YENİBOSNA PRIMARY SCHOOL

“Art works by using paper”November, 2010Istanbul, TURKEY

Required Materials :

* Pure Water * A Bucket * Gum Tragacanth(Kitre) * A Few Paint Brush * Marbling Colours * Nail * Paper

About Marbling Art…

Marbling is a very old and traditional Turkish art. This technique makes you feel the power of creativity by catching the mystery of both conflicts and harmony of your own will power and power of water and paint. At the same time it provides you to live it by relaxing while you are taking a great pleasure of this event.

What is the link of Marbling Art between our comenius project???

Water has a important value for life and for human being also human psychology. Because human body nearly consists of %70 water. There is a special communication between water and human body-mind-psychology. For this reason, painting on water makes us relaxed,and helps feeling good and explore our inner sight deeply. As a special educators we can use this technique while we were working with special pupils. l want to underline that point; this technique is not really focusing just artistic skills or on art for arts sake!!! Just to get aware of our own ways of acting, of expressing and of creating…

Step 1 To Prepare the pure water : This is first and the most important point of marbling art. Because if you can t catch the right consistency, your painting won t float on water…

You have to add 3 teaspoon gum tragacanth in to 2 liter pure water .Gum tragacanth gives the water a special intensivity Than you have to mix the water till gum get melting complately. (You have to leave the water to rest 24 hours) And next day your pure water will be ready to make marbling art…

Step 2 To make ready bucket: Second day, you will realize that the pure water really more intensive than yesterday. So you can put it in to the bucket as you seen on photo…But there musnt be any bubble on face of water. ıt looks like hair gel, isnt it?

As you seen the pure water is ready to paint on it…By the way, to paint it the brush is not normal brush. It s maden by rosewood & horse hairs…(Horse hairs don t keep tightly the colours so it provides you dancing on water face with colours…)

Step 3 To paint on Pure Water: You have to use the paint brush as you seen on photo. You have to rap the brush on your sign finger…

As you seen the colour floats on water in very different style…

You can use how many different colour you want to use…

You can draw what you want on water by using the nail…Figures, flowers, self-portre etc…

Step 4 To put the paper on water : You have to put the paper on water slowly… And you have to be sure that the paper is really covered the all face of water…You can make a little press with your finger to paper…

Step 5 To take the paper: Also you have to be carefull when you take the paper on water. Firstly you can keep the corner side of paper and keep tightly and take the paper to yourself…

And you have to leave it to dry… You can hang it on the wall or you can cover a book or you can cover your all wall with it… Also you can use it as a background for a photo…

There is no possibility to make same marbling production twice!!! For this

reason each production is “ UNIQUE… ”

The End