Marbling With Starch

The starch should be 1 to 2 inches deep in your pan.

Marbling with starch.

Cool marbling techniques and projects for kids. See recipe to make homemade liquid starch above. You will also need to add textile medium to the acrylic paint solution. Next pour liquid starch into a tray and add drops of paint to the starch to create your design.

We tried two methods. Add more paint and continue to marble more fabric. One with liquid starch made from cornstarch and tempera paint and another with a marbling kit. Some colors work others don t.

The science behind the fun. You will want to continue with the same or similar colors. Both worked well but look very different. I continue marbling fabric until the starch solution is no longer deep enough to support paint.

Drop paint then create lines with a stylus. One pan of starch will yield numerous pieces of fabric. We couldn t get enough. Fyi i used it as a reference on a recent paper marbling tutorial i.

Then lower your paper into the starch with the alum treated side down. Varying the order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. Pour 2 cups of liquid starch in the pan then add 1 2 tsp alum stirring until mixed. We used liquid starch and acrylic paints to marble our own paper.

Marble fabric when dry. Some paint will sink to the bottom do not worry. This post even has. To marble paper start by mixing alum and warm water and wiping the solution over your sheet of paper with a sponge.

You most likely have all the ingredients right at home you need for this marbling technique. Gently drop acrylic paint on the surface of the starch. Starch can last for months. Drop paint one color on top of another consecutively.

Paper marbling with shaving cream from handmade kids art. Iron out any wrinkles do not use spray starch. Paper marbling with liquid starch. Water molecules like to stick together a property which scientists call surface tension.

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.