Post #566242 by Tiki-Atari on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 2:21 PM

"Puff Paint" is a kind of plasticized craft paint frequently packaged in plastic bottles with pen-like applicator tips. When the paint dries it swells slightly, leaving raised lines. The stuff was tremendously popular during the 80's here, and frequently came mixed with glitter. The applicator bottle could be used like a pen (I definitely think you were correct when you said the painting looks drawn as much as painted). On my version of the painting some of the strokes were with the pen tip and some with a brush, leaving different levels of dimensionality depending on the line in question. The frame on mine is fake plastic.
Here is a picture of a bottle of puffpaint, just for fun. (I swear my sister had a hundred bottle set of this stuff in all colours).

I'm looking forward to hanging this alongside a printout of the MaiKai postcard used for reference...thanks for the ID!