Marbling With Oil Paint

Place another sheet over your finished watercolor and oil painting to absorb the extra paint and oil and create beautiful marbled effects.

Marbling with oil paint.

And because the paint is oil based there s less risk of the pigment sinking to the bottom of your water bath oil and water you know. Fill the pie dish with an inch of water. Oil paint colors cheap oil paints should work just fine we used the m. One good video about the marbling art on water.

Marbling with oil and food coloring since oil and water repel rather than mix the oil marbling technique creates bubbles of color and white spots. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Oil paint the oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors. Lay out your paper over your work surface to project from paint.

The alum treated side of the paper is laid over the paint and lifts it off the bath when it is removed. Where there are oil bubbles the water based food coloring won t stick to the paper. Graham paints we had on hand. The paper is pre treated with a mixture of alum 1 cup desolved in a gallon of water which works as a mordant so the paint will stick to the paper.

How to water marble with acrylic paint. Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much. Drop paint on the paper and then drops of oil over the paint. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer.

You should be going for a milky look to your paint. The paints we tried are oil based so this was very important. This original video was created for you by http epsos de and there is an original digital signature in the. Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through.

Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring in each bowl. Big plastic bin to float the paint in small containers to mix paint colors and. Stir vigorously to be sure oil and color are mixed well as they can be.