#making paint

In painting we were tasked with making paint with the materials/ingredients we had around us .

• List of ingredients I used •

Oil

Expired eyeshadow

Expired cream eyeshadows

Paprika

Chilli powder

Honey

Cinnamon

Water

Wood glue

Red food colouring

Black food colouring

I found that even tough I used the same ingredients for some of the paints that the result didn’t always come out exactly thesame depending on the colour of the ingredient .

This happened with the food colouring specifically. The red came out really nice and acrylic like but the black was not as opaque and looked more like a watercolour .

I tried mixing honey with some of the spices but the result was quite sticky and patchy when painting . This didn’t work out well and was my least favourite

The spices worked well with water and wood glue , I really liked the textures created .

I mixed eyeshadow with glue and practically this worked but I lost a lot of the original pigment .

For the Painting Elective we were asked to make our own paints. I chose to use food stuff to do so. I used the following:

*cinnamon

*beetroot

*mustard

*green curry sauce

*blueberries

*honey

*water

I blended the blueberries, as well as the beetroot, while I added honey and water to all of mixtures. The beetroot concoction and the mustard mix were the most vibrant colours, followed by the rustic cinnamon. The green curry sauce mix was very weak and did not work well. Although, overall I was happy with the textures that resulted from the range of food-stuff.

I used a reference photo that I took yesterday from my visit to my former secondary sports grounds (which I often run on with my spikes). I created two abstract landscape pieces from the food stuff, once dry I scanned them into my computer to use as a backdrop for my animation elective.