Calligraphy and book arts in the studio of Beth Lee, Bozeman, MT
I’m having a good time with a large project. Can you tell that I’m ready for winter to be done?
A bit of the unfinished piece is shown underneath my 5×7 record of palette and paint, which also has some trial techniques. For instance, the two raw ochre rectangles at the bottom of the sheet compare the results of penciled lines with sgraffito lines in the watercolor wash.
Whew! The summer semester is over, and I’m ready for a little break from deadlines. I finished the final project (this book) only by staying up all night on Tuesday; it was due at 9:30am on Wednesday. I’ll take some photos and post them later, but for now I want to memorialize the links I found for image transfer techniques. Some of them I tried, some of them didn’t work, and some of them did sort of, some of them I didn’t have time or materials to try, and so on. Sometime I want to go through each of these techniques in more detail. For now, here are the links, before I lose them:
The image above is from the book I made, but this image transfer technique is not listed anywhere in these links above. It’s a color foil application called ColorTag, made by Letraset. The foil is formulated to stick to photocopy toner by heat. I doubt that Letraset is still making these, but I loved the process 20 years ago, and still have the little square iron that is about the size of 3 iPods stacked together, and I have some of the foil too.
Thanks to Boing-Boing for publicizing this excellent set of instructions by Liralen Li. These instructions combine clear photos with admirably precise step-by-step directions which include discussions of alternative methods along the way.