Marbleize paper using spray paint

I found a wonderful tutorial on marbleize paper on AlisaBurke’s redefine creativity website.

It looked like fun so I thought I would give it a try.

I used a small kitty litter tray I no longer use for my water tray. 

 I could only find three cans of spray paint.

I brought out some red construction paper, a couple pieces of watercolor paper and some white cardstock. Following the directions, I sprayed the paint into the water and swirled it up with a stick

I had gold, black and blue, but the blue did not work and the black was old and gunky.  I decided I liked the gunky paint; it left a strange vainy pattern.

This is the cardstock.

This is the watercolor paper.

  The red construction paper looked good, the rest of the paper needed help. I used watercolor to apply a thin color wash to the other papers.

I liked how my paper turned out, but if I try this technique again I will use a bigger tray for my water and more varieties of new spray-paint. Maybe I can find samples of spray paint that would be perfect.