Marble Painting A Heart

A while ago i posted this how to paint marble on a forum but it was a members only area and thought it may help people.

Marble painting a heart.

I m happy to report that the painted marble finish is beautiful and it s holding up fantastically. You can certainly cut hearts from plain paper card stock before you marble them. You can also dip all of your marbles in paint and let them all roll at the same time. Faux painting techniques such as rag rolling color washing stippling and marbling can instantly change the appearance of walls ceilings.

Akomatial canvas paintings unframed nordic marble heart letters lip picture art poster home living room wall decoration 2 2130cm. Thanks so much linda. If you ve got energetic preschoolers make sure to check out our busy kids. How to water marble with acrylic paint.

How to create a marble effect on a fireplace hearth. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Do a google images search under marble you should find something out there.

I was tossing up ideas for getting the marble look and hand painting was an option though contact paper is just so much easier and probably more realistic looking as it does use an actual high resolution marble photograph. We haven t made a fire yet so i. Preliked family room decoration painting core nordic marble heart letters lip painting picture art poster home wall decor 3 5070cm. Dip a marble in paint and place it in the box.

Then try to find some colors that go well with your sample if you. Painting the marble hearth was a little risky because i wasn t sure if it would actually work but i painted and stenciled the tile hearth in my old home so i decided to chance it here too. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. The shaving cream left a slight whitish residue in addition to the marbled effect of the red paint on the black paper which added a nice effect i thought.

We ve done active art activities in the past such as our splat glove painting and our spin art hearts. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. So the first thing to do is find a marble pattern that you like the look of. The entire upper body is used to hold and then tip the box lid back and forth while the marbles make paint tracks all over the paper heart.

After about 8 10 runs i felt that this heart was complete.