WHAT?
For Christmas I was given a marbling kit by my publisher daughter. It is a serious kit and needed the study of the entire instruction manual and several YouTube videos, followed by a preparation day constructing the brushes, making the size and coating the paper with alum as a mordant before I could even start in with some paint!
I’m recording it here because the instructor describes each outcome as “a unique contact print” – sounds very like a monoprint to me.
SO WHAT?
The paint supplied was acrylic-based, and I started by working through the instructions to find out the types of outcomes possible – there are several classic named designs. Here are a few basic ones:
I went on to try more classic designs and also played about experimenting with some free marks, swirls and squiggles. The designs always look so faint on the surface of the size as very little paint is needed, and it’s always a moment of wonder to peel back the paper and see what’s revealed!
NOW WHAT?
- Need to generate a bit more of that sense of excitement in peeling back the paper with my oil monotypes – so far have been a bit underwhelmed with my outcomes
- Am going to try to use some of my free, less bright and busy marbling outcomes to print my oil monotypes onto so they form backgrounds – a monoprint on a monoprint, as it were
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