Marbling agents

[philman]

Nice work Dan. That is a great innovation. I'll have to experiment with this myself.

 

[basketcase15]

this is SOOOO SICK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[NoThingness]

I'm loving the innovation here. Slack on, and praise BOB!

 

[Dan Howard]

Results from last night

disappointed but cautiously optimistic. Sure wish I had some star plastic laying around, maybe I can find time to get to DGW today.

KingWillie that's a good link, their Advanced Marbling Base (M112) is Methocel. Here is another good one, examples of what people are doing on fabric http://www.dharmatrading.com/cgi-bin/featuredartists.cgi?mode=search&category=Marbling

 

[Dan Howard]

and one more link, an excellent tutorial on marbling fabric http://www.theindigoonion.com/swirldying1.htm

 

[Dan Howard]

Did some scroungin' and came up with a few more discs this morning before work.

I'm much happier with these, something about that Discraft Z plastic doesn't seem to work to well with this method. So there seems to me to be some potential here, I'm looking forward to seeing what people will come up with!

 

[mashnut]

That blue nuke is awesome!

 

[phishbrained]

Wow! Nice work. I'll have to try this out for myself. Keep it up. I really like the black over the marble.

 

[WillGrrr]

I would think Elite X and Star would be the best canvases.
Used to this for marbleizing paper. Works beautifully on the throwing plastic, though!

 

[Dan Howard]

Last one here, only cause its a little funny.

Like I said, i'm scrounging for plastic right now and found this one in the yard. First putter I paid for but quit using it after a short while, something about putting with that flx plastic didn't work for me. It appears that some significant exposure time to the sun will really alter the way the plastic dyes, only the part under the removed stamp took the dye as it normally would. Kind of a cool effect though.

Anyway, thanks for all the love, its been a fun project to work thru. Hopefully I'll have something worthy of the Dye a Day page soon!

 

[BennettUA]

All of these are worthy of the Dye a Day page! Great stuff bro, I might just try the shaving cream out tonight if I can find the time!

What are you using in your dye mix? Is it just liquid dye, or do you use any alcohol, acetone, etc?

 

[Dan Howard]

Thx Bennett I'm using liquid dye only, mixed as recommended here somewhere, 1 pak of dye to 32oz water.

 

[MOON]

Dan, do you think the shaving cream would hold up if you were to mix in the dye? Just wondering if different colors of shaving cream would do the same thing.

 

[LoPan12]

back on page three, are all those with the methocel or shaving cream?

 

[Dan Howard]

Moon, that's how I'm doing it now, keeps the dye from running all over.
This tutorial http://www.theindigoonion.com/swirldying1.htm shows the consistencies to shoot for in the dyes but I am liking a thicker base than what they show.

LoPan only the very first one (on page 1) was done with Methocel the rest were done with shaving cream.

 

[LoPan12]

That's pretty sweet man.

 

[Dan Howard]

Thx LoPan One comment after tonite's adventure is that bubbles are gonna be a b*tch. Too thick and you get lots of bubbles, too thin and the design washes away when you set the disc

 

[Jazzbones]

Love it Dan. I look forward to seeing more. I know how it goes when you get through all your die-able plastic, but keep it up as best you can!

 

[Dan Howard]

I did sneak into KC yesterday and picked up a couple discs, unfortunately I'm working all weekend. I got the disc dyeing blues!

I'm a gonna raise a fuss
I'm a gonna raise a holler

about a workin' all winter
just to try to earn a dollar

ev'ry time I get my dyes out

and get them on the plate

my Boss says
No dice, Son,you gotta work late

 

[yearofrolling]

You guys are great innovators! Bravo!