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1. Introduction: Hello everyone. My name is Jessica and I'm an artist and illustrator and teacher and a thinker of what if ideas. And I act on them to NUS, a good thing. And just think about what if I try what you have been in that endeavor? I come up with some pretty crazy stuff and I like to share it with other artists because they like what-ifs two. So what is an image transplant? I've heard of image transfers, you say, but an image transplant, there was something different about that. What's a transplant? And a transplant comes from gardening and obviously plant trans. And it means that you move a plant from one place to another from its container. Good at grew into the ground or in a larger, into larger container, which this circulant wants me to do for it. And I will be doing that shortly. Now these days, lot of USSR sketch bookers and we love making art in our sketchbooks, but we also love making art in Procreate on her iPad. And we loved making art on cocktail napkins on a trip for a travel journal. And we love making art on scrap pieces of paper or good pieces of paper. And sometimes we look at that picture and we say, Oh, I wish that was in my sketchbook. And it's not in obviously, you could take a picture of it and you could print a photograph of it and put it, say's it and put it in your book. And I have an entire Skillshare class on how to do that, because to me, photographs are very important part of travel journals. All my sketchbooks really, but travel journals in particular. So I have a Skillshare class. It's called How to use photos and your sketchbook art. That will come in really useful in this class because I won't have to re-explain how to use apps to size of photos to get them so that they'll fit in your sketch book. But this isn't about that. This is about just a discovery I may because I was shipping and order from my online shop. And I print my shipping labels on full page label sheets. I don't know if you know that label sheets come this way or not. But they do and made by the names, you know, like Avery and so on. But is there a sheet of paper and they have a backing because the the back of the paper is sticky. And I had an off brand which is available at half the price or less a quarter of the price of Avery. And, and I will put that source below. But anyway, I wondered what would happen if I basically made myself stickers of line art or whatever? Would I have a way to take the image from my Procreate into my sketchbook and then maybe painted there. And I thought all this probably isn't going to be able to happen, but guess what? It is. It's one great way of getting an image transplanted into your sketchbook. And that's what we're going to be doing in this class, is demonstrating how that's done, where the pitfalls are, and what to do about them. And it's going to be a lot of fun. And your project is going to make yourself a sheet of images, stickers, if you well, but these are stickers that can be painted and stick them in your sketch book and try some of the media that I'm going to show you that I've tried that seemed to work out just ducky on those. So your supplies would be the usual culprits, the sketchbook in the watercolor and so on. But you want to get your hands on some inexpensive matte surface, just label paper and not the stuff. You could use the stuff with the cutout ones. But then you've got a big problem with sizing your art to fit on those. This is the full sheet 8 now 511. And you can put your images anywhere on it and then cut them out later. And so that's the only supply that in a scissors that isn't in our irregular I'm a regular sketch kit. So let's get going. And if you like this concept, you can go to Amazon and all are somewhere. But I will put the link to the specific brand below in the resources section. And there are several other companies making them that I would assume would be the same quality. But we want a matte white surface and a full sheet size.
2. Page Layout and Printing Prep: So the way we would start a project is that we would find artwork that we wanted to put in our sketchbook and try painting in there and seeing how it goes. And there are a million sources for that. And I'm sure if you use Procreate that you have a bunch of little drawings in there, either full color like this or outline like this. And you want to make photos out of them or digitize them into your computer. When I say make photos out of them, when I use my iPad, I just, you know, the photos Gallery doesn't necessarily photos, it's pictures of anything. And so your work needs to be digitized or scan, or take a picture with your phone and make it be in good light so it's not all grayed out. And then the big challenge is to get them laid out in a size. It's going to work for you. And that is the part that it's not that it's too hard to do or anything, but it's detailed and it is it you're all here on Skillshare with me means it's free for you to go and watch at least parts of the class on using photos in your sketch book. And I give you a couple of apps that make it very easy to size and place things. Now, if you work on the computer in any kind of graphics, you can use InDesign or I don't know, a Microsoft Word, I never use that stuff. But you can use any page layout program to put your photos on a letter size page and size them for printing. So that's all printing preparation. And there are a couple of apps for the Macintosh. I know that are not really expensive and you can always use Photoshop. One of the ones I can think of, I think it's called publisher light. And it gives you a, you choose a page and you bring in images and you size them and place them on the page. So what we need is a file that we are going to print onto our label sheet. So now the next issue is whether the line will be waterproof or not. No, I ran this through a Kodak printer that now has now has a compatible ANC because they're not even making the ink anymore, but it used to be waterproof. This is not so much, but I liked it for the color image I did. But I also have a laser printer and I did another copy that I did on a laser printer of the line work so that the laser won't move when you paint on it. And so anyway, I'm going to get that one in order to show you about where you might run into trouble with the backing sheet, there's always something right? But we have a workaround for it.
