Making Powder Paint

In our first attempt to make the powder paint to use for filming we made it ourselves using cornflour and food colouring. This had its benefits:

• Cheaper than buying actual powder paint 
• More accessible for us as students without a real budget
• Easy to make
• We could choose how much we made/used

A big issue with this way of doing it was that we were not able to get a vivid enough colour as the colour would dull down any food colouring we used. For instance we used a red food dye but the final result of the dried powder was a pink despite how much food colouring we had added.


The other issue with this is that we made it a while before were able to shoot the powder paint due to our volunteers having commitments and needing them all on the same day. The powder did not keep very well and therefore had to be thrown away before we could us it.

We ended up using actual powdered paint bought from an art shop in Kingston although this was more expensive, it did end up looking a lot better as the colours were more vibrant and the powder was finer therefore was easier to throw.