This document provides instructions for creating marbling art using watercolors on water. Marbling is a traditional Turkish art form that allows one to relax while experiencing the interplay between their own creativity and the unpredictable movements of paint on water. The instructions outline preparing a special water solution with gum tragacanth, then using brushes to apply various colors to the water's surface before gently placing and removing paper to capture the unique patterns. By exploring art through water, students can gain insight into their inner thoughts and expressions. The process results in one-of-a-kind artworks due to the unpredictable nature of watercolor on water.

1. YENİBOSNA PRIMARY SCHOOL
“Art works by using paper”
November, 2010
Istanbul, TURKEY

3. Required Materials :
 * Pure Water
 * A Bucket
 * Gum Tragacanth(Kitre)
 * A Few Paint Brush
 * Marbling Colours
 * Nail
 * Paper

4. 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.

5. 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…

6. 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…

7. 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…

8. 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? 

9. 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…)

10. 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…

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

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

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

14. 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…

15. 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…

16. 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…

18. There is no possibility to make same
marbling production twice!!! For this
reason each production is “ UNIQUE… ”

26. The End 