Papermaking

 

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Marble Patterns

 

 

 

 

 

 
  • Marble-like: drop paint, then create lines with a stylus.
     
  • Bull’s-eye: drop paint one color on top of another consecutively. Some colors work: others don’t; even varying the  order in which the colors are dropped may affect how they expand. Using an eyedropper may result in air bubbles which need to be broken before printing.
     
  • Hearts: drop color or form bulls eyes, then draw the stylus down the middle of the drop.
     
  • Flowers: Drop color and draw stylus towards the middle of the drop.
     
  • Stars: drop color and draw stylus out from the middle of the drop.
     
  • Splatters: load brush or whisk with paint and tap on rod over the pan. This pattern is traditionally called Stone design.
     
  • Flames: splatter colors then comb from one side to the other several times, always going in the same direction.
     
  • Arches or Scallops: splatter colors then comb from one side to the other, then from top to bottom.
     
  • "Ged Gel": splatter colors and comb from top to bottom, then bottom to top, then from one side to the other. This is a traditional pattern.
     
  • Feathers: splatter colors then comb in one direction, then using a stylus trace a line from top to bottom and back through the pan. 

© Beth LaCour 2001-2003