I chose my sponge brayer approach* in making some of the prints in today's post. For others, I used a gel plate.
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| L676 Longwood Florals Stencil (9" x 12") Note: All of the other sample prints in today's post were made on wet-strength tissue paper. Above is an exception. It was printed on a sheet of vintage paper. |
*My sponge brayer approach is simple and it saves my wrists and hands; they suffer if I indulge in too much sponge-pouncing to make prints with my masks and stencils. My steps are below:
I squeeze out heavy-body acrylic paint (shown at the top of the photo above); then I load the sponge brayer by rolling it repeatedly over the acrylic paint. Often I add more paint as I go, since the sponge soaks up a lot of it while getting the outer layer loaded.
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| Above: A sponge brayer being loaded with heavy-body acrylic paint. This old photo shows my using a disposable foam plate. Now, I use a tablet of pallet paper. |
After loading the brayer with paint, I place a stencil or mask atop a substrate, secure it with masking tape, and roll the brayer across the top. See below:
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I'm wondering if you get like bubbly paint using the sponge roller. Have you tried a soft rubber brayer? Or better yet, a textured roller! 😁
ReplyDeleteBoth your ideas are very good ones! I liked the bubbly look that I got by using Golden High Flow acrylics on wet-strength tissue since those ultra-thin acrylics naturally bead up on that surface. I use my soft rubber brayers and my textured rollers for other applications, but it is a great idea to try them for this application.
ReplyDeleteIn my October 7 post I gave a description of the way that I got a bubbly look on wet-strength tissue. For that approach I used a hard rubber brayer to spread color over the gel plate -- but in that case, what I used was a thinned mixture of paint . To use a full-strength acrylic paint, I would try using a rubber brayer or a textured roller. But that would result in a "heavy" look, which would be fine for some projects; but not exactly what I was shooting for this time.
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