Marbling With Starch

Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric.

Marbling with starch. 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. Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i. Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. Marble in cool low moisture environments for best results.

Starch can last for months. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above.

We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper. Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids. Drop paint then create lines with a stylus. 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.

Marble fabric when dry. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan. You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution. One with liquid starch made from cornstarch and tempera paint and another with a marbling kit.

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. We couldn t get enough. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry.

Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. The science behind the fun. I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint.

You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. Some colors work others don t. We tried two methods.

Paper marbling with liquid starch. You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique. This post even has. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch.

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