Marble Paper With Liquid Starch

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

Marble paper with liquid starch.

Remove the paper from the water bath and place it painted side facing up on newspaper to dry. 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. Let the paper dry overnight or speed drying with a blow dryer.

4 how to marble paper with liquid starch. Corn starch in 1 2 cup cold water. Make a double recipe of liquid starch by dissolving 4 tbs. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above how to water marble with acrylic paint.

To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. 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. For best results allow the marble paper to dry overnight. This is a marbling technique for kids that i ve always wanted to try and sorta did and sorta didn t.

You can also switch out the water and use the liquid starch instead. Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a sauce pan. We made our own starchy medium with cornstarch and it was only partially effective but apparently you can use liquid starch to marble paper easily as the starch keeps the paint near the surface. In one tray mix a starch bath with 4 cups liquid starch and 1 tsp.

Fill the other tray with water.