Andrea showed me how to make oil paint last week, using some of the pigment we bought in Paris. First, she spooned out a big pile of pigment onto a glass sheet and then spooned in some linseed oil.
Then she used that glass thing (Andrea says it's called a "muller") to mix it all together into a gooey paste. Then we had to get a little knife to scrape it off and into a tube. Andrea took a picture before we started scraping it off, but something went wrong with the camera since and she had to get the "memory card" (whatever that is) fixed. She said they didn't quite rescue all the pictures.
Then, once we'd filled the tube up with paint, she squeezed the end together and folded it over a couple of times so the paint wouldn't come out of the end. Then we put a label on the tube and wrote down the name of the colour, and smeared a bit of the paint on it!This was really fun!! Hope we get to do this again!
2 comments:
Beanie Mouse -
How in the world do you fill a paint tube? I am curious and hope Andrea didn't get any red pigment in your mousey fur. Cool post and many thanks for sharing. Make me want to play with pigments and linseed right now.
~Linda
Andrea did it very carefully - the tubes she had had the lid on one end and the other end was open. She used a little knife (she says a palette knife would work)to scrape bits of the paint up and then dolloped it in the open end. She had to tap the tube on the palm of her hand occasionally to get the paint to go down. It looked very tricky!! And she didn't get any paint on me at all!!
Love
Beanie
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