FOLLOWING ON FROM MIXING YOUR FLOATER CORRECTLY...
To avoid paint sinking in the floater and best printing results:
1st Dilute paint with soft water, one part paint : one part soft water.
(I use a one part pipette of soft water : one part pipette of paint from the concentrated liquid pots of paint provided in your kit) I do this for all the colours in my Marble Art Kit (red, yellow, blue, black, white and new violet) into the empty containers with lids. After my primaries are mixed, I can now mix my secondary colours with my mixed primary colours, into other empty containers.
Diluted yellow + diluted red = orange; Diluted blue + diluted yellow = green; Diluted red + diluted blue = purple etc. up to 800 variations.
Keep the paints mixed:
Remember to always remix the mixed diluted paint and water, with the pipette in each container, before drawing up the paint into the pipette, to drop onto your floater liquid. (Reason being the mixed paint can separate from the water, it was initially mixed with at the start, and sinks to the bottom part of the container, hence drawing up the heavy part of the paint.
If you forget to re-mix and it does sink, one solution is to immediately suck up the submerged paint with your pipette, and discard it.
If you don’t, this can create a dark clouded floater, which may still be used. We only use the surface of the floater liquid, although a clean liquid is always better to aim for, for best results.
Use one drop at a time, or use small drops:
1) By touching the floater liquid with the pipette (loaded with paint) only allows a small amount of paint to disperse onto the floater liquid.
2) If you are right handed, one can tap your left hand forefinger with the lower end of the pipette, creating part drops that flick onto the floater liquid in your tray.
3) Try not to overload the liquid with too much paint, as it will break the surface tension of the floater liquid and submerge.
Tip. When the paint in the tray is not moving anymore it’s time to stop dropping paint. See instructions in kit for how many drops to use.
Don’t squirt the paint out of the pipette into the floater, it sinks due to the force of paint. Try be less heavy handed.
KEY: SOFT WATER = DEIONISED WATER (BATTERY TOP UP WATER, OR WATER USED IN IRONS)
To avoid paint sinking in the floater and best printing results:
1st Dilute paint with soft water, one part paint : one part soft water.
(I use a one part pipette of soft water : one part pipette of paint from the concentrated liquid pots of paint provided in your kit) I do this for all the colours in my Marble Art Kit (red, yellow, blue, black, white and new violet) into the empty containers with lids. After my primaries are mixed, I can now mix my secondary colours with my mixed primary colours, into other empty containers.
Diluted yellow + diluted red = orange; Diluted blue + diluted yellow = green; Diluted red + diluted blue = purple etc. up to 800 variations.
Keep the paints mixed:
Remember to always remix the mixed diluted paint and water, with the pipette in each container, before drawing up the paint into the pipette, to drop onto your floater liquid. (Reason being the mixed paint can separate from the water, it was initially mixed with at the start, and sinks to the bottom part of the container, hence drawing up the heavy part of the paint.
If you forget to re-mix and it does sink, one solution is to immediately suck up the submerged paint with your pipette, and discard it.
If you don’t, this can create a dark clouded floater, which may still be used. We only use the surface of the floater liquid, although a clean liquid is always better to aim for, for best results.
Use one drop at a time, or use small drops:
1) By touching the floater liquid with the pipette (loaded with paint) only allows a small amount of paint to disperse onto the floater liquid.
2) If you are right handed, one can tap your left hand forefinger with the lower end of the pipette, creating part drops that flick onto the floater liquid in your tray.
3) Try not to overload the liquid with too much paint, as it will break the surface tension of the floater liquid and submerge.
Tip. When the paint in the tray is not moving anymore it’s time to stop dropping paint. See instructions in kit for how many drops to use.
Don’t squirt the paint out of the pipette into the floater, it sinks due to the force of paint. Try be less heavy handed.
KEY: SOFT WATER = DEIONISED WATER (BATTERY TOP UP WATER, OR WATER USED IN IRONS)
