Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a dish and add food coloring.
Water marbling with oil paint.
Dilute with some warm water to make it more fluid to pick up with your droppers.
Wear disposable gloves this was a must in keeping messes to a minimum as oil based paints.
How to water marble with acrylic paint.
Once we were.
Creative learning for kids.
If you add too much water and you will lose the vibrant colors.
Marbling with oil and food coloring step 1.
Pour oil into little bowls it does not take much.
To water down your paint a bit add equal parts water to your acrylic paint and mix with a wooden skewer.
The oil paint method of marbling is a bit more labor intensive but it allows you to create totally customized colors.
Then we just poured the paints on top of the water.
And because the paint is oil based there s less risk of the pigment sinking to the bottom of your water bath oil and water you know.
Add some water to your shallow pan about halfway through.
The paints we tried are oil based so this was.
Then you can dip your object into the paint and create something beautiful in minutes.
Generally when the activity of painting comes to mind we think of paintbrushes.
Put a few drops of either watercolor or food coloring.
Add oil color mixture to water.
The word on the internet was that you could create a fun marble effect on all kinds of things using a tub of water and some spray paint.
Slowly drip the paint into your liquid starch mixture.
Pour an inch of water give or take into a shallow pie pan or baking dish.
Mix oil and color.
Add watercolor paints to your clear plastic cups.
Using the wooden skewer.
You should be going for a milky look to your paint.
Marbling with oil marbling with oil.
In one cup add some vegetable oil.
Basic supplies step 1.
Since spray paint is oil based the paint floats on water.