How Is Paint Made?
asic paint has two ingredients: a pigment, or colored powder, and a sticky liquid to hold it together (called a binder). Early artists made pigments by grinding up rocks or dried plants into a powder. They blended the powders with spit, oil, eggs, glue, water, or old milk. Mixing good paint colors took practice and skill. The great Leonardo da Vinci spent so much time preparing his paints, his customers often worried that he’d never get around to painting. In the late 1700s, professionals called colormen took over the job of making
