Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design

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To marble paper, you’ll fl oat marbling paint on specially prepared

water, then dip the paper onto that fl oating paint.

Traditional marbling can be a labor-intensive, smelly, and

somewhat toxic process. Of course, traditional marbling provides

the most stunning results, but I don’t have the time, facilities, or

odor stamina to deal with it, so I use a kinder, gentler approach.

If we put paint, even oil paint, on top of regular water, the

paint quickly sinks. In traditional marbling, a material called

carrageenan moss (an edible seaweed) is boiled and allowed to

cure; this creates “ heavy water.” The paint sits on top of this heavy

water ...