Marbling With Sumi Ink

Learn how to create this mesmerizing marbling technique and print your creation onto paper or fabric.

Marbling with sumi ink.

Suminagashi translates to floating ink in japanese. Instead follow these instructions to make your own inks with old oil paints that can be used to create elegant marbleized papers. Tbc the best crafts 33pcs marbling art paint kit value bundle marble. Suminagashi ink is a type of japanese hydrophobic ink used in calligraphy and for book binding.

Raw art is meaningful art you make with a minimum of equipment and without kits. Using this simple technique you can create beautiful one of a kind ink prints by dipping paper onto the ink on the water. Information on the ancient asian technique of ink marbling or suminagashi. Creativity is a wonderful experience it is elastic and unique to each of us.

This special kind of ink floats on the surface of water and creates interesting patterns when mixed with other inks and stirred. Teagas chinese calligraphy brush ink writing sumi paper xuan paper rice paper for chinese calligraphy brush writing sumi set 14 x 10 inch. Marbling paper is a complicated process. Free shipping on your first order shipped by amazon.

Suminagashi is the japanese art of marbling dating back to the 12th century. 4 3 out of 5 stars 334. Get it as soon as thu oct 1. I decided to build on swarup s project and take it in a different direction suminagashi a japanese technique of floating ink on water with a brush creating a pattern then printing it on paper.

November 10 2010 november 10 2010 quinncreative. But one of the easiest is using japanese sumi ink and plain water to create beautiful black gray and white designs on a variety of papers. Yesterday you saw the technique of marbling paper using sumi ink. Translating directly to floating ink the marbling process uses a richly pigmented sumi ink floating on water which is then manipulated into distinctive patterns.