Thursday, March 11, 2010

New marbled papers

I did some marbling last week. Each time that I pull out my marbling gear, I try a wide range of patterns and techniques, but also I will focus on a couple techniques or patterns in an attempt to improve them by doing them over and over. As you can see from the first few pictures here, I did a bunch of free-form curls on stone patterns - with and without antique spots. (Looks simple, but in fact, I find the antique spots very difficult to apply well.) Actually, these are all basically stone patterns - the black one is the Italian Vein variation, and the last one is stones with a spanish wave.

11 comments:

Shannon Crissey said...

I have never seen the rippling effect before. I think I've fallen in love!

... Paige said...

I love them all, of course.

PrairiePeasant said...

Beautiful! I love the swirls!

MyHandboundBooks said...

Thank you Shannon, Paige, and Laura!!

Acornmoon said...

Gorgeous every one!

MyHandboundBooks said...

thanks tammykingdon and acornmoon :-)

Ruth | Concertina Press said...

These are so gorgeous! spanish wave is tough, I've been trying it out with mixed success...

Radha Pandey said...

Wow!!! Thanks for the beautiful papers that you contributed to the paper swap! I am a proud owner of a few :)

MyHandboundBooks said...

Thanks Ruth! I was just recently looking at your books with the marbled paper, great zebra patterns!

And thanks Radha, so glad you got some of my marbled papers!

Cindy Leaders said...

I love that first blue curl! Makes me think of Avatar. :)

Timaree said...

These are really nice. I just bought a couple of Italian papers from Dick Blick but I like these better and just coming back from your etsy shop I see they are a reasonable price. I've saved your shop so when I save my $ I can get some!

I put the Italian one in a book I just made but if I get some of yours I'll put them here.