Can someone please tell me where I can get powdered tempera paint? The paint that Joe Fugate uses in his scenery clinic to coloring dirt. I’m trying to find it here in Sweden, but I know so little about it so I really don’t know what I’m searching for.
An artist’s supply store is probably your best bet.
Most likely at a School Supply store. It used in our primary schools to teach kids how to make a mess on a piece of paper. That way the child can take it home and put the “art work” up on the parents refrigerators, attached with souvenir magnets.
From: The MadSci Network
Powdered paint formulas are really just paint formulas without the liquid ingredient, namely the water. Typical formulas contain the following solid ingredients:
“pigment” (to provide the color)
“clay” (thickens the paint when water is added)
“binder” (a polymer that forms a film when it dries, typically corn starch or dextrin)
“preservative” (powder that will destroy any bacteria or mold that isintroduced)
“filler” (extra solid stuff added to give the paint some volume and does not serve any particular purpose otherwise, such as calcium carbonate or another clay, etc.)
Here are a few links to powderd tempra paints.
Here is a link to Black, the other colors available are at the bottom of this page.
http://catalog.imaschoolsupply.com/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/1270/products_id/26594
http://www.misterart.com/store/view/001/group_id/1306/Crayola-Powder-Paint.htm
I hope these were helpful.
Jerry
Thanks for the info and the links. I think I got it [:D]
For referance, if anybody want’s it. *** Blick art supply GIVES away an art supply catalog that has everything art in it. 600 pages. dickblick.com. Lot’s of tempera paints. Lot’s of acrylics and brushes.
Thanks loathar, I have emailed them with some questions.
I just realized that tempera cakes must be the paint I used in school when I was a little boy. Tempera powder is the same paint, right? We used to call it vattenfärg = watercolor.
No, it is not the same thing, EL. Tempera is paint pigment round up with powdered egg yolk.
Ok, just an idea I got in my head [:D]
This must be what I need, right?
http://www.dickblick.com/zz000/04/
or this:
The latter one is what you are looking for: the Crayola product could be, but does not explicitly specify that it is tempera paint.
Jetrock :
It’s listed under Painting and Painting Accessories > Tempera on the site. So I can’t see why it should not be tempera.
Electrolove…As with anything there is more then one type. regular tempora and a washable tempora found at art and craft type stores
I bought the washable by mastake. But then I use the tempora for broken granite highlights, then wash over it with extreamly light artist acrylics, The washable type kept bleeding out. The regular tempora wont bleed out after it drys.
Good luck in your quest…John
Joe:
Maybe you can point me to a site on the net that are selling the powdered tempera paint that you use? So I don’t use the wrong thing…
Joe:
Thanks, mission completed [:D]
I have purchased multiple colors at Hobby Lobby here in the United States. Hobby Lobby is on line and I believe you can order it over the internet. Allen Keller demonstrates his use of Tempra paints on his Bluff City Southern Railroad for weathering rolling stock. After using colors that you want to use, black, gray, brown; he spreads the dry tempra with small paint burshes all over the car, including the bolsters of the wheel sets, he then mist the car with a fine spray of water. The Tempra paint will then set when it drys. I’ve done it and it works. Try Crayola on line as well.
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