Oh, I remember blotting paper! I went to school when there were ink wells in the upper right corner of the desks. The "good" kids got to help mix the ink and fill the wells. We used fountain pens back then and learned the Palmer method of hand writing. The nuns would whack the back of your hands if you didn't make the swirls correctly!
Alice "Do what you like, like what you do"
557 : CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts :And your next question will likely be:
and you are HOW Old?
Yuppers, I can just hear it now...
Butterfly (just about the time we're answering questions cause we remember the answers--she's gonna pop a good un on us)
I've got that. Can't remember the last time I used it but I know where it is
Butterfly (Same with the carbon paper--that we used this summer)
I do! I once worked for the Loss/Prevention Department in an insurance company. The loss reports required 8 copies! That meant 8 pieces of paper and 7 pieces of carbon paper. Trying to keep all that lined up so that the last page had the typing in the correct spot was torture! I hated that job! People that never worked before the days of copy machines have no idea what an ordeal it was to get several copies of something!
Donna in SW Idaho
Ah, well then..
Carbon - bad graphite - good
Graphite paper is not perfect, and I won't sat it never smudges, but it is miles ahead of carbon for transfering sketches to canvas, panel, or paper. The lines are not as dark, but still very visible. The smudges are not as dark either, nor as numerous. However for all I have seen it touted for the job, IMHO it stinks for transfering designs to fabric. Thus I also have dressmakers carbon. DH does a fair bit of small metal working, jewelry, talismans, and what have you, so we have some carbon made just especially for transfering onto metal and glass. We have some hectographers paper around here somewhere too. I don't think I have ever used it as carbon paper per se, but it makes excellent temporary tatoos (transfer with alcohol, remove with same), and very very REALLY permanent iron on patterns.
Cats are one of the hundred and one reasons I switched from oil to acrylic. My oil paint of choice is Blockx (very heavily pigmented), I tend to glazing techniques and use poppy oil by preference. You can imagine what one overly adventurous kitty could do if they get to a palette and canvas full of heavily pigmented paint and the the medium that takes the longest time to dry of almost any. It is a good thing I never really liked that couch anyway.
NightMist
Thank you so much for beginning my day with a real belly laugh. My sister would love to have a painting of the home where we grew up. I'm hoping for some hours to paint one for her - First, I'll have to do a dig to find some photos of it. Maybe I can do that. Polly
"NightMist" > Cats are one of the hundred and one reasons I switched from oil to
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