Dear colleagues, what most marblers do today with eye droppers was achieved with a specially made brush by our ancestors: long bristles were bound to a stick...
I've been pretty busy, so was just catching up with email digests. On the question regarding over marbling, I have not had any trouble doing it with either...
Thank you Iris for mentioning Christopher's work from so long ago now. Christopher proved the Collectors wrong who thought the marbled paintings to be...
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as others have said, you could have just said thank you, instead of picking everything apart. It makes people not want to send anything in. At least they...
As of late I have been trying to marble shell patterns, and I am facing a problem. Whenever I try to make Brown shell, using burnt sienna, the colour turns out...
I'm trying out some layering of color. Drying the first layer, adding the alum, letting that dry and marbling a second layer...some of the paint is washing off...
I was looking thru the posts for the blog for the Center for the bookarts and came across this link: http://content.lib.washington.edu/dpweb/patterns.html and...
Prefer the term "tray" but my student trays are actually poster frames, so go figure! Semantics! Creatively, Pat K. Thomas Facebook.com/seenmymarbles?...
Can the English speaking members please help me out? I'm always wondering about the many words for one thing: tray, trough, basin all seem to be used more or...
Hi I used to use a tray but lately I use a bucket...easy clean up. I have been marbling three deminsional objects lately so this has been help ful keeping the...
I was looking around youtube and found a section on "swirled" guitar bodies. They also did motorcycle helmets and wooden objects, for those of you that were...
Last month's marble swap (nine papers and one fabric!) was simply divine. I've posted photos of the lovely pieces I received on my website for all to enjoy: ...
Suminagashi Sensei Tadao Fukada at work in Echizen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nAez1H9iAw The same YouTube channel features many of Japan's "Living...
I recently discovered this amazing artform and I love it! I'm tweaking my process. I'm using carageen size and Jacquard airbrush paints as well as Dr. Ph....
Lot of interest in fabric marbling on the forum lately. Just a reminder that an extended weekend class at Arrowmont is coming up & the deadline is quickly...
Happy New Year to All - may all your colors float! The Arrowmont School of Art and Craft (Gatlinburg, Tennessee) catalog came earlier this week, and what an...
When reading the old manuals on this subject ( woolnough & sumner ) , they seem to neglect any mention of binders when making the paints used . Now, is the...
Hello Swap Group, I have finally sent out my samples yesterday to all 9 of the folks who participated in this wonderful exchange. Being a busy mother of two...
The black paint that I use is made of lampblack .Now, it seems that the colour in question needs an extraodinary amount of gall to make it spread, ( this even...
Thank you to those of you who responded to my question. I just found this message board this week and have been busy reading past posts. Have found a lot of...
"Marbling-- A Little Paper & A Lot of Fabric!" Extended weekend class beginning on Thursday evening, March 22 through Sunday, March 25, 2012. From catalog: ...
Dear all, here's something nice for those who read German: the newly published book by Marianne Moll, the Grand Old Lady of Swiss paper decoration. It started...
My system, which combines a couple of people's methods that I learned from. is to pour the alum in a glass pie plate, then put the paper in a cookie sheet...
