#citrasolv

[teamfortress2yaoi]

WELCOME2MYPAGE (2021)

Series of 3 10 in x 15 in mixed media transfers

[altese]

Frank Castle/the Punisher, an assortment of media including acrylic, graphite, conté, charcoal pencil. I’m a big Punisher fan and Jon Bernthal definitely did not fit my image of Frank; having watched season 1 of the series though, I admit he’s grown on me. Because—that face. 🙂

[badjonesrising]

Salisbury Artist Book Club Meeting: Citra-Solv & National Geographic Project

It's been one month since my artist book club meet- and we decided to make papers again because it's summer and we do what we want! Since it's summer, a lot of the ladies are quite busy so it's still nice to meet but without a major project to get done. Today we met in the little park by the river and used Citra-Solv to manipulate and decorate pages from National Geographics. I can finally cross this off my To Do List! So exciting!

If you don't know, Citra-Solv is a natural cleaning agent and is quite concentrated. When used against old inks, especially those from the National Geographic magazines, the ink is broken down and therefore can be manipulated with different marking tools, stamps, and stencils. It is not a new technique, and lots of people in the art world use this for collage fodder or papers for paintings and artist books.

Lisa brought the Cirta-Solv, bins, gloves, and magazines. We started the process and found out quite a lot about the technique. Images can be transferred to other pages, even plain paper. It can be added again after drying to pull away ink, to make marks with a stencil. Using a rag, towel, or plastic, different marks are made into wet ink or over dry paper. The pages stay surprisingly flat, so it's easy to decorate your pages. Barbara actually started making "art journal" prompts or "page-starters" just by scrubbing away the colors. I used a layering method of wet, dry, wet, dry and I got a very stippled and textured look. I will use my pages for sketchbook work and some mixed media work, I think. Lisa made a really nice bound book with her pages. Some pages are perfect all on their own, which I might just mount and frame! Now that's something.

Lisa gifted us with some magazines and I am going to definitely going to dive into this more. I filmed some of the process which will be in the next vlog! It's been raining for a week, and it's going to rain for another week. The moon blessed us with a few hours of pure art joy, and I am forever grateful. Plus, I still smell like oranges, so there's that.

[knitsophrenic-blog]

Sometimes when you play it actually works!! #printmaker #play #create #arteverydamnday #printmaking #yarn #knittingprint #speedballink #citrasolv #layers #gotyarn

[altese]

My friend and I created a bunch of Citrasolv altered papers and I've been experimenting with combining them with graphite portraits. It's very satisfying to go through the papers to find the patterns and textures that feel like they fit the drawing, then combine and move the different elements around until the composition feels like it clicks.

[altese]

My friend and I created a bunch of Citrasolv altered papers and I've been experimenting with combining them with graphite portraits. It's very satisfying to go through the papers to find the patterns and textures that feel like they fit the drawing, then combine and move the different elements around until the composition feels like it clicks.

[altese]

My friend and I created a bunch of Citrasolv altered papers and I've been experimenting with combining them with graphite portraits. It's very satisfying to go through the papers to find the patterns and textures that feel like they fit the drawing, then combine and move the different elements around until the composition feels like it clicks.

[jenviz08]

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