Watercolor Marbled Paper

Another really easy way to do paper marbling is using shaving cream and food coloring.

Watercolor marbled paper.

Take a piece of white paper and lay it on the shaving cream. Remove and pat dry with a paper towel. I ve found that alpha cellulose cotton and recycled fibers tend to work well because they are absorbent but have decent wet strength. Use watercolors to create a marbled background effect.

When you re looking for a paper to marble it should generally be an absorbent lightly sized uncoated stock. Marbling is one of our favorite art activities and we ve done it many ways and many times over the years. Blue marble watercolor digital paper pack commercial use aqua background ocean waves scrapbook paper teal marbled watercolor wash textures clipartbrat 5 out of 5 stars 2 812 4 99. This may be a drawing printmaking or sketch paper.

Press lightly and lift gently. Place another sheet over your finished watercolor and oil painting to absorb the extra paint and oil and create beautiful marbled effects. You simply press a piece of paper into shaving cream swirled with liquid watercolours and the colours and patterns are transferred to the paper making it look marbleized. As you can tell from our video below the paint dries almost immediately onto the paper.

We ve marbled all kinds of surfaces. Watercolor techniques with birgit o connor mixing color and water on paper duration. Add your watercolor paper down on the water rough end we cut our paper to a size that fit our pan fully submerging to capture all the paint onto the paper. Today i ll show you how to make marbled paper with shaving cream and liquid watercolours.

Thick white cardstock or watercolour paper ellen hutson letterpress cardstock used here water based dye inks distress inks in shades of green and grey used here. Missing iampeth 2020 handmade watercolor set. And we ve tried every technique from suminagashi to shaving cream marbling. Cheap joe s art stuff 45 439 views.

Vendor mollymarbles regular price sold out sale price 7 25 sale. Vendor mollymarbles regular price. You can use this beautiful paper to make wrapping paper homemade cards book covers and even paper snowflakes. Create fun patterns and let kids decide what colors and and shapes they want.

You cover a baking sheet in shaving cream then add drops of food coloring and use a toothpick or a knife to create a marbled look. The process is fascinating and really easy. Half pan watercolors jan 26th release. Watercolor marble by taheerah atchia.

Set aside on top of your parchment paper or newspaper to dry. We ve marbled paper with all kinds of paints from watercolors tempera acrylics and even food coloring. Last updated on october 30 2019. Missing iampeth 2020 handmade watercolor set.

Drop paint on the paper and then drops of oil over the paint. Hand marbled paper goods artist watercolors.