Marbling Paper Ink

Save money by making your own mableizing ink.

Marbling paper ink.

Marbling is achieved by floating pigment on water and laying paper over the water to transfer the pigment design onto the paper. You could also use copic marker refill. 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. 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.

I used a heavy watercolor stock for my paper but i think you could get away with a nice cardstock. It may seem straightforward until you consider buoyancy and other variables in the mix. There are several methods for making marbled papers. Today you can make your own rich designs by marbleizing paper to use as stationery and cards.

As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper. Fill your tray with about 1 2 1 inch of water. During a special process. This package contains six marbling colour inks in 12ml tubes orange red yellow green blue and black.

Method 1 water marbling all you need for this technique are some alcohol inks paper a tray and water. These innovative marbling inks are not ordinary dyes. Various additives or surfactant chemicals are used to help float the colors. Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry.

The marbling pigments sold by most arts and crafts suppliers can be quite expensive and are not always readily available. I filled a shallow bowl with water and dropped in 3 4 drops of 3 4 different colors of ranger alcohol inks. Oil based inks in a tank of water being prepared for marbling. They are pigment inks made of high grade cosmetic pigment with p v a.

My experience was certainly a comedy of trials and errors but after a bit of experimenting i hit my marbling sweet spot. In the beginning of my video i show many examples of alcohol ink marbling. 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.