Reprint -- Thanksgiving Turkey!

Today's focus starts with a gizmo that make stencil- and mask-printing go faster than a New York minute!

My gizmo was sold by Art-C but I can't locate any currently available battery-powered brushes marketed by that company. 

However, battery-operated cosmetic brushes can work just as well, despite offering fewer choices in brush heads with bristles.  One is here and a similar one is here.  (Others are available but I picked two of the lowest in price.)

Mine is still running on its original batteries installed years ago!

There's no need to apply a lot of pressure when making prints; the spinning bristles do all the work.

Above:  the orange-tinted brush head is a sponge.  The other two brush heads have soft bristles.  For me, both heads work equally well.

Above:  I made the top left print with my new 6" x 6" mask Chandelier s971, and the lower right print with my new 6" x 6" mask Diatom s972.

It's normally my practice to use heavy body acrylic paint with masks and stencils, since heavy body paints are helpful in reducing "run-under" areas of excess paint that detract from a sharp print with crisp lines.   

But because I chose this battery-powered gizmo today, it was easy to use regular liquid acrylic paint.  The motion of the gizmo's rotating brush heads provides coverage without allowing any excess paint to "run under" the solid areas of a mask or stencil.

Now for the Thanksgiving turkey!

The black-and-white prints shown above have met my scissors.  The cuts are shown below in red:

 

I made a very quick job of coloring white areas using color pencils.  Then came the gluestick.  The result --

Tomorrow's post spotlights a different approach to using my new 6" x 6" mask Chandelier s971 and 6" x 6" mask Diatom s972.

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