Creator
Peggy Skycraft (b. 1941) and Jack Townes (b. 1953)
Title
Portable marbling kit.
Date
undated
Description
This kit, which accommodates 8½” × 11” paper, was used by Peggy Skycraft to demonstrate teaching basics, including gel viscosity, paint behavior, and marbling patterns at workshops and trade shows. The small-scale combs and drawing tools were made to fit using dressmaker’s and hair curler pins, commercial plastics, chopsticks, and bio probes. The kit also contains tubes of gouache, powdered carrageenan, alum, diluted ox gall, and dropper bottles.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Peggy Skycraft and Jack Townes