Shocking Results -Trying Acrylic Paint To Color Sand!

[@ZippedUpKitz]

I would have never thought to use acrylic paint to color sand!!!!! I’m so glad that worked! I have some white sand like that there and would like to have some other colors… now I know I can color it with my acrylic paints!!!! Yay!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@StephanieDwyer-t7y]

The res in the natural sand is vivid and true red. They are all lovely. That worked well on all of them.😮

[@fsecofficial]

For the darker sand use white paint first to bring it to white base and then after that drys do the colors. Nice work.

[@gak2008]

Omg thank you! I bought blue sand from the pet store and it dark blue. I could use white gesso maybe? At first them go from there

[@mlfett6307]

Wow - it worked! If I were trying to colour sand, I think I would first reach for either alcohol ink or water based inks, just because I would be afraid of the bulk in acrylic paints. But hey! success! Thanks for experimenting - can't wait to see what you do with them!

[@dollybrown1993]

AAAAAHHHHH SO PRETTY!!🥰🥰 Looking forward to seeing your new project and using this sand to do resin work too 😳😳. It seems like you're always doing something that amazes me.... The more I watch your videos the more I learn.... Thank You so much. Because of you my crafting is so much better. Stay safe, you do you, and stay crafty 👍👍🛎️🔔🦋🦋

[@mamapillow8365]

Pretty shocking results, thanks for the experiment. I suspect you are a really good singer in real life, even though you were joking singing. Have a great day.

[@vezhopkins714]

I save my takeaway tubs to ;D also ice cream and yoghurt pots to mix resin in XD

[@rebeccamiller3248]

We used to do sand art when I was a kid. Back in 60's and 70's. My Mom used 2 methods. 1st method was liquid food coloring. Used instead of paint. She also used water to thin it out to help it get more color less food coloring. Then she would thin it out on a baking sheet and heat it in the oven. Lowest setting about 2 hrs. Take it out see if it dried then grind it in her hands to get any lumps out and color again to make it darker or add a second color to change it. Like if she wanted a pinkish purple she would start with red then bake it dry. Then add blue bake it dry. Repeat til she got color she wanted. She would also do it with paint same way. She tried water colors but did not like the paleness it never gave her the deep color she wanted. Ink was to flammable and took more to dye sand. Acrylic paint she added couple tea spoons of water to thin it. Then repeat same method as food coloring. She used the plaid tolle paints to color them. We had a lot of sand in our back yard. She would dig it up and sift it through screen then bake it in oven to get out any bugs or impurities. She bought sand too. But when out and on military income back in the day she would process her own. She used the sand in yarn or string art. Where she would trace out a scene or person. Then use the sand and glue to color in. She also did layers in jars for terrariums then add layer of wax to seal sand in place, then add a potting soil for plants or make some with plastic flowers. She also used gallon jars from pickles and some smaller jars by filled them with colored sand and make lamps and bottles she made vases or candle holders from them. My child hood lamps she did had two big ones she created butterflies in them by layers of sand and using sticks or chop sticks to help shape them and glue on inside wall of glass she out lined her designs. She made me 5 matching lamps. Two big ones for my nightstands. 3 small ones for my dresser and desk. She used a fabric swatch from my bedding she made to get design for sand shape in lamp. She put fabric swatch or a picture inside and used sharpie to draw on our side of jar. Then followed out line with glue inside. Sand she colored to match bedding decor the rest she used matching wall paint for background color. So lavender walls, with pink, blue yellow and white butterflies and flowers. Took her weeks to make cause she was raising 4 kids 3 girls 1 boy all different ages who wanted everything from clothes to snacks. Mom sewed and worked part-time out of the home. Eldest sibling born in 54, second 56 then me 64 and youngest in 71. Top it off mom had stroke at age 37 slowed her down a bit and still managed to do everything while partially paralyzed for several years until she got fully healed up. My parents made no excuse for why things were not done. Lol Dad had 3 mild heart attacks on job and waited til quitting time to go to VA. My kids d thinks I am hard core but nothing like my parents. Apologize for rambling and book but thinking how hard they both worked to give us everything made me appreciate them even more. Today's society could not deal with the stuff my parents lived through the depression and 3 wars. WW2, Korea and Vietnam my Dad was in all 3 and married to Mom the last 2.

[@MommeeMadre1]

Don't you love how the memories just come flooding back during the most surprising times!? You should print out your comment to share with your children, niece and nephews!

