's a toxic pigment like cadmium red, even if it's an earth pigment like an ochre you still dont want to be breathing that in. I also recommend using a acrylic binder rather than a medium, you'll get better results, I think jacksons or cornellisons sell them in the UK. For ratio i would suggest equal amounts of pigment to binder to start with. Go by volume rather than weighing as some pigments are heavier than others, 1 tbsp of 1 pigment could be 20g, same volume of another could be 50g. I would go with the pestle and mortar or a glass/marble chopping board, i've seen people be really creative with paint mullers such as using a flat glass door knob. Stirring with a stick means the pigment wont get broken down or mixed in enough to the binder, it really does need some grinding especially really gritty pigments. hope this help, happy paint making!

[augustjsb]

I'm sorry this is so long!! I did, however, write a formula for you to start and play around with.

This is like the first thing I actually have a lot of experience I make my own acrylic paints daily! I have actually worked with two of those mediums. I use Mica as my pigment, liquitex glazing medium, golden gac900 fabric medium, and water.

WARNING: I use mica so I don't grind my pigments. It would change how they reflect the light. I tend to make more "watery" paints because I use them more as a glue to hold the mica in place. I work in small batches, but they can easily be scaled up.

So first step is actually mixing your dry pigments together. Otherwise they well never mix together evenly. Weirdly enough you have to fortify your colors. For example to make orange. You'd use red, yellow and a bit of brown too. Because brown is darker, it was absorbs light and makes the paint more opaque. To allow the orange of the red and yellow to not have to compete with the color of the paper. Once you have your colors. The next step is adding water.

The amount of water added depends on how thick you want your paint to be. At the very least you want to add equal parts water and pigment, but I've found for my application (mostly airbrushing) doubling the amount of water to pigment is best. Basically the water gives you something to temporarily suspend the pigment particles in. It greatly improves the ease of mixing the pigment into the binder.

I use two mediums as my binder. The glazing medium because of it's quick drying time and ability to self level. The gac 900 because I paint synthetic hair extensions and it allows for a soft flexible paint film. I mix them 1:1 and keep the mixture in it own bottle. It's not necessary, but it speeds up the mixing process. You want to add three times the amount of binder to water.

On the note of mediums, I have worked with the Iridescent medium and the gac 100. The iridescent medium is technically clear, but the mica they add is a white-ish pearl. So any paint you mix needs to compensate for that. You need to use more pigment to cover the white mica and the pearl effect plays with the light refraction and will always slightly change the color of the paint depending on the angle the light from the paint hits your eyes. Unlike most mediums, GAC 100 isn't actually the weird jizz colored milky white you'd expect. It's actually just white, to aid in the opaque coloring of the paint. So you also need to add more pigment to over-compensate for the color of the medium itself.

1.25ml Red pigment
1.25ml Yellow pigment
.625ml Brown pigment
3.25ml Water
7.75ml Binder (I would recommend the third one you used. The one you said was gel like in consistency. The water will greatly improve the consistency.)

[artboxinsider]

Hi Anthony, if you have any pigments left i think you should give this another try, i make a lot of my own acrylic paint as a lot of even artist grade paints cheap-out on the pigment content and my preference is opaque af rather than transparent as sh*t when it comes to my paint.

The glass muller and a glass slab is required if you are wanting to make a really good quality paint as it is how you force the pigment into the binder (some pigments need more forcing than others due to chemical and physical properties of the pigments and binder, there are some pigments which are not compatible with water based binders and some not compatible with oil binders etc) you can however make a reasonable paint just by stirring the binder in with the pigment, but without mulling the paint will be less saturated and more prone to separating when stored.

Here's a tip for starting with the equipment you have, add the pigment to the mortar (the bowl part) then add a similar amount of binder and stir to a paste. Use the pestle to grind out any dry clumps of powder until the paste is as smooth as you can get it. Add binder a couple of drops at a time and mix again, you need surprising little binder to make paint and a really good paint will have a very high solids content of around 40% (thus those small pots of pigment will never create large amounts of acrylic paint and are probably aimed at artists making water colour pans) because many pigments have a high tinting strength, with those pigments, you can add an equal volume of powdered chalk (whiting) to the pigment (this is known as adding a filler) student grade and craft grade paints will most certainly contain some level of filler to keep costs down. Anyway once you have mixed in enough binder that the paste becomes brushable you have in effect created an acrylic paint that can be scraped out of the mortar and into a small airtight containter.
The paint created in this manner should resemble the culture hustle paints you like (though opacity depends largely on the pigment used, CH uses cadmium red and yellow to ensure opacity, almost all other red and yellow pigments will be fairly transparent no matter how much pigment to binder you use)

Anyway, give it another shot buddy 👍🏼

[WhattoRepair]

Use some round bowl for mixing pigments and medium. Don't use square jar, you can't mix it well because pigments stays in corners. I make rough mixing in round bowl, then I pour all that in small bottle and mix it thoroughly on the vortex mixer. You can buy cheap vortex mixer online for 10-15 USD. I mix in proportion about 1 gram of pigment with 10 mililiters of medium, depends how thick your medium is. If paint is too thick you can add thinner (alcohol and water).

[guildofsayntlukemedievalar]

I suggest grinding the pigment wet with water, then grind it, then mix it with the medium, you will find it a lot easier to mix it thoroughly.

[imtired]

Or like pouring resin over pigments that dust bind…..if you love around the room will it be a color shift effect?

[maribelcuevas]

LMAO. I could swear your comedian I never thought making paint was so funny even thought it's also stressing. But you made my day.

[mormand]

That first color should be called "Jersey Shore Tan" The second is "Baby Shit Green" and the third is "crushed lipsick". The last one is the color I would imagine Enya's music would be.

[FelineFurKin]

Unicorn tears for the light blue to go with the disappointment. Orange rain, perhaps, for that one. Green jeans for the surprising blue. Burgundy gumdrops for the pinky red maybe.

[WaverleyWanderer]

The best acrylic paint you will never need!

[dulainey]

1: pudgy amber or pounce amber. 2: magic leaf. 3: magenta dusk or burgungenta. 4: cream blue agony, baby bitch blue or bollock ache blue. Just a few ideas :)

[artg]

I would definitely call the green paint Electric Pickle.

[LuisAguilar-xdhw]

Where can I get those colored pigments?

[Bayubadu]

For the first time, it wasn`t bad at all, but informative and funny haha. This orange looks like copper brown

[GlitzyWitch]

Unpredictable Orange makes a great colour name lol

[sherierodrigues]

Thank goodness, its another soggy weekend here in Queensland, not thank goodness about the soggy bit, but Anthony is here. Woo hoo..lol. I think I'm funny. Luv ya. Sherie Rodrigues 🙃

[RandumGurlyGurl]

Really appreciate this video. Just getting started and wonder how to mix and match. This is helpful to see your methods and mediums used. Thank you!

[justbeeyourself]

i've taken on the journey of trying to make my own acrylic paint (small amounts for craft purposes) and so far i've had pretty good success! i got a cheap, small pestle and mortar as well as pebeo studio acrylics bindex (acrylic binder, purple label) from amazon. i get my pigments from tkb trading. i mixed some binder and pigment into a medicine measuring cup (no more than probably 10-15 ml combined), mixed that up, then started putting it into the pestle and mortar and grinding the liquid and pigment together until smooth. i kept doing that until i had an okay amount, mixed it with some binder. repeat until you get the color and amount you want! i also got some small syringes and plastic squeeze bottles to store my paint in after making it (amazon as well).

[AbdulAziz-cjhg]

Hi have u tried to mix powder pigment with acrylic itself?