Marbling With Starch

Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art.

Marbling with starch.

Drop paint then create lines with a stylus. 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. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. You will want to continue with the same or similar colors.

I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch. The science behind the fun. 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. Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed.

Marble fabric when dry. Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design. One pan of starch will yield numerous pieces of fabric. You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique.

Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan. Both worked well but look very different.

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. Starch can last for months. Some colors work others don t. We tried two methods.

How to make marbleized paper. Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry.

Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension. We couldn t get enough. Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids. This post even has.

Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i.