I bought some Inkaid at the Knitting and Stitching Show, so, at last, I got round to using it. [We won't mention the bottle of Bubble Jet Set I bought - er - several years ago and have only opened once. That is 'opened'. Not 'used'.]
Now you may have noticed that occasionally I use black in my work. [I wear it too, although I shouldn't, without a tastefully arranged pink or apricot scarf. Unfortunately I don't do tastefully arranged scarves. Chic I ain't.]
So I was keen to try out printing on black paper, as suggested by Ms Grey. The Inkaid bottle suggests two coats but my Yorkshire genes [I tend to keep quiet about those, but I do have some] suggested I try just one. So does Maggie, but as you will see I am very good at skim reading and then working on the basis of what I thought I read ...
I learned that:
- Inkaid is white. It shows on black paper if not covered with print. Of course Maggie points this out but that only registered with me after I had printed.
- The brush marks show.
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It has just occurred to me to wonder whether it would have looked any different if I had printed on white paper. Maybe I'd better experiment some more!
I also tried printing on brown paper [no Inkaid]. I learned from this:
- Print first, scrumple second. Trust me, the other way round is not a good idea. This piece is this size because that is how far it got before the printer threw its hands up in horror and refused to go any further.
- Brown paper is dark. So if you print a dark picture on it it will get darker. Which is what happened to this guy. So I made it worse by ironing shreds of black FuseFX over him.
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A scan in inverted colours looks quite spooky.
I have also returned to Dunnwewold at al's 'Finding your Own Visual Lan
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Looking at the book again prompted me to try some of the ideas with pots, starting with chopping them up. I do like the starkness of black and white.
2 comments:
Your blog did make me chuckle - I have experimental days like this too - where you skim read instructions and then kick yourself afterwards!! I quite like the dark man. BY the way the grand daughter is so cute!
I like all your samples...all interesting. Can you tell me please what size needle or type you use to sew on paper? I am having trouble with my SULKY thread beading up in the needle and breaking off while I sew on paper. Any advice would be very welcomed. Thanks.
And the baby is absolutely precious.
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