Experiment with the different ingredients to evaluate the different finishes. Apply the milk paint with a good quality real bristle brush.
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How to make natural milk paint.
Ingredients which you can use:
- Skimmed milk
- Powdered milk
- Curdled milk
- Cottage cheese
- Natural earth pigments
- Commercial powdered pigments(From stockists such as Daniel Smith)
- Bought food coloring
- Natural vegetable and plant colors(e.g.beetroot)
- Salt
- Fine white chalk
- Cornflour
- Water
- Boiled linseed oil
- Hydrated lime. Milk paint can be made without hydrated lime but it is not as good and it goes off very quick.
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Making Paint with Skimmed Milk.
- Quantities depends on what you are going to paint. 2 pints of skimmed milk will be enough for a small ceiling. 8 pints will do the walls of a small bedroom.
- Add one tablespoon of hydrated lime for each pint of skimmed milk.
- Use a small amount of the skimmed milk to the quantity of hydrated lime you need to use. Don't use too much milk; it is better to start with a tiny amount and add more as is required.
The object is to create a nice smooth cream of the hydrated lime. If you put in too much skimmed milk straight away it will cause the mixture to be lumpy.
- When you have a nice smooth cream slowly stir in the remainder of the skimmed milk.
- You can now add the coloring pigment to your own taste.
- If you don't add color it will dry out white.
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