These bright colors are fun to work with. I often work with inks straight out of the tube with out mixing to get just the right color.
- colors can get dull pretty quick
- primary colors are more intense
- layering the primary colors keeps the colors crisper
Hand Pulled Print
- 3 colors of speed ball ink, magenta, yellow and blue
- 2 masking stencils
- inked just sections of the plate with certain colors
Pretty soon I am going to take a look at my wall of index cards and identify all the benefits that I have gained by doing the ICAD challenge. I have to make more space on the wall for the ever growing collection of index card hand pulled original print.
I joined the 21 Secrets – art journalling group a couple of days ago. It is a really deal. For the Christmas in July price of $49.00, I get 21, projects, lessons, gifts, tutorials from 21 different teacher. Tammy from Daisy Yellow is offering a watercolor class.
I think I may have found a use for those piles of less than lovely gelatin plate prints that I have filling up my studio.
I followed Rae Missigman‘s instructions to make a coptic stitch book from recycled stuff in her GO GREEN class. I have made a few coptic stitch books but always suffered and struggled with them. Well her video was so perfect. No more fear of the coptic stitch for me. I kinda did my own thing with the cover of the book and skipped a lot of the steps that she offered, but I am really happy with it.
I used –
- an old Nancy Drew book
- gelatin prints for the pages
- kite string that I waxed
- dictionary pages on the spine of the signatures
- fabric tape and gesso to make the old book a little more sturdy
I will be sharing my creations with you as I go along! Happy Printing!