[Woodcarver] marbling a wooden carved plinth

[maricha]

bill, hopefully the experiment will turn out fine and will send photos.
cheers
maricha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Smith" <baydolphs at yahoo.com>
To: <irish at carvingpatterns.com>; "[Woodcarver]"
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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Woodcarver] marbling a wooden carved plinth


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> would lov to see what this effect looks like if u have
> a pic of it would u please sent it to me
>
> Bill
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> > > Good Morning Marcia,
> >
> > I haven't  tried marbleizing with wood carving but
> > we use to do a
> > technique for ceramics years ago.
> >
> > Working in acrylics we would base coat the work
> > first with a pale gray
> > tone over everything.  Then using a wool sponge (one
> > of those with the
> > great big holes that are just great for the bath
> > tub) we would thin some
> > medium gray acrylic, pat lightly on a cloth to
> > remove the excess
> > moisture, then tap the piece in a random pattern.
> > These two steps gave
> > a mottled type of background.  Let dry very well.
> >
> > The marbleizing fun came next.  Get a large bucket,
> > big enough to dunk
> > your piece.  Now make several thinned mixtures of
> > turpentine and oil
> > color in varying shades of blue gray, brown gray,
> > and off white.  Keep
> > the oil mixtures close to each other in tonal value
> > and color. A hint of
> > color change and value change works better than a
> > dramatic color change.
> > So when you can just see that the gray has turned
> > blue or just turned
> > brown is better than 'it's Brown or it's Blue'
> > changes.  A good test for
> > the thinning process with the turp is that it is
> > just right when you can
> > start to read the newspaper writing through a small
> > drop or puddle of
> > color.
> >
> > Fill the bucket with cold water and add about a
> > tablespoon of thinned
> > oil color to it.  The oil color will float on top of
> > the water in a
> > puddle.  Use a spoon handle to swish the oil once
> > then slowly dunk your
> > piece.  You don't want the entire water surface
> > coated ... you want it
> > to look like the filling in a brown sugar cinnamon
> > bun.  As the ceramics
> > went down into the water it picked up the oil
> > mixture in a very random
> > swirling motion.  We would let that 'sort of dry',
> > which usually meant
> > it had stopped dripping but still had some shine to
> > the oil color.
> > While it dries clean your bucket and get ready to
> > dip again with a new
> > color.  You can use as many oil colors as you want,
> > but three usually
> > was a good number.
> >
> > With ceramics there is a hole in the bottom of the
> > piece where the mold
> > opening was, which was great for holding on to
> > during the dipping
> > process.  With a wood carving you might want to add
> > a eye hook to the
> > bottom both for holding and for hanging while it
> > drips.
> >
> > Once you have several swirled oil colors added and
> > the piece has again
> > 'sort of dried' use an old toothbrush and add just a
> > few splatters of
> > whatever oil mixture you have left over.  When you
> > are done you will
> > have a varied background of shades of gray with pale
> > and changing swirls
> > of oil gray tones, then a few spots-splatters of
> > more solid oil color.
> > Plus as you start with the piece entirely coated
> > with acrylics and you
> > are only dipping the work not soaking the work, the
> > wood shouldn't get
> > excessively wet in the process.
> >
> > This is fun to do, but PLEASE practice it first on
> > something you don't
> > mind ruining as it does take a little practice to
> > get the oil to swirl
> > just right.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Susan
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: woodcarver-bounces at six.pairlist.net
> > [mailto:woodcarver-bounces at six.pairlist.net] On
> > Behalf Of maricha
> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:16 AM
> > To: [Woodcarver]
> > Subject: [Woodcarver] marbling a wooden carved
> > plinth
> >
> >
> > hi folks,
> > am experimenting with different effects on bases and
> > plinths for my
> > work... have been able to ebonize quite well, bronze
> > effect quite no
> > problem, but am having difficulty with the
> > marblelizing effect? if any
> > one has any suggestions, your help would be much
> > appreciated./   thanks
> > in advance.
> > cheers
> > maricha
> > http://www.oldjoe.org/MarichOxley/html
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