Drop the paper on the chalk.
Marbling paper with chalk.
Pull the paper off the water and tadah.
Stir with an old comb or whatever you have to get a nice design.
Dries in a jiffy about half an hours.
Each color is thinned to a good consistency and mixed with the appropriate amount of surfactant.
You can also use colored construction paper depending on the colors of chalk you use.
The students today were doing paper marbling this video is paper marbling with chalk.
Let it sit for about 30 seconds.
Unlike with marbling ink the movement of taking the paper out of the water doesn t really change the pattern the grains of chalk tend to stay where they initially touched the paper.
The mordanted paper absorbs the marbled print a bit more quickly with a slightly sharper quality but this shows that pre mordanted paper is not a requirement.
Rice paper on amazon.
Stir with an old comb or whatever you have to get a nice design.
You can also use colored construction paper depending on the colors of chalk you use.
Lakes are prepared for marbling just like any other watercolor pigment.
Quick tutorial on how to create marbled paper using chalk and water.
In this video i show my technique for making a faux marbled look on rice paper using inexpensive watercolor paints.
Pull the paper off the water and tadah.
Drop the paper on the chalk.
Dries in a jiffy about half an hours.