Swirly pictures

[Vickie_and_Daisy]

Ok, so this is a long shot...

When I was a young child, I remember making swirly pictures by putting some sort of paint in a bowl of water, swirlingi about and then laying the paper on the top of the water.

I am pretty sure that the paint will have been oil based (As it stayed on top of the water!) but I have no idea what itwas, where I can get it from, or if you can make something similar with food colouring or regualr paint(?)

I would really love to do one of these pictures with my little girl, so if anyone knows what it uses, I would be very grateful. Many thanks!

Vickie

[TheWinner]

http://preservedgarde...jects/marblepaper.htm

[TheWinner]

and here is one using shaving foam and food colouring.
http://sweetsweetlife...usymarbled-paper.html

[bizzylizzy]

How about these sites. Basically if you put 'how to make marbled paper' into Google, you should find a whole host of advice. Good luck. I might make some of my own paper for Christmas now :-)

http://preservedgarde...jects/marblepaper.htm

http://www.show.me.uk...nd-Design/STO953.html

[saxy_jag]

We used to use either enamel or oil paints - usually both left over from model kits or paint-by-number sets.