3. A Peeling Tricks: Okay, This I cut off the bottom because I just want to talk about the black and white artwork. This is now print on a laser printer. And so it is, the artwork itself is, is waterproof. Now because this isn't the expensive Avery or other brands of label sheet. They know have what the others have is a kid's score across the back. And so there's a cut in the backing paper and not in the front in most places on the sheep where you would wanted to peel off, you know, cut out and peel off would have part of that kid's score on it, making it easier to do well, you pay a price when you don't pay a price, right? All faith. So this, this very affordable version and paint double version does not have kiss scores on it at all. And believe me, you could sit there for an entire evening trying to pick at the corner. Once you, once you cut this out, of course, with the scissors, you are marrying these two labels are two layers together, right? I mean, you're feeling numb with that squeeze and so I'm taking the backing off is a hideous affair. So when I tried to do is I line up my images. So then I'm going to be able to cut across and get a spirit. And with this strip, there are ways to deal with the peeling problems or the not so appealing problems. So I'm going to cut my print right across in this direction. And the reason I am doing that is because at each edge of this is a place, I don't know if you can see it by the shine, but there is a place where the backing sheet is sticking out past the paper. So when you have something in this form, you're in business because you can take the whole thing off. And I'm going to lay it down, sticky side up for good reason. And I'm going to cut through the middle of where, you know, roughly speaking, through the middle of where these are. This is the neat way to do it. Sometimes if I'm going to use them all at once, I wrinkle this up and then put it back in and what you can't stick very good, very well. But what I'm gonna do is put these guys back on here. And I'm going to do it a little caddy want this. So that hopefully so it's a corner sticks out or something that I'm going to be able to grab. Because you don't care what this looks like at all. The idea is that once you turn him out your image, you're going to want to get this paper back up there. Okay, that looks like not a neat job, right? But it's going to work for us.
4. Testing . . . Testing: Well, I pulled this, this is a sheet from this sketch book and I pulled it out because this was my initial experimentation with this idea of using this kind of illustration here. So everything on this page is a sticker, will start calling them sticker or let's call them transplants, that's even better. So everything on this page is a transplant and these are done with different media on laser printed ones. And up here, this is the brand that we're talking about. This. I don't know how you say it best ski or something like that. But anyway, these are all on the bottom row here and they just stood very well with the wet media. And obviously there was a dry colored pencils and stuff to up here was Avery. And I really did not like what happened in a lot of ways. I didn't like what happened. If it likes, it drank the wet media, right? It just soaked it in so you couldn't spry that you couldn't lift it, you couldn't blend it. You couldn't do anything with it. And I to I thought, what if we have another example of that over here too? Just the red, this is the read write and it's just, oh, I thought I would be tricky and try like a varnish a crime on spray. Because I also wanted to find out if you had an inkjet print, if you could waterproof it or if you were just stuck with dry media. And so I did varnish, I varnish some Avery and I varnished one of this brand right here. And on both. Oh, it was a matte finish spray. It was I actually didn't use cryo on a used a golden varnish, UV varnish because I have it here and with a matte finish. So I thought, Well, anything's going to going to take the paint that would and it did, but it took it much better on the ones that are in our favorite here than it did on the Avery. And when the watercolor first went down, it really wanted to beat up and I really had to coax it to, to spread. And so I, I concluded that I didn't think that the varnishing trick was a very good one. So anyway, what really worked well was here, and that's what I'm going to be showing you. Now. I have a tried watercolor, the dye based brush pens that I talked about so much in my list studio handbook class here on Skillshare, watercolor, pencils and water brush. And this was acrylic paint pen, all of which were really fun. So we're going to try those.
