Marbling Instructions 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.

Marbling instructions paper.

A type of gum seaweed gives the water a degree of viscosity. Carefully lay sheet of paper on the water but don t submerge it. Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. 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.

Skimming and paint prep 2. Pulling a printed sheet 4. Leave these pages for 20 30 min. The best easiest and cheapest diy marbled paper is done with shaving cream marbling.

Dissolve 4 tablespoons 60 grams of alum in one quart 95 l of warm water. Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. 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. Hang paper to dry marbleized side up.

Purchase one of a kind hand marbled paper here. Cleaning the tray 5. Use this traditional technique to make your own patterned fabric one of a kind wrapping paper greeting cards fine art and more. Remove the paper as soon as it s flat starting at the corner.

In the alum solution and then line dry. A tray with the approximate dimensions of the paper to be marbled is filled with this liquid to depth of about six centimeters. Experiment with different types of paper and see which is best for you. As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper.

This is one of our all time favorite art activities. Swirl the colours with your stir stick blow on the surface with a straw or use a comb to create marble patterns. Each design is as unique as a fingerprint. Lay the sheet out to dry.

Fill a marbling tray with the alum solu tion and submerge each piece of paper one at a time.