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Directions Make the base of the paint by mixing together the baking soda, cornstarch, white vinegar and corn syrup in a bowl. Carefully pour the white base mixture into the tea-light holders, filling them about three quarters of the way full. Make the watercolors by adding drops of food coloring. Now paint away!

To use, just dilute either paint from the tube to liquid by adding water, or buy already-liquid pigments like Dr. Martins. Paint in the usual manner, using mounted watercolor paper that is as wet or dry as your technique needs. Hereʼs why acrylic is better in certain ways.

Prepare Watercolor Medium: 6 Tbsp hot water. 3 Tbsp gum arabic powder. 2 Tbsp honey. Pour gum arabic powder into the hot water and mix until fully dissolved. Prepare Watercolor Paint. Mix 1 part watercolor medium with 1 part pigment (adjust as necessary). Storing.

Ox gall is gall, usually obtained from cows, that is an ingredient in bile soap and mixed with alcohol and used as the wetting agent in paper marbling, engraving, lithography, and watercolor painting. It is a greenish-brown liquid mixture containing cholesterol, lecithin, taurocholic acid, and glycocholic acid.

To remedy my watercolor issues, I started using my acrylics as a watercolor instead. When diluted with water into a transparent wash, acrylic looks exactly like traditional watercolor paints.

Watercolor paint consists of four principal ingredients: a pigment; gum arabic as a binder to hold the pigment in suspension; additives like glycerin, ox gall, honey, and preservatives to alter the viscosity, hiding, durability or color of the pigment and vehicle mixture; and, evaporating water, as a solvent used to