[@denisedudley3492]

Hi Steve, I have in fact colored sand with acrylic paint to put into resin. It worked wonderfully.

[@scootermom1791]

Hi! Just out of curiosity, do you think colored salt would work in resin in lieu of colored sand? I've been watching a few videos about resin crafts and was thinking about trying something like that. I haven't created anything with resin before, which is why I asked. 🙂

[@denisedudley3492]

@@scootermom1791 I can't see why salt wouldn't work, unless it would dissolve when it is mixed in the resin. Worth experimenting.

[@debrajol3585]

I use lets resin alcohol inks..takes just a couple drops. Or Liquitex acrylic inks. (Same with crushed glass.. no reason to buy every color). The pigment load is intense on these so it takes nearly nothing. Stir with a stick & it dries out in minutes. Great experiment with paints and the results are good 👍 Hope you’re having a nice start to 2023!! Thanks for sharing 🌹

[@judyeuller7602]

I like both because of the shading you could do with them. Great idea, Steve.

[@karans3307]

This is brilliant! It makes options endless and very affordable. Well done.

[@maria9293]

I have been thinking for several weeks now, to test and color my sand 😃 So thanks to you, I see that coloring the sand went very well 🤩👍🌷

[@dalemaclaren7576]

Awesome Steve. Looking forward to seeing what you use this for.

[@maddieadams75]

I’m impressed how well they turned. Colors are very nice❤

[@ShellsSpace_MyEndobattle]

Omg this is amazing. Alcohol ink works really well too as the alcohol evaporates leaving no moisture xx

[@christinaperson1168]

This is such a great experiment! Love the colors! Thank you Steve 😊!!!

[@LisaVornhagen]

That's pretty cool! I've never seen that done before. I can't wait to see what you do with them!

[@nanapaula1031]

The stuff you make is so amazing I love watching your videos it actually brings me out of this funk at mo Thank you

[@nisar8009]

Well that turned out amazingly well! I’m really surprised!

[@happymomma06]

Wow this was a great idea to see how it would turn out. I am so excited how it did turn out. Can’t wait to see what you make with them. That should be the next project using the colored sand.

[@Lourin911]

Love this... Definitely going to do this!!!!🎉

[@lindaweaver9267]

Looking forward to see what you do with the sand

[@MommeeMadre1]

Well I'm on a beach, and I have acrylic paint!! I was looking for ways to color and for a protect tomorrow! This will be WONDERFUL! THANK YOU!!!!

[@bellnorton1691]

Great idea, thank you for sharing.

[@mladywolf]

now you can add some ultra fine glitter to it as well and you get some magical looks with them.

[@tinanunya7343]

I like the two different shades of both colors.

[@LadyMae42]

I found some nice colored sand at the dollar store that works great! But I love the shades that the sand color sand shaded the paint you used! Can’t wait to see how you use it!

[@scootermom1791]

My dollar tree store also sells white sand. But, it's hit and miss depending on how many bags they have of it. A cost effective substitute for white sand is table salt. This is depending on the project you need it for, but it totally works! I've even blended table salt with powdered tempura paint for projects with kids.

[@lindaeastment4542]

Hi Steve, You are definitely my kind of crafty craft Crafter Experiments most definitely save you money 👍🙂 my personal Favourites were the White coloured sand Thanks so much Mate for sharing 👍❤️✨ Lin

[@SheriPhaffArtPaintBrushed]

This is great! And custom colours and likely less expensive than buying precoloured sand from a craft store! I love the intense colours made with the sandy coloured sand LOL thanks for sharing!

[@sharkopec9966]

Great idea. You’re a genius ❤❤❤

[@ianburden1259]

Interesting Experiment 🤔👍

[@suesmith9202]

What a good idea Steve

[@Nirrrina]

There's sure a lot of different tips & ideas for coloring sand here in the comments. What a great idea to do.

[@scootermom1791]

Depending on what you are using the colored sand for, you can use dry tempura paint powder to achieve the same effect. You only have to mix a little bit of the tempura powder with the sand to get a lot of color! And, here's another tip: you can mix tempura paint with table salt in lieu of white sand. Salt costs a lot less than white sand. For example, 5 lbs of the cheapest pure white sand I could find was $8.62 at Walmart. 4 lbs table salt (it didn't come in 5 lbs), was $1.98 at both Sam's club and Walmart. Sometimes you can get a pound of white sand at Dollar Tree, but that's hit or miss and still costs more than a pound of table salt. The table salt idea with tempura paint was something I came up with years ago when wanting to create the layered sand "sculptures" inside the plastic, shaped bottles with kids. It worked beautifully and saved a lot of money. But, again, it depends on what you plan to use the colored sand for.

