More Marbling Adventures - This Should Scare All My Faithful Readers Away!

These first two were done using the eye dropper method of dropping color. If you compare it to the images below, you can see that there are broader areas of color and more definition here but less blooming (which gives a more wiggly feel to the fabric).

Well, back to the tray but I am running out of some colors, so will hit the Art Store this afternoon and get some more (as well as finally putting in an order to Dick Blick who has the best prices for Golden!) I never thought I would use up those Golden Paints! I am concentrating again on adding lots of light values and have gone back to trying the eye dropper again. It gives you a very different look (more open). I am also moving to smaller and smaller "things" to move the colors around. The piece of foam core board that I am using now is only about 6 inches across while my tray is 18 x 24 inches (a very nice size to get a fat quarter). With the eyedropper method, you don't get as much blooming which causes some nice distortion but you get a more "artistic" look rather than a solid color look (except close up where the solid is obviously not solid at all). Today I started with just blues and purples as I want some to use in the Bird of Paradise.

I shrunk these next two down as you must be bored with pictures of marbled fabric by now but I can't help myself. I'll need a ten-step program pretty soon! I switched to a blue/purple theme today and then added in turquoise as the day wore on -- in honor of my friend Marcia.







This one was kind of interesting as I removed color with a thin strip after I had swirled it around a bit. What was most interesting was my brush cleaner water where I kind of squeegeed the paint I took off -- if I had a small piece of cloth hanging around, I would have taken a print. You can probably see this better if you double click.

This was done as the first print after lunch where some leftover color was left to move around in the tray. Because of the surface tension, it tends to congregate together somewhere near the middle. You get some interesting prints this way. However, eventually, the paint dries out on top and then it won't adhere to your cloth so there is a finite amount of time you can leave this.