lost in the stacks #7

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Comment by ken coleman on June 21, 2012 at 2:50am

Diane,

I glue the tissue to a regular piece of printer paper. About an inch or so down from the top using one of those glue roller things with non-permananet glue. This way, the printer is tricked into thinking it's getting regular paper. Using the glue a couple of places along the sides is a good idea. Usually the tissue stays in place although once-in-a-while it gets wrinkled as it goes through the printer. I do the same thing with the heavier watercolor paper which jams if I don't trick the printer into thinking it's getting regular paper. Then it's just a matter of adjusting the image on the page so that it prints only on the tissue and not at the top where it's only regular paper.

Comment by Diane Dellicarpini on June 20, 2012 at 9:13pm

I like the darkness on 8, i've tried printing on tissue with the printer and it always gets stuck. Did you use a priter with the tissue paper?

Comment by ken coleman on June 20, 2012 at 4:50pm

Sure. First, I did the watercolor. Then I scanned it before anything else was done to it. Next it's printed on watercolor paper.  That print was cut up and glued onto the original. I guess I could just do a larger painting to begin with and trim off portions to glue back on. But scanning and printing gives me other options like with this piece I added the white lines via the computer (although at the time I did not know how I was going to use them). In other cases, I print on tissue. It's a different effect because of the translucency of the tissue. Tissue, printed with the image of it's "parent" watercolor, is used at the bottom of Lost In The Stacks #2 and #8. On #8 it turned out pretty dark.

Does this make sense?

Comment by Diane Dellicarpini on June 20, 2012 at 3:29pm

Ken, scanned and printed can you explain.