Marble Paper With Liquid Starch

Let the paper dry overnight or speed drying with a blow dryer.

Marble paper with liquid starch.

Hold the paper over the starch while the excess drips off. Corn starch in 1 2 cup cold water. 4 how to marble paper with liquid starch. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above how to water marble with acrylic paint.

Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design. Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a sauce pan. Mark one side of your watercolor paper with an a and use a sponge brush to apply alum solution evenly to that side of the paper. Remove the paper from the water bath and place it painted side facing up on newspaper to dry.

To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. For best results allow the marble paper to dry overnight. Make a double recipe of liquid starch by dissolving 4 tbs. 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.

In one tray mix a starch bath with 4 cups liquid starch and 1 tsp. Place the paper painted side facing down onto the surface of the water in the tub to remove the starch. Fill the other tray with water. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down.

Trays should be larger than paper in cups dilute 2 parts of each paint color in 3 parts water.