5. Transplanting: Before we can try coloring, know we have to transplant our images to our book. And so I am going to trim this to how I want it. And that'll be kind of close in. But I'm also watching that backing paper to make sure that I leave somewhere that I'm going to be able to grab that copy and I do. I have a little coronary hair. Where's that little corner that's on that side but I have a split here, so I'm good. So I'm going to trim my image now, you could cut all the way around it, but you do realize that that to do that you should really wrinkle the backing paper before it putting an act as if you cut off close around it, you'd be really, really ceiling and around the image right now. And that's not what we want. So I'm not gonna do that. I'm just going to go with pretty much a little rectangle around it. And when I come over onto the back because I had done with what I did, It's very easy to remove the backing paper. The adhesive is very nice too. And so you just place it where you want it. And there you go. You have the image that you drew, right? I did anyway, over in Procreate and now it's in my sketchbook. And surprisingly with most of my sketchbooks, some match of whites, It's just not bad. And once the color is on, you barely see it. But it's certainly not as obvious as the photograph, even so I burnish after I have it stuck on there. And the reason for that is that you're attempting this is not that thick of paper, you know, and when we're going to use watercolor on it and water media on it. We're attempting to one to warp. And so I want the bond to the page to be very smooth and tight, no air bubbles. And so that will that will lessen the temptation to have any little bubbles around the edges. And I'll show you the other piece. Would I mean, it happened like kind of badly on the Avery. I, I liked that company, but goodness, it didn't do well in this little experiment at all. Don here though these, there was a lot of moisture used her and I didn't see the edges wanting to come up at all. Were the acrylic pen was here. I actually lifted some with water and so it got a little bit down here of wanting to separate, if you will, but overall just not bad at all. I'm going to add the other two so that we can try a few different media and see what we think. Okay, I'm still going to be able to get that off there. This trick of cutting up, planning for this problem and coming up the backing papers are really good trip because otherwise there's a level of frustration and get your right out of this particular experiment in a bigger, well, I'm not doing this. And it's probably not totally straight, but what do we care, right? I see that in a cavalier fashion. I'm such a perfectionist, weirdo, you wouldn't believe it. But you can't do that about everything or you won't have time for anything. So and there's that one. These are cute little plants I drew in Procreate now sat on a shelf together. This one is splits right in the middle. So I'm going to be able to term this one without too much fear of any bad things happening. There we go. And now my split back is fray here. So no problem. And here we go again. I really love this. I think this is exciting. It looks better than any transfer method. I'll tell you a little story. I had the most magical paper in the world. It was called shear heaven. And I created it in, it was a translucent sheet and it transferred inkjet prints like magic. But all good things come to an end usually because of money and that's what happened. Cost of manufacturer was like insane. So I had to discontinue it in 2016 and therefore I had to quit doing transfers. And that is one thing that led me to to figuring out how to do transplants, because any inkjet transfer method that's out there right now has a mess factor to it. And I just wasn't into that, especially in a sketchbook. So the next thing we're gonna do is add color and a try three different ways to do it and see how we like it.
