Marbling Instructions Paper

This is one of our all time favorite art activities.

Marbling instructions paper.

Experiment with different types of paper and see which is best for you. Remove the paper as soon as it s flat starting at the corner. In the alum solution and then line dry. Leave these pages for 20 30 min.

As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper. 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. Swirl the colours with your stir stick blow on the surface with a straw or use a comb to create marble patterns. Marbling technique videos by lp lpres from album marbling 1.

Marbling begins first with the dissolving seaweed powder in water seaweed is a white material derived from an ocean plant. Each design is as unique as a fingerprint. Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. Dissolve 4 tablespoons 60 grams of alum in one quart 95 l of warm water.

Carefully lay sheet of paper on the water but don t submerge it. Lay the sheet out to dry. The best easiest and cheapest diy marbled paper is done with shaving cream marbling. A tray with the approximate dimensions of the paper to be marbled is filled with this liquid to depth of about six centimeters.

Skimming and paint prep 2. The technique involves floating paints on the surface of a gel like medium known as the marbling size and then transferring this floating design onto paper or fabric. Pulling a printed sheet 4. Do not touch the paper until it is dry typically within 2 hours depending on humidity levels decide whether to keep or discard your solution it can be used several times.

Cleaning the tray 5. Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. Overmarbling waves 7. Hang paper to dry marbleized side up.

A type of gum seaweed gives the water a degree of viscosity.