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Is there any way to make fake paint, the only way i can think is food colouring and water but can't see it having the same viscosity and will likely be clearer thant paint.

It's for a shot giving the illusion of paint going everywhere, but i dont want the cleanup operation of normal paint :thinking:

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We did it just a few days ago.
Milk 2:1 with yoghurt, plus a lot more food colouring mixed in than you'd think. And then bring the 'paint' to the required colour PP
 
Milk + Yoghurt sounds good for density, but possibly worse to clean up. Milk if not cleaned up properly it will smell very bad later...
 
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True. That's why we did it in Michael Sewell's studio :)
 
Is there anywhere i could get the colouring in bulk? The only ones i know are the tiny bottles in supermarkets.
 
What ever you do it's going to be messy, so wait for the summer and go outdoors. You can get all sizes of poster paint powder, which is relatively easy to clean up...:D

This has just been posted on the Alexandra Heinrichs tutorial pages - unfortunately all in German.

Paul
 
love the idea! the video is great, now to find some willing models! and a studio who dont mind mess.
 
connersz said:
Is there anywhere i could get the colouring in bulk? The only ones i know are the tiny bottles in supermarkets.
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Cooking shops, not Tesco or ASDA cooking stuff, but proper shop selling kitchen gadgets (Steam Trader Cooking shop, http://www.steamer.co.uk or LakeLand http://www.lakeland.co.uk/). They have rather larger sized food colouring bottles, think originally they are for cupcake icing colouring. That stuff is concentrated and should work well.

1oz was ~£2.99, after cooking I still have 9/10 (if not more) left.
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3e30b2d9-475a-bac0-5d5c3db846dfd354
 
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