can i make paint using chalk?how?

Answer 1

Nope .Chalks have a lot of calcium carbonate and when you mix this with linseed oil it will become transparent and the color of your chalk paint will be rather grayer.If you really want to know you could try it , but don't expect much of it .As an experiment you could try covering a small canvas with a prepared painting medium and them try drawing into it with charcoal and chalks but I wouldn't do it with expensive one they will absorb the medium and get hard at the end.

Answer 2

In order to make any kind of 'paint' you're going to need pigment and a medium. How well chalk works as a pigment though I'm not sure, so if you want to make something that stands the test of time I recommend getting some professional artist paints, if you want to do this for fun though then here are my recipes.

Watercolor mediums use gum arabic
Oil paints use linseed oil and a little turpentine.
Tempera traditionally uses egg yolk

There ARE actually some artists who soak their chalk and charcoal in linseed oil and get oil sticks, so I think that perhaps oil paints might be your best bet. If you want to make paint though be sure to grind your chalk into a fine powder first.

Answer 3

You really can't do that properly. Chalk isn't a medium that is conducive to linseed oil, or saflower oil or any other oil for that matter.
In order to gain a viable medium for your canvas you have to use a time proven hue and grind your pigments in a mortar and pestle to a very fine powder, then grind it with the oil. This is hard work but you can do it.

Answer 4

If you want to make your paint find the Purest Pigments you can find... Typically "chalk" has a small amount of pigment in it.

Chalk, pumice and other inert ingredients are used as fillers in cheap paints... and while you may use those ingredients to get a particular surface in general you don't want those in your paint.

Answer 5

You could try blending chalk powder with linseed oil. It's not going to dry unless you apply a thin coat and give it plenty of time and air. Be careful. Rags soaked in linseed oil can spontaneously combust.

Answer 6

No, but you can make wet chalk using chalk. You can make a mess as well.....I suppose you could be creative and try it however....!

Answer 7

Do you want the colors of chalk in a paint form? The best choice would be poster colors or the tempra paints that most of us know from Halloween painting on windows.
Color chart
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Like these
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http://www.bindersart.com/paint-tempra-sargent-tempera-paint.aspx
from MSDS tempera
ARTISTA II TEMPERA- 54-3115,
54-3115F (STANDARD & FLUORESCENT), 54-3128, 54-3132,54-3164; BLACK, BLUE,
BROWN, GOLD (CRAYOLA), GREEN, MAGENTA, ORANGE, PEACH, RED, SILVER (CRAYOLA),
TURQUOISE BLUE, VIOLET, WHITE, YELLOW, FLUORESCENT BLUE, FLUORESCENT GREEN,
FLUORESCENT PINK, FLUORESCENT RED, FLUORESCENT ORANGE-YELLOW, FLUORESCENT
YELLOW, FLUORESCENT MAGENTA, FLUORESCENT ORANGE, FLUORESCENT ORANGE-RED,
FLUORESCENT CHARTREUSE