Water Marbling with Cornstarch? DIY Ebru Marbling at Home
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I received an email from a friend about using liquid laundry starch to do a variation on Turkish Ebru paper marbling - unable to find it locally, I decided to give the cornstarch option a try. It's not the greatest, but it technically works.
This option is nice if you want to try ebru marbling but want to use materials on hand rather than purchasing methyl cellulose or carrageenan online. The results aren't very defined and the colors become muddled.
I really liked the fact that the finished paper had such lovely pastel colours! I think the experiment was a great success. I love your wooden marbling tool with the nails! Such a great idea, thank you very much for sharing!
Did you put alum on your paper? The colors will be more intense if you do. And you need to boil the cornstarch to thicken it. But really, who is to say what is right and wrong as you had nice results. Different art forms were created by people and you can vary techniques like you have and still have pretty results. Experiment and you'll never know until you do.
I agree
If you use washing up liquid also that should help with surface tension and create more cells that you were after✌🏼😉 love that second design, stunning!!!
Really beautiful ❤️
wow! seriously this is soo good I have done a video on my channel but this is seriously mindblowing. I want to try with cornstarch now, u inspired me
Always boil starch befoe using it in craft and art projects it will work much better
I believe you should first cook an amount of starch with water in order to obtain a gel like mixture and dillute it till you could reach the consistence of a carragena gel. Remember that the carragena (not the powder) is cooked to extract de gel.
Thanks for the tip, I will try that next time!
There are specific ratios for cooking, thickening with cornstarch. Thin is 1/2 tablespoon starch to a cup of cold liquid. Medium is 1 tablespoons and thick is 1 1/2 tablespoons per cup. Stir cold water into the powder and when it is all wet, heat on medium heat, stirring until it becomes clear. These proportions are also for pudding, made with milk and sugar. I would make a cup of thin first and then try the thicker... it doesn't work too well to add more starch after it is cooked.
Kathleen Roush which i could copy this
Yes, bring water to a boil, take off heat and then add corn starch (or tapioca starch) or arrowroot powder. Whisk in until dissolved. Best used after cooled then store overnight in the refridge and do the marbleizing the next day.
@@CrystalShaulis what kind of paint or ink did you use?
i am also from Michigan! i do watermarbling very different than everyone on here. its hard to get all those things since i have no clue what they are. your video helped me so much aha. thank you ! beautiful work and very informative !
Kassy Sunshine I'm from Michigan too☺
Nice!
I wonder how this held up? I used cornstarch and flour to make a paste and covered my bathroom wall to give it texture, about 7 years ago and it is still on the wall!!
Hello !
Did you try water with dish soap mix ?
In my case , it works beautifully !
...and yes , you need alum on the paper ...because the colors are not intense ...
If you dont spatter but use dropper you would get less cauliflowering ?
Thanks for this nice video tutorial. Please tell me can I use this method for fabrics.
What is the ratio of starch and water? Can I use potato starch? How long shall I boil it? I really want to try this!!
dont you have to cook the cornflour in the water to thicken then cool and cover with plastic to cool?
Hey! Can you please make a video on the space you build to make this happen? (Like the contraption that holds the water.) Thank you. This is so rad.
Thanks! Us uncreative people have NO Idea where to get exotic ingredients and I even considered using clear gelatin! Shaving cream has also been used - just spread it in a cookie sheet and use food coloring, then scrape it off to reveal design (after pulling skewer through colors for wavy design! Thanx!
+Nancy Blair Haha, necessity is the mother or invention, so I say give the gelatin a shot anyway!
Look for gelatin plate... there are recipes asks some to make a permanent one, too. It is different than this but a lot of fun!
I've been toying around with the pottery thing. I think I might have to adapt this technique using slip to decorate pottery. Very cool.
This is a good tutorial... I tried it.... not good results... started over... left OUT the FLOUR... It turned out much better...
appreciate the research; my twin sis has never seen paper marbleing (?!) before & i want to show her how it's done. ✌💜
Please can you tell what is proportion of corn strach n water used
Cornstarch and water that isn’t cooked forms a non Newtonian fluid which isn’t great for size. You needed to cook the cornstarch to a thick gel consistancy that you can then thin to the level you require. Uncooked cornstarch will just settle out, start her at the bottom, water on top, so not really what you need.
