Creating your own paint is a great way to cut costs while exerting greater control over the shades and effects you desire. Dry pigment powder can be combined with binders to create a variety of ...

To understand this variability, researchers reporting in ACS’ Langmuir literally watched paint dry. They found that pigment concentration and temperature impacted how the liquid gelled and evaporated, ...

Oil-based paint has a high concentration of pigment and will typically take longer to dry than either acrylic or latex paint. The long drying time and the density of the pigment leads to a darker ...

As paint drops dry, they can look like a “fried egg” (left image, scale bar is one millimeter) or develop a more even pigment distribution (right image). view more Credit: Adapted from ...

As paint drops dry, they can look like a “fried egg” (left) or develop a more even pigment distribution (right). Credit: S.M.M. Ramos et al., Langmuir 2023/ACS ...