Making Marbled Paper With Acrylic Paint

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Making marbled paper with acrylic paint.

To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. This tutorial will show you how to easily marble paper using acrylic paint and liquid cornstarch. Use wheat rice or flour paste and acrylic color to create a marvelous marbled paper. It is that easy.

You can also use any old oil paint thinned to a liquid with turpentine. Place a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and press it down so all of it touches. The alum treated side of the paper is laid over the paint and lifts it off the bath when it is removed. Tap on the handle with a pencil letting the paint speckle the mixture.

The floating paints are swirled into patterns. Once the paper has dried it s ready to use. This method will pleasantly surprise you. Let the mixture cool and spray a thin layer onto your cotton paper.

Continue to add paint use up to five colors covering as much of the mixture s surface as you like. How to water marble with acrylic paint. Then take 3 4 colors of acrylic paint and put drops all over. First prep your paper.

Marbled paper kids activity. Just make sure the paste has to be thick enough to carry the color and that the paper isn t too thick. Start by spraying shaving cream all over a cookie sheet. Quick and easy marbled paper.

The paper is pre treated with a mixture of alum 1 cup desolved in a gallon of water which works as a mordant so the paint will stick to the paper. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Then you capture your design by laying a treated piece of fabric or paper down on top of the paint to transfer the swirls to the fabric. Thin paints until runny with small amounts of water.

Lay flat to dry. Dip a brush into your first paint color and hold it over the tray. Pour the liquid into an empty pan. Fill a spray bottle with warm water.

Marbling is the process of floating fabric paints on the surface of a thick cellulose solution called size somewhat like oil on water. How to make marbled paper. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. So i decided on making her a card make out of marbled paper.

Take a straw and make swirl designs making sure theres still white showing.