Tools for dispersing paint for marbling.

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Title

Tools for dispersing paint for marbling.

Coverage

Peggy Skycraft (b. 1941) and Jack Townes (b. 1953)

Date

undated

Description

The first step in making a marbled pattern is dispersing paint onto the marbling bath. These tools were used by Skycraft and Townes to disperse paint spray on various size tanks. The fan brush and shortened sword hilt with wooden dowel were sufficient for tapping colors onto a small tank, but their 10-foot tank required a swifter method. For this they devised variants of this hairbrush crank tool with plastic bottle reservoir.

Source

Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Peggy Skycraft and Jack Townes