1. Start by painting your surface  with black paint.

2. Wet the sponge with water, squeezing the excess, dip the sponge in a light green paint and sponge over the surface lightly leaving some empty spaces.

3.clean the sponge then dip and sponge the darker green in the empty spaces trying to blend the two colors together.

4. Use a smaller sponge to add a little of the color white between the two greens.

5.Using a very thin paint brush and thinned down white paint add some light wiggly lines here and there and smudge them with a dry brush.

Click on the thumbnail to see how a marbleized effect changed the look of regular unfinished wooden furniture

See also (How to mosaic)

             (How to decoupage)

             (How to stencil)