Marbling Instructions Paper

Remove and pat dry with a paper towel.

Marbling instructions paper.

Purchase one of a kind hand marbled paper here. Cleaning the tray 5. Fill a marbling tray with the alum solu tion and submerge each piece of paper one at a time. Hang paper to dry marbleized side up.

Dissolve 4 tablespoons 60 grams of alum in one quart 95 l of warm water. Swirl the colours with your stir stick blow on the surface with a straw or use a comb to create marble patterns. Pulling a printed sheet 4. Overmarbling waves 7.

Each design is as unique as a fingerprint. Experiment with different types of paper and see which is best for you. 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. 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.

A type of gum seaweed gives the water a degree of viscosity. Skimming and paint prep 2. Leave these pages for 20 30 min. Marbling begins first with the dissolving seaweed powder in water seaweed is a white material derived from an ocean plant.

This is one of our all time favorite art activities. As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper. Use this traditional technique to make your own patterned fabric one of a kind wrapping paper greeting cards fine art and more. In the alum solution and then line dry.

Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. Remove the paper as soon as it s flat starting at the corner. Carefully lay sheet of paper on the water but don t submerge it. Marbling technique videos by lp lpres from album marbling 1.

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.