Last week I was marbling paper again and I was off to a slow start. Nothing was working right. Colors were streaking, paints were spotting, worms all over the place – just a mess. It took me a day to realize that I had mixed the alum incorrectly and another half day to get everything else into balance.
I pulled some good sheets, but nothing thrilling and a lot that were “book only” – not good enough to sell as full sheets. 
As usual, on day three, I switched to a smaller tray to work on card stock for note cards and vintage papers. I realized that I was getting a very powerful black in the small tray, much stronger than I’d ever had before. I ran with it and pulled the papers shown below. All of these were done on light colored paper – cream or white.
Enjoy!
The colors become so vivid when contrasted with the black. Wish I had some large papers like these.
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