6. Painting Transplants With Watercolor: Okay, so I can't use my real paint palette over here because the laptop is sitting on it to tell me whether I have this stuff on screen or not. And so I am going to try this first one in watercolor. No, I'm lying. I'm going to try the second one in watercolor because of the glass here. I know what I want to try on that. And so I have a number to synthetic round Versace old brush and I have my my filbert kinda pick up and I have a water brush for when I need it over here. So I'm going to start with watercolor. And I'm going to start on the cactus in the middle, which is going to start with a spring green. And like in all my classes, you know how I paint and I do section by section so that I can lift and get some some form. And if you haven't taken my other classes, then just watch because this is a great way to do small new spot illustrations in watercolor. And I come back and I'll pick that up. And I pick that up and I have values going on already and I've hardly even tried. Now I'm going to get just a bit of the darker green and get most of it off on there, just to add a little difference in that shadow area. And then I'm back again with my old filbert. I'm going to blend that out so that this is a little bluer now, I'm a green and you'll notice that I I painted either side. They're not know wet next to wet. And that's a really wonderful thing to do too. And so, because the left side here hits my still wet thing there, my first section I have to pain is the lightest section here on this one. And you notice it's kind of a, you know, it's a significant amount of moisture. It's going down here. So there not that one. I'm going to keep the middle, the nice spring green on both of these so I can't do anything there either way now. And so I'm going to go after my pot and I'm going to make my pot to Tom between a yellow ocher in Sienna, Burnt Sienna. And I will start. Oops, I didn't claim that brush very well. That's not good. And we're going to start with the O. And I'm going to do every other. Role of whatever you call it the pot. And for those quickness, for the sake of goodness, I'm gonna do two of them and then come back and left my highlight out. Too much water in that paint. But we'll make it happen. Never fear. So now we're waiting for that to dry so we can put our other layers in. But if I come back here, god bless santa FE, right? It's dry already. And I'm going to be able to go in with my spring green anyway. In the center section here, the two sides are dry and nothing was going to happen. That's bad. But look at this just it's working like a fine watercolor paper. I came believe this is one of my finer would ifs goes the sky's the limit to this, you know, or you can no. You can use any Emory DRE from anywhere and color it after the fact. So it's a fine kettle of fish review. Well, and there's my spring green there and there I'm picking it up. Inherent touch of the darker. None if I don't write it down, let me put you to sleep there. I just want want you to watch this because I want you to watch the behavior this crazy labeled paper sleep, nothing bad is happening. Well, not just shocked me because you can't, you as watercolor on crummy thin paper, right? Everybody knows. Look at us. All you gotta do is have a bunch of glue on the back of it, I guess. And everything changes. Took a little chance there, but not much because it is really, really dry today. So I knew we were going to be okay. Okay. Poo show and their PR little bill on there. And there we have our cactus. Am going to grab just a tiny bit of yellow right here for the center of the cactus blossoms. And this is not intended to teach you how to paint with watercolor. For those of you who are such accomplished artists and don't want to be bothered with that. It is about you watching with the watercolor is doing on this crazy paper because I think you're going to like it. So now I can go back to my other and I don't know what you'd call these ridges, I guess. I don't know. It's like a pinch pot or what do they call it? The recoiled. The whole pot is made out of a coil that wraps around and around like that. And I've got my burnt sienna now. And I'm just doing the rest of these. And the top one to pollute my yellow and a little bit, but that's okay. I think we're done with the ice. And now I go back for my pickup and a little damp brush action in there and in here. And form, incident form. So exciting. It's so much easier than all the layering has just gone. Sometimes. We're almost done now, this is a thing of beauty. Dying. Think I've not to pay me where the drawing, but I mean, the brilliance of the water color. The whole nine yards, it's not it's moving on the top of this. I don't know what they size this with, but it's just it's behaving in a frightfully wonderful manner. So all I need now is my darker interior of the pot. That's not dark enough. There we go. And then those followers could be white. I might decide to make them red. But I don't know right now. So I'm going to stop on this guy and I wouldn't even bring it up a little. Oops. So you can see this is really a thing of beauty. And we're very excited about it and get a little noisy there. We don't have any edges coming up in. I do think that it is a better thing to cut your rectangle or square frame for this because you're giving some space between the moisture and the edge and lessening the temptation that the edge might have to sit up. When I had even a little tiniest bit of issue over here. It was because I had termed this the trim line and this is like right up just almost on the edge. So that meant that the moisture, I don't think there would have been a problem with just the curly paint pen because because it's acrylic and it wasn't as watery but I, you know, I had a lift and all that, so I got in there and a lot of people don't know you can do that, but those pins do not have to be flat color. If you're fast, you know, soon as you put them down, you can do a similar thing to what I do with watercolor. And you can lighten them and get instant forum and I was doing now, so of course I added a lot of moisture here. You know, it was right up against the edge. And in this case, I've got some nice margin between the edge of the sticker, if you will, the transplant and the moisture area. I'm going to change out my media and I'll be right back and we're going to try our dye color water-soluble markers, which they call water color brush pens. On this one with our water brush and I'm gonna see if we make too much trouble because of that.
