Marbling With Starch

Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design.

Marbling with starch.

Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch. Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i. Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art.

How to make marbleized paper. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. We couldn t get enough. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension.

Drop paint then create lines with a stylus. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above. You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry.

Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids. 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. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively.

Some colors work others don t. Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch. Paper marbling with liquid starch. You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution.

The science behind the fun. Marble fabric when dry. Starch can last for months. We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper.

Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. We tried two methods. Both worked well but look very different. I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint.

This post even has. You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan. One pan of starch will yield numerous pieces of fabric.

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.