Marblizing Papers & Examples

I took some images of one of my marbling designs from my class.   I wanted to play with some apps to change colors, etc.   The original colors had yellow, purple and pink.  The image top left has been altered in Tadda. The image on the top right I rotated the design then used PSE 11 to change colors to pink and yellow and increased the saturation in the midtones.  The lower right image I inverted the image with artistic filters to have greens and blues.  The image in the lower right hand corner I changed to yellow orange and red colors. I can print this in a 3 3/4 x 5 inch size on matte photo paper.   That paper will let me stamp with Versafine ink. I would like the marbling to be my main point of interest.  Therefore, I plan to use small sentiments and die cuts that may have filagree designs like butterflies, flowers, swirls.

For this print, I started with get go, then a Maryjo comb. Used the I started Bouquet rake perpendicular to the last design.  However, the design had color areas that were not pleasing in looking at the water bath since bouquet pattern not complete for whole sheet.  So,I decided to take a stylus and makes some swirls.  I think I should have lifted the stylus more to see more separate swirls.  Colors used were green, yellow, purple and a light lavender. I really  like the purple, green, yellow color combination.  The bouquet rake was not part of the kit we could purchase.  Will need to try to make one or order from a marbling supply house.  The green color was from mixing yellow and blue.  Purple from mixing red and blue. For the  lavender shade, the purple was mixed with white. This design could be used for wrapping a small package or cut into pieces to make greeting cards that have matching colors as matt and/or die cuts.   ...

I recently took a course with Anne Murray and learned how to marbilize paper with acrylic paints.  Marbling is not new... but origins not that specific  It was used a lot in the 19th century by bookbinders before the process became automated.  Today it is used by persons interested in creating patterned papers and fabrics.  This art is floating colors of ink or paints on a liquid to create designs/patterns.  The intricacy of the print onto paper will depend on the type of mabling you practice.  Results can be achieved with simple or complex working methods.  The instruction I received dealt with floating Golden Fluid Acrylic paint over a bath of carrageenan. Then using tools to manipulate the pattern The very first lesson was about mixing  the primary paint colors (red, blue, yellow) with distilled water.  We placed the blue color first with an pippette, then the red and the yellow last.  We used a stylus to move the paints by going ...