Origin: Japan - Made in Japan
Trademark: Nicker
Surely you have seen at least once the magical watermark drawing technique, right? It is a water painting technique where drops of color are sequentially dripped onto a special solvent mixture. After a process of shaping on water, the artist will dip the painting or object to be painted in water, the colored streaks will stick to the object and become waterproof after drying.
The MARBLING DECO watermark set from NICKER (Japan) has everything you need to create watermarks from solvents and colors. Watermark colors can be drawn on all materials, from paper to wood, glass, leather, fabric, etc.
User manual:
🔸Mix Marbling Solution and water at a 1:1 ratio if using paper, wood, stone or fabric to press color.
🔸 Mix Marbling Solution and water at a ratio of 2:1 if using plastic materials to press color.
🔸Shake the color well and then gradually drop it into the mixed mixture. You can shape it on the water as you like.
🔸 Then dip the material you want to draw into the water for 5 seconds so that the color streaks stick to it, pick it up and wait for it to dry.
Marbling Deco Compact Set
Nicker is a Tokyo-based painting manufacturer with nearly 80 years of history, established in 1945. Its wide range of watercolors, poster colors, acrylic gouache colors have received many compliments. from artists - even from Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy (considered by many to be the Father of Manga)!
Nicker colors are often used to paint backgrounds in Japanese animation, having been an integral part of Ghibli's film production and background painting processes since at least 1985, when the studio first opened. !