Materials Needed: Cardstock(or other thick paper), powdered tempera paints, shallow cake pan or biscuit tray, oil, teaspoons for mixing, and some painting cups.
Add some oil to each cup and mix in powdered tempera to desired color. (add salt to powdered tempera for a glittery effect).
Fill cake/biscuit pan with water till its about halfway to the top. Then use a spoon to drop the paint mixture onto the water.
Dropping the oiled paint into the water is amazing to watch… the colors sort of explode… we had a lot of “woah and oooh” remarks here.
If you like you can swirl the colors around lightly.
Place paper on top of the mixture and leave it for about 30 seconds to a minute to float… (i removed it when i could see circular marks through the back of the paper).
Here is what it looks like:
We put them on top of newspaper to dry.
Then we tried painting on wax paper.
In this picture… the painting on the upper left(and bottom right) are done on wax paper… the others are done on cardstock. Deens 8 year old cousin loved this project… she had a lot of fun creating!
The winner of our Picpocket book giveaway is Comment #3. (chosen by random.org)
Congratulations to HoneyMommy!!
Susana says
September 13, 2009 at 12:10 amOh, I really like these. They look so colorful and so unique!
Michelle says
September 13, 2009 at 1:04 amThat looks really neat!
Nicole {tired, need sleep} says
September 13, 2009 at 3:09 amWe've marble-ized paper with shaving cream and paint before, but never this way. I love how it looks in the pan, and I think we'll be trying this! I like the idea of painting on wax paper too – I'm thinking it might make a cool suncatcher, do you think? Great ideas – thanks for sharing!
JaelCustomDesigns says
September 13, 2009 at 4:49 amPopping in from the MBC!
Following you now 🙂
JaelCustomDesigns says
September 13, 2009 at 4:49 amPopping in from the MBC!
Following you now 🙂
An Almost Unschooling Mom says
September 13, 2009 at 7:05 amI really like the way this turned out. It's going in my "must try" file. Thanks.
Honey Mommy says
September 13, 2009 at 9:57 amThanks so much! I am looking forward to trying out my online book!
Valerie says
September 13, 2009 at 4:29 pmSo cool, and looks like the kids had a great time! We love painting on wax paper.. and sometimes aluminum foil. So much fun! Love how the oil paintings turned out!
Raising a Happy Child says
September 14, 2009 at 9:26 amI really like these projects, just not brave enough to try marbleized paper – looks so messy to me. I admit – I am terribly mess averse 🙂
confused homemaker says
September 15, 2009 at 11:48 pmit turns out great! i saw marbelizing paper done by martha stewart & have wanted to try it since then. this is a cool variation of that.