
Pastel is stil fun.
Not finished but the base is here.

Not finished but the base is here.
I tried some cards with gelliprinting, random stencils and cheap paint. There are loads of things to think about.
I love when you don't have a plan, but it all comes together at the end!
I think I put too much pressure on the tape while applying it. The paper started to tear while pulling it. I stopped and started pulling at the other end. But how can I prevent this in the future? Just not pushing on it too much while applying I guess? And how can I fix it? Yeah I could start over, I know. But I want to learn from this.
There is this huge plant in our office that just asks to stand under it. And my skills aren't that good to make it nice. Could someone put this nice woman in a de fairytale wonderland kinda place?
The color wheel is still a mystery for me. I have no idea how people in general do it. I have a cheap set of small tubes pastel paint and for some reason they all work together. And I used a few blodge and streak stamps afterward, going outside the tape borders.
I love making my own cards and trying stuff out. Top 2 are pastels. Rest is acrylic paint pulled over paper.
Pigma Micron brush on A6 coldpressed 300 gsm watercolor paper.
My eyes....
I've been making my own linocut cards for Postcrossing and people told me to start selling them. I thought Etsy was a good choice, I've been reading up about everything, started creating stock so I could hit the ground running.
Yesterday was the day. I clicked that sell on Etsy button and started my journey. But after entering my name etc I arrived at the "let's check your id" station. It took several attempts to get the photos of my id right with the first attempt. Then I got a mail that said my name didn't match my idea. Stupid, I used only the first letters, not all 3 names. Fixed that and tried again. Same response.
Maybe it's because I was wearing my glasses while on my id I didn't? Did I loose to much weight and they thought my Id didn't match? I tried a third time and then I got the message I wasn't able to sell on Etsy because of fraude prevention. There was a button that's said "ask for manual confirmation". Clicked it this morning and I waited till just a few minutes ago. I got the same response "you are not able to sell because of fraude prevention" and I still don't have any clue what I did wrong.
I just don't know. I took the photos in bright daylight, I changed the name to what was on my id. All the id scans were on par after trying numerous times. I tried responding to one of the mails but got the same automated response.
What can I do?
Everything was going well. Until that last piece of tape pulled the paper with it (down the center)
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Acrilic marker over acrilic ink on coldpressed 300gsm watercolor paper.
This just for fun. If some kind of payment is required, let me know.
A combination of water painting with bubbles and painting with linocut ink.
I'm still having trouble getting paint on, covering all the bigger area's. And I'm getting the idea that during using the press, ink gets pulled of again? The right figure shows white spots.
It is difficult to get the shadows correctly. I should put a larger piece of paper underneath it and draw the sun somewhere so I have a reference. Of course I figured this out after printing...
But how do I prevent smudging (pastel chalk) when I send these out? What can I use to seal this? It's coldpressed 300gsm watercolor paper.
And I'm in sort of a time crunch to get this done.