[@carlycharlesworth1497]

I've coloured sand with chalk and a little bit of mica to bring the vibrancy up, that worked pretty well but I wasn't making so much coloured sand as you have. If I had known you could get dry sand in bright colours using acrylic paint, I would have used that ages ago! I can't wait to see what you're going to make with all that sand. My guess would be an inlay on a table top, or on a tray! Whatever it will be, I'm betting it's gonna be amazing and beautiful! God bless you Steve and all those you love. Have a great week!

[@scootermom1791]

You can also add powdered tempura paint to sand to achieve the same effect. It might be more cost effective than using acrylics depending on how much colored sand you'd need.

[@67sixpack]

Steve you should seriously look into those glasses for colorblind people I hear they are amazing!!!

[@Microplancakes]

A few years back I wanted to make "sand" for a resin project. I used salt and acrylic paint to make a very realistic looking sand!! It turned out very cool!!

[@scootermom1791]

Table salt is way more cost effective than sand isn't it? I thought I was the only one who'd thought of that. Lol Several years ago when my daughter was younger, we wanted to do create a layered sand project. I came up with the idea of mixing salt with powdered tempura paint in lieu of purchasing expensive, already colored sand online. It worked perfectly!

[@technicoloryaya549]

I use Wilton's food dye. Comes out great.

[@marijoswick]

I did a 'painting' in a series of test tubes, and coloured the sand by stirring it with chalk pastels,which worked very well too.

[@sylviawatts4027]

I like the red in the brown sand

[@giovannacasadio9600]

I bought coloured sand years ago it was cheaper then, and still have them, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

[@ellenstanek7377]

What if you mixed mica powder into the sand to color it or a powdered paint

[@rennnnn914]

I'd guess that they wouldn't actually colour the sand, they would stay separate powders mixed in with the sand.

[@ellenstanek7377]

@Rowan None we mixed sad with powder paint as a kids for sand art and it worked well as I recall

[@barbwood1125]

Wonderful idea! Thank you! Have you done any thing yet with your colored sand in resin? If so did it work out alright?

[@angharadlocke]

Would mica powder work to color thr sand? X

[@natasja1977]

The red from the darker sand looks more true to red then the white colored one. I used liquid dye to color sand and that works well too. I'm going to try this way to

[@jadeswrapsandbraids]

The blue is more teal in the brown sand. You can also use table salt in place of sand. And color it with food coloring

[@Auriasis]

I bought purple sand at the dollar store. It was maybe a couple of lbs. But they didn't have any other colors at the time.

[@villagetamilanchennal8914]

How to sand white colour mix

[@dcruicks1]

What about food coloring or Rit dye for clothes.

[@mignonbaricevic36]

I did this in high school. I used yellow paint to make the sand look more vibrant and added PVA glue to my yellow sand so it would stick to my canvas. I made a beach scene

[@jadeswrapsandbraids]

Food coloring works good too.. at least in the white sand. The brown sand, it'd be different

[@mandicoleman7433]

Do good coloring isn't a good thing to use them is it?

[@kasandrabromley8257]

I love the sand colored sand colors lol

[@deebeckham4754]

You can grate some chalk or pastels to color sand.

[@paulinebranter8773]

I use normal poster paint and then dry in the oven

[@born1224]

Try some sidewalk chalk or food coloring

[@critter9579]

Wonder how alcohol ink or any ink really or food coloring. The possibility are endless 🙂

[@cynthiajluciene9677]

Have you ever used alcohol ink to color your sand?

[@Kirjava88]

Sand is pale brown, sometimes almost yellow-orange.

[@neverwares]

Forbidden snacks! 😂

[@sylviawatts4027]

I think the white sand makes nicer colours

[@pelecyphora1]

Bi-carb paint and glue

[@alexanderzamudio-calva3196]

Balls

[@TheChamberRoomExperience]

You buy sand??? WHY? I just go to the beach. It's FREE...Very interesting....

[@Xiiki]

Take a shot every time he says sand. Okay maybe don’t.