Proof colors artstudio pro5/3/2023 What’s your prediction? Do you think I’ll get enough pressure from the rolling pin to push the paper into the recessed line work to pick up the ink? Let me know your predictions in the comments. I have no idea if it’ll work, but I’m creating the plate this afternoon, and I’m excited and hopeful that it’ll work. I want to test another paper carton intaglio print (this time from a box of Kleenex), made without a press, using a rolling pin instead. In the next post, I’m working on something similar. In the last post, I demo’d an intaglio print of a cat from a carton of frozen fruit pops ( see that here). I like searching through the house for items that lend themselves to creative work, even if they were meant for uses elsewhere. The print is listed over here in my Etsy Shop. The finished monotype print – Ten Bearss. Are you a visual thinker? If you identify visualization as a required trait of a creative mind, read this short essay by Austin Kleon about aphantasia – when creative people cannot visualize anything at all.If you sell your work on Etsy, this very helpful podcast, made by Etsy, reviews best practices for titles, keywords, tags, categories, and listing details, based on Etsy’s own search algorithm function.Here’s a post from my archives – what is the difference between colored pencils and watercolor pencils? in case you need a refresher.If you’re feeling a bit of creative stuckness, here’s a handmade zine with a few ideas to get yourself unstuck, by Zak Foster. ( Check them out on Amazon over here.) Resources for the Artist In You Still, they are a good, inexpensive colored pencil set, and I’ll continue to use them. The Amazon Premium Colored Pencils did a good job of adhering to the Akua ink in my print, but the coverage wasn’t *quite* as opaque as Prismacolor. If the colored pencil is too waxy and slick, or the pigment load is very light and transparent, the dry pencil media won’t adhere and cover your ink. The key characteristic for using colored pencils on monotype prints is that the pigment in the pencil lead has to stick to – and cover – the printmaking ink.
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