u/ishapintura — reddlx

Cutoff date

Hi! I’m planning to start a mail club and deciding my work flow schedule. I was thinking of having cutoff date the end of the month to receive the next month’s letter. For example, sign up from July 1-31st for August’s letter that will be sent out the first week of August. But then, I’m wondering if it makes sense to advertise August’s letter in July.

I feel like it’s more intuitive to advertise August’s letter in August however, if the cut off date is end of August, subscribers will be receiving August’s letter in September which also feels like its “late”.

If you’re the one receiving the mail, which would you prefer?

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u/ishapintura — 9 days ago

▲ 2 r/aceo

Batch-created a food series

I recently painted a banana foster pancake on my sketchbook and I really enjoyed painting the sauce and got inspired to do a food series 😊 I’ve just been painting individual ACEO before but this time around, I batch-created 8 at once. It was def a process! I learned that 8 was a bit too much for me and will keep it to 4 or 6 next time 😂

You can check them out here: https://www.ebay.com/usr/ishapintura

u/ishapintura — 13 days ago

▲ 7 r/bookbinding

Watercolor paper wrong grain direction

I bought a 9x12 watercolor paper pad thinking that it will be long grain since 12inch is the second number but when I tested it, it’s actually short grain…. So now, I’ll have to make a landscape sketchbook that’s 4.5 inch tall by 6 inch wide. I wanted it to be 6 inch tall 😅 I’m a bit bummed… but I really like this paper so I guess I’ll just have to try it out

For those that makes their own watercolor sketchbook, do you prefer landscape or portrait?

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u/ishapintura — 25 days ago

▲ 2 r/aceo

Northern Lights ACEO

These were fun to make! Inspired by the photos I took when the northern lights showed up in NY two years ago. Instead of trees like in my photo, I added mountains and interestingly enough, the part where I put the tape kinda looks like water.

I listed them on ebay 😊 https://www.ebay.com/usr/ishapintura

u/ishapintura — 2 months ago

▲ 6 r/bookbinding

I tried making watercolor sketchbook

Hi!!! I tried binding my own sketchbook and wowww! Its such a long process, just cutting paper took me 2 hours 😅

For the blue one, I did a coptic stitch and the uncovered one I used both coptic and french linking stitch. I def need more practice since my stitches aren’t as pretty. That’s why I covered the first sketchbook.

Is there another stitch that lays flat but you don’t see much thread in the inside? Like for the coptic stitch, I’m not a fan of a long line of stitches on the page.

Also, I just got a book binding kit and it came with the thread but I don’t know what thickness it is. I do want a slightly thinner thread if possible, what size would I search when buying next?

Also, gluing the book cover is such a messy process 😅 I wonder if using a double sided tape for fabric would work for next time?

Thanks! And any tips are appreciated. I actually enjoyed the stitching process 😊

u/ishapintura — 2 months ago

▲ 8 r/aceo

My first ACEO (bird series) now up on ebay

Hi! I made my first ever ACEOs. I started with a bird series. You can check them out here: https://www.ebay.com/usr/ishapintura

They did take me a while to make but I learned with each painting and it was fun!

The 5 birds are now up for 5 days and I’ll list the mountain and matcha next week 🙏

Feel free to share which of the birds you like the best 😊

u/ishapintura — 2 months ago