Water Marbling With Oil Paint

The oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors.

Water marbling with oil paint.

Pour an inch of water give or take into a shallow pie pan or baking dish. Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture. Basic supplies step 1. 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.

You should be going for a milky look to your paint. Generally when the activity of painting comes to mind we think of paintbrushes. Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring. The word on the internet was that you could create a fun marble effect on all kinds of things using a tub of water and some spray paint.

Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a dish and add food coloring. The paints we tried are oil based so this was. To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer. Creative learning for kids.

How to water marble with acrylic paint. Wear disposable gloves this was a must in keeping messes to a minimum as oil based paints. In one cup add some vegetable oil. Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through.

If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors. Add watercolor paints to your clear plastic cups. Sometimes we did little drops. Marbling with oil and food coloring step 1.

Using the wooden skewer. Add oil color mixture to water. Then we just poured the paints on top of the water. Mix oil and color.

Before we got started we made a comb by taping toothpicks into a small strip of card stock. Once we were. Since spray paint is oil based the paint floats on water. Then you can dip your object into the paint and create something beautiful in minutes.

Dilute with some warm water to make it more fluid to pick up with your droppers.