Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Marbling


Marbling is so much fun. Basically you make a big vat of gooey stuff. Then you put drops of paint on the surface which float, and then spreads out because of the surface tension. You change to patterns by swirling it, and raking it with combs and stuff like that. You then lay your piece of fabric or paper or whatever flat on the surface. After a few seconds you carefully lift it back up and hopefully the paint stuck. For this piece I used two different colored paints and made circles. Then as I laid the piece down I moved it side to side.

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