Marbling Instructions Paper

Marbling begins first with the dissolving seaweed powder in water seaweed is a white material derived from an ocean plant.

Marbling instructions paper.

As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper. Skimming and paint prep 2. Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. Cleaning the tray 5.

In the alum solution and then line dry. Purchase one of a kind hand marbled paper here. Hang paper to dry marbleized side up. Experiment with different types of paper and see which is best for you.

Overmarbling waves 7. Use this traditional technique to make your own patterned fabric one of a kind wrapping paper greeting cards fine art and more. Carefully lay sheet of paper on the water but don t submerge it. 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.

Marbling technique videos by lp lpres from album marbling 1. Leave these pages for 20 30 min. 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. 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.

Remove the paper as soon as it s flat starting at the corner. Dissolve 4 tablespoons 60 grams of alum in one quart 95 l of warm water. A type of gum seaweed gives the water a degree of viscosity. The best easiest and cheapest diy marbled paper is done with shaving cream marbling.

Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. Fill a marbling tray with the alum solu tion and submerge each piece of paper one at a time. Lay the sheet out to dry. Pulling a printed sheet 4.

A tray with the approximate dimensions of the paper to be marbled is filled with this liquid to depth of about six centimeters.