Marbling With Oil Paint

Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through.

Marbling with oil paint.

Graham paints we had on hand. 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. Fill the pie dish with an inch of water.

Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring in each bowl. Place another sheet over your finished watercolor and oil painting to absorb the extra paint and oil and create beautiful marbled effects. 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. And because the paint is oil based there s less risk of the pigment sinking to the bottom of your water bath oil and water you know.

Big plastic bin to float the paint in small containers to mix paint colors and. Create fun patterns and let kids decide what colors and and shapes they want. Where there are oil bubbles the water based food coloring won t stick to the paper. How to water marble with acrylic paint.

To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. 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. Drop paint on the paper and then drops of oil over the paint.

Turpentine easily found at a hardware store. Oil paint colors cheap oil paints should work just fine we used the m. The paints we tried are oil based so this was very important. One good video about the marbling art on water.

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. Once the paper has dried it s ready to use. Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.