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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

rice flour resist update




Did some testing yesterday with rice flour resist. Although difficult to control it gives a nice crackle. Difficult in that:
  • harder to see when dry because thin coats dry translucent
  • less resistant to water/wetness
  • needs a heavier coat or maybe 2 thin ones .
Despite that it's a nice addition to anyone's bag of tricks. The sample above is Pebeo setasilk silk paint on a recycled silk habotai shibori that went off the track.

On to other matters. As far as i'm concerned i need some sort of warm-up when i go to the studio, and blogging and checking the mail simply does not do it for me. Actually they are more of a distraction than anything else. You know, there goes the morning and i'm still at the computer doing one thing or another.

i was delighted this morning when i discovered Practically Creative net
i found a wonderful tutorial that can act as a 10 minute warm up exercise to ease you into studio work.
There's another one that i found useful as an unblocking tool
Both tutorials are useful and fun. What more can one ask for.

neki desu

3 comments:

  1. Hi Neki Desu. Thank you for your comments and links to The PCQ. It's always so great to hear about it when someone finds our articles helpful and fun! I know just what you mean about checking all the usual computer haunts. They make us feel as if we're doing something useful and then---poof!---the morning's gone before we know it and with not much to show for it! All the best to you. Thanks again.

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  2. Always good to read other peoples experiments, thanks for that. And thanks also for the links, some good tutorials on there.

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  3. This is yummy, Neki.

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