Marbling With Starch

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Marbling with starch.

Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design. Both worked well but look very different. This post even has. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan.

Paper marbling with liquid starch. You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. Marble in cool low moisture environments for best results. Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids.

Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric. How to make marbleized paper. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art.

I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. One with liquid starch made from cornstarch and tempera paint and another with a marbling kit.

You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above. You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution.

We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension. 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. One pan of starch will yield numerous pieces of fabric.

Drop paint then create lines with a stylus. 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. Marble fabric when dry. Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch.

Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i. We couldn t get enough. Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. We tried two methods.

The science behind the fun.