Equipment needed :
- Shaving cream - the cheapest you can find!
- A container - a small plastic tray from under meat or similar is fine
- Paints or food colouring
- A stick to stir the paint through the shaving cream
- Something with a straight edge to scrape off the shaving cream
- Lots and lots of paper!
- Lots of places to put the paper to dry
- If you care about the surface you are working on - some plastic to cover it
- If you use food colouring you might want to wear rubber gloves
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Shake the shaving cream and spray into the tray to make a nice pile. |
Dot random splotches of colour on top of the cream |
Lightly stir with your stick so that the paint or colouring makes a pattern on top of the cream |
Add more paint if needed |
Take a piece of your paper and place on top of the coloured section of the cream |
Press down until the paper is in firm contact with the cream |
Pick up and turn over |
With your scraper (I used the back of a knife) scrape the shaving cream off the paper and back into the container |
Your first one might look a little "plain" but keep going! |
As you add more colour your patterns will become more, well, coloured. |
When you want to, after you have enough of one colour, you can add a second colour. Make sure you pick carefully - if you add green to red, for example, you will get ick (depending on the green and the red that you are using). Yellow and red go well together! |
Stir through, being careful not to over mix. |
Pretty! |
If you want to add another colour it might be better to start from scratch. Just wash the shaving cream down the sink and start again |
An example of 4 colour mixing using the food colouring |
Two Art Cards made using marbled paper |
A red crane stamp on a 4 colour marble mix. |
