Paint Making From Pigment And Binder

Any paint is made from pigment, binder and sometimes fillers too. The pigment is the pure colour substance and comes from various materials like oxides of metal, clay or plants.
They all behave differently when mixed into binders.
When we mix oil paints, we grind pigment and linseed oil together.
For acrylic paint we use acrylic emulsion (sometimes called glaze) and stir pigments in.
One can use eggs, animal fat, casein, wall paper glue and many other substances as binders, depending on the use of the painting medium. To make it a cheaper paint, one can mix in fillers like marble dust or chalk. But these will always steal away the brightness and intensity of the paint when applied.
For many centuries of paint making the binder for making water colour paint has been gum acacia (also known as gummi arabic). The old masters who were painting long before art material production factories were invented used the resin from acacia trees which dissolves in water.
So, pigment plus dissolved gum acacia makes the purest water colour paint.
We being based in Cape Town / South Africa are lucky to have the paint factory DALA selling pigments already bound with water in bottles and paper glue in 750ml bottles. We have found that we can stir these two together to make water colour paint very quickly. Children and adults at the Butterfly Art Project have tested the quality of this paint many thousands of times and find it very good.
Let us show you how to mix a balanced red, yellow and blue for using with beginners or in early childhood. Balanced primary colours allow for easier blending into secondary colours. Sometimes we call these balanced colours child blue, child red and child yellow.
The amounts we are mixing are for minimum 1000 A4 pages.
Take a bottle of 750 ml ultramarine blue and stir a cup of prussian blue into it.
Take a bottle of 750 ml lemon yellow and stir a cup of golden yellow in.
Fortunately, the only red DALA offers is already balanced.
There is a basic rule: To mix paint you take one part pigment and one part binder.
Once you mixed the pigments you add the same amount of paper glue and stir.
Before offering the paint to children add about 20 times the amount of water to the paint quantity.
We at the Butterfly Art Project wish you many happy painting sessions with your children.
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[@bdmvy]

Thanks for the the video. BTW I am the former lecturer in Photography at Michaelis. Can you give me an idea what the "paper glue" is? I am trying to come up with a mix of Titanium pigment (TIO2) in a suspension that will be water washable. The project requires spreading a thin, even layer of TI over a clean, white ceramic tile, and then using a laser which will turn the TIO2 deep black and then fuse it to the tile making it permanent. The idea to to be able to wash away the "unexposed" areas with soap and water. The results are quite stunning. I have been using a white washable glue sold her in the US as "School Glue". I wonder if paper glue is similar?
BTW I was in The Mother City a few weeks ago. I popped down for a weekend to get my biltong fix!

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Are varnishes binders?

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How about Dtg ink