More marbling

Day 3 of the course at City Lit started with a bit of inspiration - one of the students works with leather and had tried marbling it -

First, testing the spread of each of the three inks so as to use the one with the least flow (smallest spread) first -

  Demos of different techniques for different patterns throughout the day...

French curl (aka snail and nightingale's nest) -

 Using combs - start with a feather pattern...

 ... then hold the comb steady as you draw it -

 Spanish moire is best on thinner paper - the idea is that you wobble the paper as you lay it down -

 Our set-up (working in threes) -

Lots of papers hanging to dry -

 ... and being dried with a hairdryer, so that we could take them home with us -

This, made by Royston and shown as a detail, is the one I would have liked to take home -

 Instead I have these, A3 sized -

 ... and some skimming strips ... little landscapes ...

... surprising and inspirational -