How to Make Homemade Milk Paint

Experiment with making traditional milk paint at home using skim milk powder, hydrated lime and mineral pigments!

The ratio for making dry mix milk paint is:

4 parts skim milk powder : 1 part lime : 1 part pigment

The recipe I use in this video is scaled down for testing in batches.

For each small cup of paint I use:

2 tsp skim milk powder
1/2 tsp lime
1/2 to 3/4 tsp mineral pigment
4 tsp of water, more or less to the desired thickness

I find skim milk powder at my local bulk food store.

My mineral pigment comes from the Sculpture Supply store in Toronto: sculpturesupply.com/list.p...

But you can also buy them online:

earthpigments.com/

Powdered hydrated lime can be found in a number of places, marketed for a number of uses.

You can use whitewash lime:

homehardware.ca/en/rec/ind...

Or mason's lime:

skycon.ca/skyvac/product_info....

Or garden lime:

amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...

These are all essentially the same thing!

Feel free to ask any questions here. I'd love to see the colours you come up with. :)