Make Marble Dust Paint Gesso

• 1). Pour one and one-half tablespoons of dry rabbit skin glue and one cup of water into a crock pot. Put the lid on and let the solution soak for two hours with the power to the crock pot turned off.
  
  
• 2). Turn the power on to the crock pot and melt the glue, but do not allow it to boil. Stir thoroughly.
  
  
• 3). Put on a respirator or a dust mask. Pour one cup titanium white pigment and one cup of marble dust into a separate container. Mix the solution well.
  
  
• 4). Pour the hot glue into the pigment and marble dust mixture and stir. Use a bristle gesso brush or palette knife to apply the solution to your painting surface.
  
  

Mix Marble Dust into Paint

• 1). Put on your respirator. Empty a small amount of marble dust onto your palette with a palette knife or spoon to keep the dust from flying everywhere.
  
  
• 2). Mix your oil painting medium, such as linseed oil, with the marble dust. Continue to add medium until the dust had reached the level of consistency desired. A mix with less medium makes a thick paste perfect for impasto technique and a mix with less dust and more medium makes the dust opaque, but still viscous.
  
  
• 3). Mix an acrylic paint medium with the dust instead of oil if using acrylic paints.
  
  
• 4). Mix your paint color of choice into the dust/medium mixture. Dip your paint brush into the mix and apply it to your surface.