Re:DIY Soft Drinks
by user070223 on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:12AM
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Another fun use for gum arabic is making watercolor paints, you can do it with your kids sourcing the pigment from different soils. pour water and let the heavy big particle fall to the bottom and source the small ones from the top and mix some ingredients
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Pigment from soils?
Not sure what you are asking. The stone age way of making paint is to find some place where the ground has a weird colour, dig it up, clean it and you have a pigment.
Even to this day many of our paint pigments are mined this way. Red/yellow ochre, umber, sienna.
If what you are asking is the dirt in question geologically speaking a soil? Sometimes, sometimes not. It can be a sediment or a regolith too. But in the more general laymen sense callig any dirt from the ground a soil is not too mistaken.
Yeah I’ll probably stick with coca cola corporation
Okay, but user070223 is talking about watercolour paints as an alternative use of gum arabic.
Now i’m just recognising this might be a language issue: watercolour paints are a type of paint to paint with on paper using a brush dipped in water. If you ever seen kids paint with brushes and paper most likely they were using watercolour paint.
Ochre is from a type of clay
Re:DIY Soft Drinks
by mattmaroon on Monday April 13, 2026 @08:12AM
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Oh! I knew they sold it for art but not why.