Hi everyone. Hope you had a nice weekend.
Our weather was cool with a mix of sun and clouds. It was perfect outdoor weather to try some easy marbling.
I took a marbling class at an art college several years ago, and it was fun but needed several products. I've also tried the shaving cream technique which is pretty easy and gives some cool results too.
Then I saw these Marabu easy marbling paints and since they weren't very expensive, I decided to try some.
This is a photo I found on the internet, not my paints.
So I got a disposable roasting pan and added a bit of water to it. Then I used my paints. They come with a small opening so you can shake the paint onto the water.
I saw online where you could use a skewer (like the wooden ones you could slide food onto to grill) and swirl it through the paint, but I didn't have any luck doing that. When I tried it the paint just clumped up into a big mess.
But if I tilted the pan and swirled the water a bit to move the paint around, I got some interesting effects.
Some of these papers I dipped just once in the pan and some of these I dipped 2 or more times. Once you dip the paint on the top of the water sticks to your paper so you have to spread new paints.
I used a pan that was big enough to dip my 11x8 inch paper into.
All of these were done on watercolor paper. I also tried some on a bit of black cardstock.
The cardstock wrinkled quite a bit more but gave a totally different look.
I made a whole stack of paper and I'm sure you'll see some used for backgrounds soon.
It was a fun couple of hours of play.
I hope you like my papers .
Thanks for visiting.
