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Marbling is the centuries-old art form of floating paint on a thickened water bath,
creating designs and unique patterns, using special tools.
You dip your whisk into the paint, and then you tap it on your hand and
you sprinkle it across the surface of the bath.
And that pattern is a traditional pattern called stone.
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And then transferring that image onto paper or fabric, or wood, or
anything that's porous.
I fell in love with marbling, and I fell in love with it hard.
I realized as I had never been exposed to this art form before, and
I couldn't believe it.
It became my sort of passion, my mission to bring marbling to the masses.
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The second you put that piece of paper down and that image is transferred,
that's it, you are never gonna create that again.
So every single time you create something unique, intricate, one of a kind.
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There are a lot of things that affect the pattern or design,
one of those things is the weather.
So as the temperature in the studio starts to warm up and
humidity levels start to drop, that's gonna affect the way my pattern, or
my design, or the way my paints are gonna spread across the surface of the bath.
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Marbling is a game of surface tension.
It's making sure that the bath is thick enough to hold my paints up.
And my paints are thin enough to float across the surface of the bath.
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Its influence, its reflection has been shaped by all the people and
all the countries that have nurtured and
fostered this art form over thousands of years.
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I always encourage my students that when we step into the studio,
we are striving for purpose, not perfection.
And our job as marblers is to simply observe and adjust.
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