Marbling With Starch

Drop paint then create lines with a stylus.

Marbling with starch.

This post even has. Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids. Wood for even coverage and true color it s best to base coat un finished wood surfaces with white acrylic paint and allow plenty of time to dry before marbling. The science behind the fun.

You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique. Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. Marble fabric when dry. Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design.

Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry. Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric. We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper.

The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan. One with liquid starch made from cornstarch and tempera paint and another with a marbling kit. Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge.

Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. We tried two methods. We couldn t get enough. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch.

You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. How to make marbleized paper. Paper marbling with liquid starch. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension.

Some colors work others don t. I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint. Liquid starch is a much more dense liquid and will often allow for the paint to sit at the top allowing for you to dip an item into it for marbling. Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i.

Starch can last for months. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above. You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution. Marble in cool low moisture environments for best results.

Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch.