nature book postcard
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ellerAnother postcard for someone on postcrossing - this time, it's a combination of drawing, painting, and papercut. It has transparent windows! The book page, inkwell, ink blob and large leaves are see-through.
Materials:
Watercolor paper: Florence watercolor paper, smooth, white, 200gsm. This was a bit of a compromise: it's the thinnest possible paper for watercoloring, but the thickest possible paper for reasonable papercutting. (Still: not much detail possible.)
Transparent paper: Folia, 115 gsm (I chose the thicker variety, for obvious reasons), light green.
Fineliners: Staedtler, different sizes.
Acrylic pens: FlySea, white and black.
Watercolors: various brands, no idea which was what. It was not my watercolor box. I'm not at home and didn't grab the box in my bag when there was a perfectly good one open on the table.
Knife: snap-off utility knife. Cheap but good. XD Seriously, it performed really well (as in: non-wobbly, good angle, and ergonomic in my hand) but it's a no-name thingy, no manufacturer printed on or anything.
Varnish: LUKAS spray varnish, satin gloss. (Added to protect the watercolors before gluing everything together.)
Spray glue: Ghiant Hightac, an ancient can. Oh well, it came out a bit yellowed and blotchy but it still worked... Somehow.
More pictures (of the papercutting and of what the card looks like with backlighting) behind the cut.
So, uh, that's the back of the card. You can see the technique I used: I cut the windows into the painting, then glued the transparent paper behind that, then (to make it more tidy as well as more sturdy) added another sheet of the same watercolor paper with slightly larger window cutouts behind that. Easy enough, I just had to make sure absolutely no spray glue got on the visible parts of the transparent paper. (That would have ruined it.)
And...
It's glooowiiiiing! :D
I'll definitely make more cards with this technique. It's so much fun! :D
Materials:
Watercolor paper: Florence watercolor paper, smooth, white, 200gsm. This was a bit of a compromise: it's the thinnest possible paper for watercoloring, but the thickest possible paper for reasonable papercutting. (Still: not much detail possible.)
Transparent paper: Folia, 115 gsm (I chose the thicker variety, for obvious reasons), light green.
Fineliners: Staedtler, different sizes.
Acrylic pens: FlySea, white and black.
Watercolors: various brands, no idea which was what. It was not my watercolor box. I'm not at home and didn't grab the box in my bag when there was a perfectly good one open on the table.
Knife: snap-off utility knife. Cheap but good. XD Seriously, it performed really well (as in: non-wobbly, good angle, and ergonomic in my hand) but it's a no-name thingy, no manufacturer printed on or anything.
Varnish: LUKAS spray varnish, satin gloss. (Added to protect the watercolors before gluing everything together.)
Spray glue: Ghiant Hightac, an ancient can. Oh well, it came out a bit yellowed and blotchy but it still worked... Somehow.
More pictures (of the papercutting and of what the card looks like with backlighting) behind the cut.
So, uh, that's the back of the card. You can see the technique I used: I cut the windows into the painting, then glued the transparent paper behind that, then (to make it more tidy as well as more sturdy) added another sheet of the same watercolor paper with slightly larger window cutouts behind that. Easy enough, I just had to make sure absolutely no spray glue got on the visible parts of the transparent paper. (That would have ruined it.)
And...
It's glooowiiiiing! :D
I'll definitely make more cards with this technique. It's so much fun! :D
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