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What is ground chalk and where would you purchase it? I have been to paint stores, art shops and places like Home Depot and noone knows what it is.
Julie
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Hi Julie
Ground chalk is calcium carbonate. It comes in all sorts of forms and qualities. I got a large quantity but postal costs are horrendous.
Try doing an internet search; it might provide you with some links. For a small amount to experiment with, you could even grind up some blackboard chalk.
Decorator's merchants who sell 'traditional' materials used to sell it as 'whiting' which made a sort of powdery wall paint.
David
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Most clerks in most craft/art supply shops aren't the most knowledgable of people. If you don't use the term they know, they tell you they don't have it.
Ground chalk = whiting = calcium carbonate. Throw all the names at them, and they may recognize one of them: "Do you have ........ or ....... or ............?"
This stuff should be as cheap as dirt. I paid $3 for 5 lbs. Retail.
Don't let them talk you into the whiting for fine art paint, which is about $9 for an ounce or so.
A potter's supply should have it where you can buy it by the pound. Try Crizmac Art Supply or Marjon Ceramic Shop, both in Tucson.
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