Water Marbling Cloth

Reserve alum mixture in bin to use over several days.

Water marbling cloth.

Wear disposable gloves while treating and marbling the fabric. Hang it out to dry well before you start the marbling process. Mix 3 tablespoons of alum per quart of hot water in one of the buckets. Examples do exist of cloth marbled with watercolor paints notably the cover of charles woolnaugh s 1853 book the art of marbling.

Stir thoroughly to dissolve the crystals. How to water marble with acrylic paint. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Removing bubbles from marbling medium.

Swish fabric to make sure the material is saturated. Mix 3 tablespoons alum per quart of hot tap water in a bin. I love exploring colors water marbling and acrylic pouring are 2 ways for me to change medium and becoming a better artist. To do this mix one quart of hot water with three tablespoons of alum and soak the cloth for twenty minutes.

Add more paint and do another piece of fabric. You can use a sheet of newspaper to collect leftover paint from the. Add water to the size then re apply paints. Add the fabric to the bucket.

Soak leather or prewashed fabric in mixture for 20 minutes or brush onto paper. Step by step instructions for marbling with acrylic paint on fabric. Thin the colors with water then test. Hand marbled book cloth was produced beginning in the 1830s as a durable inexpensive alternative to leather.

Make enough solution to cover your fabrics. The marbling colors might be too thick. The floating paints are swirled into patterns. Allow the solution to cool.

Marbling is the process of floating paints on the surface of a thick cellulose solution called size somewhat like oil on water. In the large tray or tin create the marbling mix by mixing one tablespoon of ammonia with four tablespoons of methocel in tepid water. Drop different colors of acrylic paint onto the marbling medium some paints move faster than others. It is that easy and a great project for kids small parties and classes.

To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Carefully pull the fabric out of the mixture and place it on newspaper to dry. Fill a tub with marbling medium and remove bubbles from the medium using folded newsprint. There was too much time spent between making the pattern and putting the fabric in the paint mixture.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. The marbling base is too thick.