Marble Paper Art

Today i ll show you how to make marbled paper with shaving cream and liquid watercolours.

Marble paper art.

The ancient art of paper and fabric marbling by galen berry. Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone. The soap will soak into the paper and punch out the marbleizing effect. We ve marbled paper with all kinds of paints from watercolors tempera acrylics and even food coloring.

The process of dipping the paper will swirl the colors. And we ve tried every technique from suminagashi to shaving cream marbling. If yes then you can easily do also by hanging some marble art paintings on your visually attractive interior walls. See a selection of my marbled paper patterns on youtube.

One good video about the marbling art on water. Marbling supplies and information. Suddenly my cheap art project was looking a lot more expensive. Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design.

We ve marbled all kinds of surfaces. 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. Add to favorites dark blue with gold 5 sheets text weight handmade fair trade marble paper. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down.

As a variation you place a drop of dish soap in each of the food coloring drops. If you d like to learn how to marble paper read on. 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. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge.

5 out of 5 stars 6 152 6 152 reviews 2 01. Finally i took a cue from my marbled drawer pulls and decided to frame some homemade marbled paper art. Check out my new video made on valentine s day. 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.

If your paper is warped after drying you may place it between two sheets of paper and iron it to flatten it out again. The process is fascinating and really easy. Click on titles below for more information. White marble fine art digital background paper 12 x 12 printable free commercial use create the cut createthecut.

Marbling is one of our favorite art activities and we ve done it many ways and many times over the years. Unfortunately most of the instructions i found online called for expensive dyes or paints something called alum and other specialized tools.