Marbling With Starch

Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art.

Marbling with starch.

One with liquid starch made from cornstarch and tempera paint and another with a marbling kit. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch. Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids. We tried two methods.

Marble in cool low moisture environments for best results. You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution. We couldn t get enough. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge.

Wood for even coverage and true color it s best to base coat un finished wood surfaces with white acrylic paint and allow plenty of time to dry before marbling. Starch can last for months. Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i. The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan.

Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. This post even has. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed.

How to make marbleized paper. We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper. Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric. One pan of starch will yield numerous pieces of fabric.

You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique. You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint. Drop paint then create lines with a stylus.

Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. 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. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension. Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down.

Some colors work others don t. Both worked well but look very different. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above. The science behind the fun.

Marble fabric when dry.