Marble Dust Mountain

My Chinese brushpainting instructor gets irregular leftover chunks of marble from contractors who do marble countertops for fancy kitchens. She grinds them up with a mortar and pestle. She mixes the opaque shimmering marble dust with translucent vegetable pigments to allow light colours to be overlaid on dark colours without the dark colours completely bleeding through. The effect is almost luminous, like clouds of lighter foliage on tree:



Las week in class we experimented with marble dust to create texture, not colour.
( to make a mountain out of marble dust )