http://www.bookoftheerinyes.com/journal/2009/08/marbled-paper/ Being a True And Illustrated Account of Vengeful Pursuit & Damnation Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:43:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.bookoftheerinyes.com/journal/2009/08/marbled-paper/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 lesley Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:52:55 +0000 http://www.bookoftheerinyes.com/journal/?p=99#comment-1680 Marbling paper is a very satisfactory pastime. We teachers can get kids to do it on the cheap, floating gloss housepaint or oilpaint mixed with white spirit onto water. We use mainly blue, then the child makes an illustration on a separarate sheet, perhaps themselves swimming, then cuts it out and pastes it on top. Looks good! a technique used by Roger Dean in the 70s. Another way is to float oily colours on water. Use an eye-dropper. Drop soapy water in the middle. The soap destroys the surface tension and immediately a cirular hole appears in the pattern. By carefully adding more oily paint and more soap, a pattern of circles and rings can be made which is cooli-o. Marbling paper is a very satisfactory pastime. We teachers can get kids to do it on the cheap, floating gloss housepaint or oilpaint mixed with white spirit onto water. We use mainly blue, then the child makes an illustration on a separarate sheet, perhaps themselves swimming, then cuts it out and pastes it on top. Looks good! a technique used by Roger Dean in the 70s.
Another way is to float oily colours on water. Use an eye-dropper. Drop soapy water in the middle. The soap destroys the surface tension and immediately a cirular hole appears in the pattern. By carefully adding more oily paint and more soap, a pattern of circles and rings can be made which is cooli-o.

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