Marbling With Oil Based Paint

Big plastic bin to float the paint in small containers to mix paint colors and.

Marbling with oil based paint. Marbling with powder paint is easy and economical. Watercolor pape r was the perfect thickness and absorbed the inks beautifully. How to water marble with acrylic paint. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer.

We also tried using watercolor and traditional japanese marbling paper made of mulberry fibers but we found that the japanese paper tore easily and was too thin. The end result is very effective however the necessary materials are not usually close at hand and cleaning up can pose some problems. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Mix a small amount of cooking oil with some powder paint.

You should be going for a milky look to your paint. The word on the internet was that you could create a fun marble effect on all kinds of things using a tub of water and some spray paint. Graham paints we had on hand. Oil paint colors cheap oil paints should work just fine we used the m.

Marbling usually involves oil based paints and turpentine. We decided to try these an oil based paints for marbling which we chose for their bright array of colors. And because the paint is oil based there s less risk of the pigment sinking to the bottom of your water. Since spray paint is oil based the paint floats on water.

Then you can dip your object into the paint and create something beautiful in minutes. In this video i attempt to mix oil and water based paint to see what happens and find out if you can even use it.