If I draw a design on rice paper using my posca pen and then laminate it onto the board will the ink run?
Test it out - ALWAYS test something new on small test pieces. Soak the laminate in resin let it set for a few minutes, then rub on it a few times. If it runs, don’t use it - unless you like that sort of effect
Chesser’s right, watch out. I had trouble with some running with some resins. Not only that, I had trouble with the rice paper shrinking because Posca is water-based and the water causes the paper to freak out. I imagine you could press the paper flat later, like pressing a flower in a book. If you are going to draw something one-off but want more permanence than paint pens covered with clear spray, you could try the following: Do your artwork on the smoothly sanded hotcoat. Then apply a resin hotcoat over the artwork well past the outer edge of the artwork. Be sure to use UV hotcoat resin so there is less time for the artwork to run. Feather sand the edge of the second hotcoat and use progressively finer grits as you sand the hotcoat over the art. Good Luck…
I drew my design on regular paper then scanned it into a digital file. Then used photo delux to tune it up and saturate some of the color before printing it on rice paper. only works on smaller art…8 1/2 x 11. One trick for scanning is to use a copy machine on the black and white outline to enlarge it. You can then fix all the edges with a marker and white out then reduce it back to regular size. Looks really crisp then add color detail and scan. Poor mans way I guess. By the way the white needs to be true white, I had to pull the image up real large and remove the errant pixels around the edges of the scan. First lam and I realized you could see a slight yellow the printer picked up! Removed those pesky pixels and clear as a bell after that. Be sure to print on the smooth side of the paper.MLC
ive done it once, well actually not me, an artist did it for me, i told him to think of a sweet way o write my logo, and he did, free hand with posca pens on the paper. it didnt run much FOR ME but i would still test it. dj
Howzit Mike, Try spraying some clear acrylic on it, but like Chesser said test it first. Aloha, Kokua
Don’t use the copy to lam. Copy is just used to prep the art for your scan into a digital file to print on your inkjet. Tape the rice paper to a plain sheet of paper,shiny side up and use your inkjet to make the lam. I’ll try to post some examples tomorrow…not at home right now.
Thanks to everyone for your input. My drawing is a simple black ink illustration of a rooster fish. I tested the posca by laminating a piece of rice paper between layers of glass on a chunk of foam. No running. I traced my drawing onto rice paper. I bit of spreading of the ink but acceptable at this point. Its going on the board. I don’t have a scanner, yet. I just found swaylock’s last week. Unbelievable resource!
I tried a lam with a laserjet print once. The laserjet uses black toner like a xerox copy and it will blur a bit under the resin. More if you work it hard. Stick to the inkjet printers with waterbased inks. You can use water color markers too on ricepaper.