How do you rinse your prints? In a separate tray of water or under running water? I tried both with the liquid starch (I did find it at the store) and the ink kind of wanted to run off the paper. maybe I need to do the alum coating. I followed your other video for suminagashi and that seemed to work better than the starch.
Usually to rinse it's with a cup that has been filled with water and gently poured over. Like you mentioned, try coating the paper alum, or test another paper. I did pick up some liquid starch but haven't gotten around to trying it - hope it works!
I would like to know how this would work if you cooked the starch. 1 cup water to 1 tablespoon corn starch boiled and cooled would probably result in a consistency closer to agar or carageenan.
I had thought about trying this but preparing the cornstarch like you would do with gravy. Adding cold water mixed w cornstarch to warm water... Wondered if that would leave it thicker. Also, for liquid starch, what about getting a can of it and spraying it into your water?
What paint are you using ?
Try using a soaked paintbrush and very wet and less flicking action
Great video. FYI, staflo liquid starch available at Gull Road Walmart if you're still looking to try 😉
You could stick the straws, in a piece of cane,from around a creek, stream or river, or buy them at a craft store and have a life time supply.
Hi do we have to take warm water or plain paper
How much water did you add to the cornstarch and flour?
Cornstarch is also in the Baking isle too ;)
how much water is that?
Hello, I come from China, I would like to ask you, love you, could you please tell me what color is used? Thank you.
+鸡蛋碰石头 Hello! Since I used a few colors, do you perhaps mean paint? If so, the paints are acrylics with water added to them. They should be the consistency of cream.
sorry but I don't speak your language
Would it be possible to know what kind of paint to use and what is the base liquid?
can it be acrylic paint or is it another type? Thank you very much for your help, the papers are beautiful
Monica Calb it’s acrylic paint mixed with water. The liquid is water mixed with cornstarch
@@fancifuldevices Thank you very much for your explanation. If possible know in what proportion of water and cornstarch? If it's not secret, I'd like to know. Many, thank you very much
what if you took some of the water & cornstarch and heated it up like you would when you make gravy, then added it back to the rest of the mixture in the vat? Wouldn't that thicken it up enough that you wouldn't need the flour?
Do we need to cool down the cornstarch mix before using the paints?
I think so! In general, the size should be at room temperature, so I was going by that rule of thumb. It's hard to wait that long!
what paint did you use for this video?
When you use ox gall in the paint you willl be MORE exiting.
Did you cook the starch? Think of how Chinese sauces have that silky texture...it's cornstarch that does that!
Creepy vampire face at 9:28
Try other medium of paints
I live just south of Kalamazoo!
What is marbling gall?
wow very nice vedio
I live in battle creek!
hey neighbor!
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Great improvising. Carrageenan is expensive and hard to find in the local market.
BUT...corn starch must be brought to a boil before it thickens. You do know that?. If you didn't apply heat to the cornstarch, it won't thicken much.
Go to the end to see the result, then decide if you want to waste your time watching....
You should have heated it until it thickened, like making gravy.
No one are ET in the paint In the tray at the end of the video? Or maybe a baby dinosaur
Not is good like a Ebru art
not good.
Oh my,...you are soooo Debbie Downer!
“I don’t have high hopes”. “I don’t really care”. Why even bother??
Please,... if you have kids,.. be more positive with what they try, even if they fail.
Erm commenting few years later. But i feel it was just low confidence in what she was trying to make, cause she never tried it before. I don't see how is this negative, it's just realistic.
@@Agaricus_cuscus well,… being negative towards something you have never tried,..will that help your confidence or success?
@@Plantgarden88 i don't call kt negative, it's just beinh nervous. I a lot of times have nervous feeling that it wont turn out well, but that doesnt mean i am negative in general. Actually usually i am very positive. But saying things like "i don't habe high hopes" its more like saying that i don't think there is high probability it will turn out well. And "i don't really care" could be in sense, i don't really care atleast i tried. I don't view these sentences as negative but thats my opinion