A spoonful of milk paint...

... is all you need to start painting !

When you visit our store, you will be able to see all the cool projects we have painted with either Miss Mustard Seed Milk paint or van Gogh fossil paint.

To give you more information that will help you decide which paint will work best for you, we will make 2 blogs about these great paints.

Let's talk Milk paint !
            Miss Mustard Seed Milk paint !

Milk paint comes in a powdered form.

Yes, you can not paint with just the powder alone.  So we have to mix it with water.  By doing this, you can turn the milk paint in either a stain or a thicker paint.  Just add more or less water

To mix the milk paint, you can use a whisk.

Now that your mixture is ready, you have to decide if you want the paint to"naturally chip" or that you determine where you want the paint to chip.  (to give a distressed look)
Definition of "to distress" : to sand away paint to give your project a more aged and antique look
On all the projects we have done, I have always added the bonding agent because I want to decide where the distressing needs to happen.  When you do not use the bonding agent, the paint will chip in areas that maybe you did not want it to.  
That is why i call it "The adventurous paint".   
However you decide, it depends on the project and the look you want to create.

You can get a "distressed look" by using 1 coat of the same paint or with 2 different colors.

On this board, I used 1 color with bonding agent

On this board, I used 2 different colors.  

The result in distressing is a different look.  Once you have the feeling for distressing you can distress as much as you want to distress.  (i should stop saying distress because you may end up stressed and then you will have to destress)

When you are finished, you can decide what finishing coat you want to apply.

We carry all the Miss Mustard Seed products in our store and when you have any questions, we most certainly will do our best to help you out.

Hopefully this blog gave you enough basic information to get you started and you will enjoy this milk paint as much as I do.

The season of garage sales and auctions is upon us, so many potential projects are just waiting for you. !

Just to close off, a picture of our latest project done with milk paint.

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