Marbling With Oil Based Paint

Marbling usually involves oil based paints and turpentine.

Marbling with oil based paint.

Then you can dip your object into the paint and create something beautiful in minutes. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. How to water marble with acrylic paint. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors.

Watercolor pape r was the perfect thickness and absorbed the inks beautifully. Oil paint the oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors. Oil paint colors cheap oil paints should work just fine we used the m. And because the paint is oil based there s less risk of the pigment sinking to the bottom of your water.

We decided to try these an oil based paints for marbling which we chose for their bright array of colors. The end result is very effective however the necessary materials are not usually close at hand and cleaning up can pose some problems. Big plastic bin to float the paint in small containers to mix paint colors and. Graham paints we had on hand.

Mix a small amount of cooking oil with some powder paint. We also tried using watercolor and traditional japanese marbling paper made of mulberry fibers but we found that the japanese paper tore easily and was too thin. In this video i attempt to mix oil and water based paint to see what happens and find out if you can even use it. Turpentine easily found at a hardware store.

The word on the internet was that you could create a fun marble effect on all kinds of things using a tub of water and some spray paint. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer.