Marbling With Oil Paint

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Marbling with oil paint.

The paints we tried are oil based so this was very important. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. One good video about the marbling art on water. Place another sheet over your finished watercolor and oil painting to absorb the extra paint and oil and create beautiful marbled effects.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through. Stir vigorously to be sure oil and color are mixed well as they can be. Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.

Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring in each bowl. 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. You should be going for a milky look to your paint. This original video was created for you by http epsos de and there is an original digital signature in the.

Oil paint the oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors. Create fun patterns and let kids decide what colors and and shapes they want. Lay out your paper over your work surface to project from paint. The alum treated side of the paper is laid over the paint and lifts it off the bath when it is removed.

Oil paint colors cheap oil paints should work just fine we used the m. Drop paint on the paper and then drops of oil over the paint. Graham paints we had on hand. Big plastic bin to float the paint in small containers to mix paint colors and.

How to water marble with acrylic paint. Where there are oil bubbles the water based food coloring won t stick to the paper. Once the paper has dried it s ready to use.