I decided to re-visit the resist technique, which is nearly as old as dirt, but I hadn't yet done it with these two pencils. The top photo shows a white Caran d'ache, which I used to fill in leaf-shaped openings on my 9" x 12" stencil Ivy Frame. My substrate was a sturdy sheet of white paper.
Below: With the same stencil, on a new sheet of sturdy paper, I used a white grease pencil. These are also called China markers and the brand I happened to buy was Phano. If you click on the photo below, to enlarge it, you can better see that the pigment stick broke. I was bearing down too hard!
After filling in a number of the ivy leaves, I poured some black gesso into a disposable foam plate and got out an old credit card. I dipped the card into the pool of gesso, then scraped the card across my substrate, as shown below.
A close-up of that paper:
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| Above: grease pencil as a resist. |
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| Above: grease pencil as a resist. |
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| Above: grease pencil as a resist. |
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| Above: Caran d'ache as a resist. |
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| Above: Caran d'ache as a resist |
Ivy Frame comes in two sizes, the size used today (9" x 12") --
-- and the 6" x 6" Ivy Frame 6 Stencil, which looks like this --
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