So recently I`ve just figured out how to use the schools bloody scanner system, It`s annoying and confusing and doesn`t like working for my e-mail account. You scan in work, it sends it into your e-mail, then you exit the scanning mode and then you have to set it all back up to do it again.
I`m happy because I figured out how to finally use it, but then I`m annoyed because I cannot scan everything in at once like other people can... Cause everything electronic just doesn`t like me.
So these are some of the marbled examples that I`ve done so far, It`s my first time doing it and I`ve been trying to experiment with the colour palettes a bit more.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
You may also notice that each and every one of my pieces that are being scanned in (from now on), will have my name at the bottom just so you know that it`s been done by me! The art technician at my school (Katrina), had a quick conversation with me about people taking my work and passing it off as their own... But I don`t want to ruin the work I scan in by adding a huge watermark plastered across the piece, so for now there will just be a likkle name at the bottom just so you know it`s me.
Also, the font of my name will change depending on what kind of work I`m uploading. For instance, soon I`ll be scanning in my Lino prints as I`ve done some more of the pill prints and you`ll notice that the font on that will change.
Enough about that, I`m sure you`ll get over that tiny likkle name at the bottom.
Paper marbling and making my own paper is something I`ve been wanting to do for a while now but I can either never do it right and it looks like a screwed up piece of paper, or the technique is wrong so I don`t even get the chance to make whatever it is I want to make.
I haven`t had the chance to make my own paper yet, I wish I had the time to do it but it`s taking me a while to sort everything out for my art project... I`ve even gone out and bought myself an A1 portfolio for my University interviews! So I`m extremely excited now and the next couple of months should be very interesting.
So the main way (That I`ve heard of), is to use a mixture of Wallpaper paste and water, pour it into a tray and then use either inks or paints on top to then marble the paper and to create swirly designs.
I know that using the wallpaper and water mixture can actually create more accurate designs as the mixture is thicker and the paints or inks that you use stay on top perfectly still, so when you place the paper on top for the marble print the paint stays in place and prints the way that you exactly want it to print.
The different technique that I`ve been using for these samples was a lot smellier.
For my marbling I used the turpentine method. So you have a tray of water, some oil paints and the the turpentine; you mix some turpentine with the oil paints so it thins out and the splashes some on top of the water. depending on how much turps you added it will create different kind of effects.
The more turps you add, the more swirls, ripples and scales you get when it hits the water. If the mixture of Turps and paint is thicker then you`ll be more likely to get dots of the paints on the sheet... But if you dab into the water with the paints then you get small condensed swirls, if you quickly mix the water before putting the sheet on top of the tray then the swirls look a bit more blended and interesting.
I prefer the Turpentine method to the wallpaper and water method, I`ve tried the wallpaper paste and water method before but the mixture wasn`t the same and the paint on the top wouldn`t shift no matter how many more times I had printed.The turps method is soooo much more interesting as all of the prints I`ve done with have come out completely different instead of perfectly accurate which I think makes them more interesting to look at visually.
Messing around with the colour palettes is also really fun, because you always have some of the previous colours floating around in the water; so every now and then you`ll try and do something really dark, but have blobs of orange and yellow in there. It just makes your prints a lot more visually interesting to look at.
Whatever you do though, just be careful with the turps as the smell of all of the turps gave me such a headache, Just make sure there is enough ventilation in the room, otherwise you`re gonna be in for a migraine. Then make sure that when you splash the oil paints in you don`t get it on your face, I had a green eyebrow for two days cause I couldn`t scrub it off without hurting my eye...
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