Name:________________________

Grinding pigments

You need:

  • 3 Small jars with lids
  • White paint
  • Water
  • 2 Funnels
  • Glass beads
  • Weighing scales
  • Teaspoon
  • Dowelling rod
  • Timer
  • 4 Paintbrushes.

What to do:

  1. Weigh 70g of glass beads into each jar.

  2. Pour the beads through a funnel into each jar.

  3. Pour just enough white paint into the bottles to cover the beads.

  4. Add a level teaspoon of the pigment through a clean funnel in each jar.

  5. Using a dowelling rod, mix the pigment into the white paint for about 30 seconds.

  6. Dip a dry paint brush into one of the jars and smoothly and evenly paint a strip on your paper.

  7. Put the lid on the bottle and shake it as hard as you can (like a cocktail shaker!) for 10 seconds. Let everyone in your group do this.

  8. Dip a clean dry brush again and smoothly and evenly paint a strip next to the first one on your paper, so the strips are just touching (without them mixing together).

  9. Repeat the shaking and painting for each jar - but everyone in the group counts to 15 seconds when shaking the second jar and to 20 seconds when shaking the third jar.
          You should now have four strips of paint on your paper.