Marbling Paper With Liquid Starch

You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique.

Marbling paper with liquid starch.

Hold the paper over the starch while the excess drips off. It s cheap easy and relatively not messy. 1 2 tsp alum helps paint adhere to the paper 2 cups liquid starch liquid acrylic paints a long wooden skewer a 9 x 13 pan and white copy paper cut to fit the inside your pan. We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper.

Trays should be larger than paper in cups dilute 2 parts of each paint color in 3 parts water. Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art. I start by pouring about an inch of liquid starch into an old 9 x12 pan. Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design.

See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above how to water marble with acrylic paint. Remove the paper from the water bath and place it painted side facing up on newspaper to dry. 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. Let the paper dry overnight or speed drying with a blow dryer.

Make a double recipe of liquid starch by dissolving 4 tbs. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge. To make this fun and easy marbleized paper you will need. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down.

In one tray mix a starch bath with 4 cups liquid starch and 1 tsp. Mark one side of your watercolor paper with an a and use a sponge brush to apply alum solution evenly to that side of the paper. We made our own starchy medium with cornstarch and it was only partially effective but apparently you can use liquid starch to marble paper easily as the starch keeps the paint near the surface. You can change up the size of the pan just keep the proportions of starch and alum the same.

This is a marbling technique for kids that i ve always wanted to try and sorta did and sorta didn t. Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a sauce pan. We couldn t get enough. Corn starch in 1 2 cup cold water.

I ve tried a number of different techniques for marbling paper but this one is my favorite. You can also switch out the water and use the liquid starch instead. This post even has a video to help you along. Fill the other tray with water.

Paper marbling with liquid starch.