Paper Marbling Workshop RSVP Website: Tray Counts, a Sheet Cap, and a Pigment Line

A paper marbling workshop breaks when you mixed size for six trays and ten people walk in, or when someone expects a gold ink and a stack of paper you did not prepare. Trays, the sheets each person will pull, and the pigments in the cups are set before the size is poured. The host does not mix another tray because a neighbor decided to come after the paper was treated. A maybe does not hold a tray.

You can create a paper marbling workshop RSVP that fills the trays you will actually pour, records who will pull sheets, and stops when those trays are full.

Ask what the workshop will actually pull

This workshop is a tray of thickened size with pigment dropped on the surface and a sheet laid down on it. It is not a press, not a carved block with ink rolled onto it, and not a print left in the sun. Walk the room before you send the link. Write down how many trays fit once newspaper is on the tables, how long the size needs to rest, and how many alum-treated sheets you can prepare. If you can run six trays across two hours, and each person pulls four sheets, that is the plan. A seventh person does not lean over a tray for a minute.

A tray is one person for their turn. If you schedule two turns on the same tray, say so on the page, and the cap is the number of turns, not a crowd around one pan. Ask whether a friend who will not pull paper can stand in the room. People who are not pulling stay off the table. They do not drop pigment into someone else's size.

Ask the last time you can change the paper count. If you treat the sheets with alum the night before and they need to dry flat, that night is your lock for the stack. Write the finish: four sheets, about 9 by 12 inches, hung to dry. Not a fifth sheet if size is left in the tray. Leftover size is tired, and it is not a plan.

Set a capacity limit on people who will pull sheets, not on everyone who was invited. When the last tray or the last turn is taken, the form should say the workshop is full. If the stacks are already clipped with names, a late friend is not in this batch.

The pigment line is a list, not a paint box

Name the colors and stop there. A clear line is three pigments: red iron oxide, ultramarine, and lamp black, dropped from small cups with the dispersant you already bought. Each person confirms they will use that set. Gold mica, neon pigment, and a comb pattern you will not demonstrate are a different workshop. You did not buy them.

Put the paper on the form as the paper you treated, four sheets each, in the size you cut. People who want to bring their own stock should not take a tray unless you have tested that paper in this size. You need a yes to these sheets and these three pigments before you pour. Clothes that can be stained, or an apron, are part of that yes.

Reach, drying, and a time to start

Pulling a sheet means standing at a tray, laying paper down, and lifting it off without dragging a corner. Ask for accessibility needs you can actually meet. If one table can be set at chair height, offer that seat on the form and cap it at the number of trays you can lower. If every tray is on a counter and you cannot change that, say so, so someone who cannot stand for the turn can decline. Do not promise a helper who will pull the sheet for them unless that helper is a real person you have already counted, and that helper is not a second student using the same paper stack.

Collect an arrival window that matches the size, not a vague afternoon. The window might be 1:40 to 1:50 for a 2:00 start. Write what happens if someone is later than that. The turn goes to a standby who is already in the room, or it stays empty. Say whether dry sheets go home that day or the next, so a wet stack does not leave in a car.

The moment the sheet list is locked

The meeting point is the room you named, not the arts building in general. Put your phone on the page. Tie the deadline to the night you alum the paper. After that, a late yes is a call about a cancellation, not a promise of another tray. If you want names ready when someone drops, keep them as standbys and tell them they do not have sheets until you write back. A maybe does not hold a tray.

Export the list the morning you lock it: attending or not, tray or turn, a yes to the pigment line, access note, arrival window, and phone. A marbling workshop is finished when every tray has a named person, the stack matches paper you already treated, and a late car knows whether they are pulling a sheet or going home.