Innovative Idea with India Ink Resist as Focal for Upcycled Packaging Journal Cover
Channel: Two Old Crows Mixed Media
Date: 2024-03-10

Innovative Idea with India Ink Resist as Focal for Upcycled Packaging Journal Cover turns your everyday packaging into an arty journal cover. Utilizing tempera paint as a resist for India Ink is an easy method that looks complicated.  Tempera Paint resists the India Ink and exposes your hand illustration drawn in with a pencil.  The pencil absorbs the ink!  

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
02:12 India Ink Resist
08:14 Gel Printing the Cover
21:00 Inside Cover Completion
21:25 Binding the Journal

Check out this artist (where I discovered this technique)   https://youtu.be/VrQszem0X10?si=RRcHF9b2V-kV0GoE
Jane created this video two years ago and you may not have run accross it but she does a very good job at explaining the technique!  

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