Showing posts with label paper marbling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper marbling. Show all posts

Saturday, 9 October 2010

All the leaves are turning...


Were we back at the marbling today but we ventured onto fabric and surprisingly the paint seemed to like sticking to the fabric much better than the paper. 






Four hands needed in the fabric marbling operation to get a nice even coating of paint. We are using acrylic liquitex, which has the right consistency for floating and keeps its vibrancy. 






With some pretty amazing results all round, it's really pot luck to see what will happen to each bit of fabric or piece of paper, as what you see floating in the mixture is often not what ends up on the page. A bit of magic...

Saturday, 18 September 2010

Autumn - a return to making


We started back the crafty Autumn 'term' with something completely different - paper marbling. 



Paper treated with a special substance called alum is placed on top of a liquid mixture that has paint floating in it. The paper picks up whatever pattern the paint makes. You can make all sorts of patterns when the paint is floating and the results are, well, psychedelic!





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