Marbling Paper Ink

They are pigment inks made of high grade cosmetic pigment with p v a.

Marbling paper ink.

It may seem straightforward until you consider buoyancy and other variables in the mix. Beautiful hand marbleized paper is often used in bookmaking or other paper crafts. 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. In the beginning of my video i show many examples of alcohol ink marbling.

I filled a shallow bowl with water and dropped in 3 4 drops of 3 4 different colors of ranger alcohol inks. This package contains six marbling colour inks in 12ml tubes orange red yellow green blue and black. Today you can make your own rich designs by marbleizing paper to use as stationery and cards. The technique is quite easy.

My experience was certainly a comedy of trials and errors but after a bit of experimenting i hit my marbling sweet spot. Fill your tray with about 1 2 1 inch of water. Various additives or surfactant chemicals are used to help float the colors. There are several methods for making marbled papers.

Marbling is achieved by floating pigment on water and laying paper over the water to transfer the pigment design onto the 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. 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.

You could also use copic marker refill. Oil based inks in a tank of water being prepared for marbling. I used a heavy watercolor stock for my paper but i think you could get away with a nice cardstock. As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper.

Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. 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. Method 1 water marbling all you need for this technique are some alcohol inks paper a tray and water.