I hate when I spent a lot of time working on something and it gets ruined. I painted several tiles recently with alcohol inks. Due to the high humidity during our heat wave it took extra long for the ink to dry. I let them dry as long as I usually do but when I turned them over to apply tape to the back of each tile some of the ink stuck to my table. So I put those tiles off to the side to redo the affected areas. I mixed the Envirotex to coat the ones that weren't affected and poured it. They have been "drying" for several days. I just left them alone but today I looked at them and noticed the black marker seems to have seeped into the coating from the sides of the tiles. It didn't happen everywhere on the tile, but shows slightly. Grrrr!!!! I have another batch waiting for me to pour the coating and I will have to make sure they are set to dry somewhere where the AC is on while they are drying.
Here are the sad results. I had twin seahorses and a starfish. I also did a turtle but that one the marker seeped into a lot of it!
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| This one was the best of them but I can notice it slightly along the edges. |
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| This one it shows on the top left and right side. |
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| This one it seeped in a lot along the bottom. I just wanted you to see these so that you know some projects just don't work out the way you plan. Things happen!!! I also tried something I haven't done in a long time which is carving a stamp. One of my art groups has a week-long paintout called "Paint the Great South Bay" or PGSB2018. I've taken part several times. The canvases or papers the artists use are stamped each year with a specially designed stamp to prove that the artwork was completed during that week. This year they are having a contest for a design to be used. I carved several but each one wasn't quite what I wanted. This was the best of the ones I did so it is what I submitted. It needed to be a 2 inch square.  |
That's too bad about the tiles -- how frustrating! I used to really enjoy making rubberstamps... I remember it was hard to think "backwards" (the negative vs. positive space) when designing them!
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The negative and positive shapes were easy for me. It was the backwards lettering and cutting out the letters that was hard. lol
DeleteUnderstandably disappointing and frustrating but weather help from mother nature is on the way! Great low humidity weather this weekend. Cool rubber stamp.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mel. Hopefully the improvement in the weather will help.
DeleteThe tiles are great. The seepage gives them a bit of an “aged” or antique look. I don’t mind it at all. The stamp is fun, hope they use it!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jo, for your vote of confidence. After looking at them for a while I sort of decided they don't look that bad...except for the turtle who I didn't post.
DeleteWhat a shame that the tiles didn't work the way you planned. They look pretty good to my eye, especially the seahorses. I really like your stamp - a very hard subject with all the letters and numbers - great job Joan.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Val. The lettering was harder than I expected. lol I did three of this design and on one I really lost a lot of the lettering.
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