Marbled Paper Water

Back then a tree resin based surfactant was dropped into a pan of water.

Marbled paper water.

Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. 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.

Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. How to water marble with acrylic paint. Through several centuries people have applied marbled materials to a variety of. Add your watercolor paper down on the water rough end we cut our paper to a size that fit our pan fully submerging to capture all the paint onto the paper.

A large jug of cold water. Either way make sure your craft space is well ventilated. The uses of paper marbling. The oldest known form of paper marbling called suminagashi which translates to floating ink originated in japan around the 10th century though historians believe that it could be even older than that.

Then use a toothpick or skewer to drag the paint in different directions creating a marbling effect. But today we re in luck. First pour water into the tray until it s 1 2cm deep. Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design.

Some marbling paint or marbling ink in different colours you can buy this in craft shops pieces of paper or card small enough to fit in the tray a pencil. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. Nail polish is a little more permanent which makes this a great technique for marbling more than just paper but it may also make this method less ideal for kids. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors.

Nail polish marbling dries quickly and there s less mess because you don t have to scrape away the shaving cream. It may seem straightforward until you consider buoyancy and other variables in the mix. Marbling is achieved by floating pigment on water and laying paper over the water to transfer the pigment design onto the paper. Heather creative director at may designs is here to demystify paper marbling and walk us through the entire process.

The team at may designs. My experience was certainly a comedy of trials and errors but after a bit of experimenting i hit my marbling sweet spot. Here s what to do.