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Re: chalk and buttermilk
From: The Austin's (whest177_at_TeacherArtExchange)
I haven't ever heard of using buttermilk, but I have done this method with liquid fabric starch as well as warm sugar water. The chalk does work more like a paint, and when it dries it is more permanent than regular chalk pastels. It is kind of messy, but I didn't find it nearly as bad as when using the colored chalk alone (all that dust!). I'd be interested to hear if the damp sponge trick works. :-)
Does anyone have any experience with a painting technique using colored chalk dipped in buttermilk? Supposedly the buttermilk acts like a fixative and the chalk will spread on like paint after dipping. I'm thinking about possibly doing this with second grade with them drawing the image in white chalk on black paper and then painting with the colored chalk dipped in buttermilk. I'm wondering if the chalk will smear if they wipe off the surface of the paper with a damp sponge after it's dry in order to get off the white chalk lines? I'm going to experiment but am curious as to whether anyone has done this. Why couldn't you use regular milk instead of buttermilk? What kind of chalk do you use; pastels or colored drawing chalk?
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