Marbling Paper Ink

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Marbling paper ink.

I used a heavy watercolor stock for my paper but i think you could get away with a nice cardstock. Fill your tray with about 1 2 1 inch of water. The technique is quite easy. Beautiful hand marbleized paper is often used in bookmaking or other paper crafts.

Today you can make your own rich designs by marbleizing paper to use as stationery and cards. The marbling pigments sold by most arts and crafts suppliers can be quite expensive and are not always readily available. It may seem straightforward until you consider buoyancy and other variables in the mix. Oil based inks in a tank of water being prepared for marbling.

I filled a shallow bowl with water and dropped in 3 4 drops of 3 4 different colors of ranger alcohol inks. This package contains six marbling colour inks in 12ml tubes orange red yellow green blue and black. Marbleizing which involves using absorbent papers to pick up ink from a water bath dates to the twelfth century when it was practiced in japan and possibly china. Various additives or surfactant chemicals are used to help float the colors.

Method 1 water marbling all you need for this technique are some alcohol inks paper a tray and water. As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper. Marbling is achieved by floating pigment on water and laying paper over the water to transfer the pigment design onto the paper. They are pigment inks made of high grade cosmetic pigment with p v a.

You could also use copic marker refill. 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. My experience was certainly a comedy of trials and errors but after a bit of experimenting i hit my marbling sweet spot. Remove and pat dry with a paper towel.

Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. In the beginning of my video i show many examples of alcohol ink marbling. A shallow tray is filled with water and various kinds of ink or paint colors are carefully applied to the surface with an ink brush.