Marble Paper Art

We ve marbled all kinds of surfaces.

Marble paper art.

Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. All the supplies you need to do your own marbling. Click on titles below for more information. We ve marbled paper with all kinds of paints from watercolors tempera acrylics and even food coloring.

Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design. Finally i took a cue from my marbled drawer pulls and decided to frame some homemade marbled paper art. One good video about the marbling art on water. Suddenly my cheap art project was looking a lot more expensive.

Today i ll show you how to make marbled paper with shaving cream and liquid watercolours. The soap will soak into the paper and punch out the marbleizing effect. Just grab an absorbent paper and then marbleize it using different oil paints paint thinners and methylcellulose and after you paper marble painting is ready just frame it up for a graceful look and design. The process of dipping the paper will swirl the colors.

The process is fascinating and really easy. If you d like to learn how to marble paper read on. See a selection of my marbled paper patterns on youtube. As a variation you place a drop of dish soap in each of the food coloring drops.

Unfortunately most of the instructions i found online called for expensive dyes or paints something called alum and other specialized tools. The patterns are the result of color floated on either plain water or a viscous solution known as size and then carefully transferred to an absorbent surface such as paper or fabric. Check out my new video made on valentine s day. Marbling supplies and information.

You simply press a piece of paper into shaving cream swirled with liquid watercolours and the colours and patterns are transferred to the paper making it look marbleized. The ancient art of paper and fabric marbling by galen berry. Marbling is one of our favorite art activities and we ve done it many ways and many times over the years. Add to favorites dark blue with gold 5 sheets text weight handmade fair trade marble paper.

To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. If yes then you can easily do also by hanging some marble art paintings on your visually attractive interior walls. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. Through several centuries people have applied marbled materials to a variety of.

White marble fine art digital background paper 12 x 12 printable free commercial use create the cut createthecut. If your paper is warped after drying you may place it between two sheets of paper and iron it to flatten it out again.