Marbling With Starch

You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution.

Marbling with starch. 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. Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art. Paper marbling with liquid starch. Drop paint then create lines with a stylus.

Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch. One pan of starch will yield numerous pieces of fabric. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan.

Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design. The science behind the fun. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint.

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. How to make marbleized paper. We tried two methods.

Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. Both worked well but look very different. Starch can last for months. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above.

You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension. Some colors work others don t. We couldn t get enough.

We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper. Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric. Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry.

Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i. Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. One with liquid starch made from cornstarch and tempera paint and another with a marbling kit. Marble in cool low moisture environments for best results.

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