paint making

Step-by-step guide to grind pigments with a glass muller or Natural Pigments’ Basic Paint-Making Kit—achieve vibrant, stable paints in oil, watercolor, gouache, and egg tempera.

Discover how aqueous pigment dispersions simplify paint making, offer safety, and enhance your creative process with consistent and versatile results.

Learn how to make your own gouache paint at home with this easy step-by-step guide. Mix pigments, gum arabic, and water to create your own opaque watercolors. Perfect for artists looking to experiment with new colors and consistency.

Tutorial for dispersing pigment in water with simple grinding tools—then use it for watercolor, tempera, casein, distemper, fresco, pastels, and sticks at home.

Learn oil paint basics: pigment plus drying oil. Make small batches with pigment, linseed oil, a spatula, and a flat surface—then refine to a smooth paste—fast.

Hand mulling breaks pigment agglomerates for even dispersion and higher saturation, and lets you tune texture, opacity, and character in water-based paint, too.

Each day we receive many questions about how to make paint. One question that is often asked is regarding a "formula" for making paint.

A personal note on watercolor’s purity—pigment on paper with minimal binder—and why expanding a palette with select pigments can be so rewarding.

A first-hand paint-making account: using a kit, safety gear, and silicon carbide to frost glass, then grinding pigments into oil to build smooth, usable paint.

A discussion about making vermilion oil paint among artists.