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Comment by Heather Wilkie (paganfrog) on April 26, 2023 at 7:41pm

I like your marbling prints, Carien. I like how they all have very different textures. Another technique I can offer isn’t really water marbling but bubble printing. For each colour you want to use you will need a cup or similar bowl, a bottle of children’s bubble blowing liquid and of course drinking straws. You tip the bubble mixture into the cup and mix in a colour paint or ink then you blow through the str to make lots of bubbles rise up above the cup remove the straw and then place paper onto the bubbles and then remove. You can keep doing this with each colour until you are happy with the result 

Comment by Carien van Hest on April 26, 2023 at 4:23pm

Some of the 'fee marbles' that I made:

Comment by Heather Wilkie (paganfrog) on April 26, 2023 at 12:19pm

before I purchased my marbling inks, I tried using my acrylic based art ink in water, but they kept immediately sinking, then I saw a comment about thickening the water with carageenan powder and I wasted money buy a tub of the stuff and found it really awquard to prepare in smaller quantities to the "recipe" suggested for the thickened water. it was for a quantity to fill a table size tray for extra large sheets of paper. and even though I downsized the amount of carageenan powder and water. I still ended up with a huge mess of solidified water. so I didn't like that idea.

In my final search before I threw in the towel, I found mention of sumangashi and I loved the delicate tree rings the technique created. and t said pigment inks give a nicer more delicate print. and found the "Aitoh origami marbling kit"

it has 6 little bottles of ink in red yellow orange green blue and black. and I found then so easy to use on just a tray of water using a vary thin paintbrush to carefully dip on the water surface a drop of ink 

Comment by Carien van Hest on April 26, 2023 at 11:01am

Great colors, Heather! I don't know about the right inks, because it was a workshop and all the materials were there. I used to marble too, but with glycerine and water. Will show some results later on.

Comment by Heather Wilkie (paganfrog) on April 26, 2023 at 10:39am

this is so weird, ive recently played with water marbling and sumanigashi too. I had one of those sudden memories doing water marbling in junior school and I wanted to do it again. after some trial and errors  I found I dont like using acrylic inks as they are heavy and sink too easily, I found a pack of nice pigment inks and I had my first attempts just using some office paper.

I did various paper pulls using the sumangashi method as well as mixing for a marbled effect, heres my favourite 4 sheets so far