Marbling With Oil Paint

Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through.

Marbling with oil paint.

Place another sheet over your finished watercolor and oil painting to absorb the extra paint and oil and create beautiful marbled effects. The paints we tried are oil based so this was very important. Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring in each bowl. Big plastic bin to float the paint in small containers to mix paint colors and.

The alum treated side of the paper is laid over the paint and lifts it off the bath when it is removed. Create fun patterns and let kids decide what colors and and shapes they want. Oil paint the oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors. One good video about the marbling art on water.

Fill the pie dish with an inch of water. Once the paper has dried it s ready to use. Graham paints we had on hand. Where there are oil bubbles the water based food coloring won t stick to the paper.

Stir vigorously to be sure oil and color are mixed well as they can be. Oil paint colors cheap oil paints should work just fine we used the m. Marbling with oil and food coloring since oil and water repel rather than mix the oil marbling technique creates bubbles of color and white spots. You should be going for a milky look to your paint.

To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Drop paint on the paper and then drops of oil over the paint. How to water marble with acrylic paint. The paper is pre treated with a mixture of alum 1 cup desolved in a gallon of water which works as a mordant so the paint will stick to the paper.

Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much. If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Lay out your paper over your work surface to project from paint.