7. Painting Transplants with Brush Pens: I'm back with new toys and what I have now are three watercolor brush pen, say call them. But as we discussed at length in my chapter 2 of the studio handbook classes, they are not watercolor, they're die, but that gives them their own gift to. And one of the methods that I talked about in that class, we're going to try this. And that is having a water brush and using the brush pen only along the edges. And then we're going to have London. And so this is a gray that I hope is going to be light enough, but I'm just going to put a little shadow along the glass. This is a glass picture and we can see through it. And so we just, there'd be a little bit of a shadow there, but we don't want to we want it mostly white. So I'm starting with my water brush in the middle where it is wide and going into blend the color and not coming out. Because if you start at the edge and you come out, you're going to bring too much gray and with you and to the center. Okay. So there and then there would be a little more back in here because this is a back edge. It's being shadowed by things. And I don't want it too dark. And then the inside of the handle would also have a little more shadow and right there where it joins the pitcher. So there we go now. Okay, and our glass is done. Isn't this fun? You can put the marker top on the water brush. Lesson, not learned. A bunch times. Keeps happening now. So I have a little aqua color here for our water. And again, we're not gone solid. We're just going to go around the edge. And then the water is going to do the rest of the drama for us and again, coming in and not bringing it out. Yes, I always turn my sketchbook. It's not glued down and rather than my hand being uncomfortable, I'd rather that the sketchbook do whatever. If it's uncomfortable, I'm sorry about it. But it's better than me making the wrong mark or the wrong line because my hand isn't comfortable. Okay. So I'm working on looking at this paper isn't even coming up like sketchbook paper does. I mean, it would I'm sure if I kept at this, but because unless you have a 100 percent watercolor paper in a sketchbook, you cannot do a lot of scrubbing is just not allowed in world. So now I'm going to get a green and I'm going to do solid color. And then try to pick a little bit up, which is usually possible. But who knows with the dye, it could be sinking in further than the water Claudio pain. So we don't know. Again, I'm going to try to do that. Okay. I wet it, picking it up a little red. A red, uh, I'm gonna get my filbert over here to help me because I can't pick up very well with a water brush. I don't know why that is, but you'd think it would be better. But what I think is because as we know, the water brush tip is always wicking moisture. So there's moisture there and it's not thirsty enough to pick up highlights. That's what I think. Wow, nice. So now we have watercolor itself, fake watercolor or otherwise known as dy. And both of them were using water width and we're not getting in any trouble. If you were to told me this and not shown me out and never believed it. So water water, water, water and water. And then bring the filbert and again, pick up highlights. And again, I'm going to leave the flowers to decide later. So I'd like to move. I'll show you what watercolor pencil will do, which is not watercolor either. But it's water-soluble. And I think in marketing they wanted to be as clear as they possibly can. Beautiful. Okay, Next, I'll get the other supplies and be right back.
8. Painting Transplants with Watercolor Pencil: Here we go. We've got some water color pencils to start this wrath. I'm going to put the center of the cow alleles in here in yellow. And I'm just going to leave that alone. And then the bucket, I'm going to apply the dry pencil in gray gray steel bucket. Now, I will say that I'm not sure. The colored pencils would layer that well on here because there's not a lot of two, but I mean, it's good enough for colored pencils. Okay, so I've got my basics here. Basic light gray. And we're going to have some shadow there and along under that handle. And under the RAM is what I love about watercolor pencils is that you can do your thinking and apply things. It's going to be very dark and they're dry. And you have all the time in the world. And then you can apply the water and have the same look as you would have with watercolor. It's really pretty cool. All right, and I'm going to leave that realm. I know we're going to have shadow here and some on the bottom. So let's see what happens when we hit this with the water brush. And I always start in a wide area. I also have a Skillshare class on how to paint with watercolor pencils. So if this interests you and all that, sitting over there, your leisure. I did a lot of classes in 2020 because I don't know what to do with myself. Until March, I ran an Airbnb in an art gallery downtown and Santa Fe. Now it ran around and all of a sudden the floor dropped out and I was home and I wasn't doing anything and I thought, well, I'm going to do with myself and I started, I was a Skillshare student in love Skillshare. So I thought, well, I'll start teaching online again. I had taken some years off from that. And I, this is, I think the 18th class are maintained or maybe 18th. I have no idea. But they're all good. I tell you that they're fun and. Hopefully they lead you to fund things. Now I don't have any green out, I'm going to have to get that and I won't make you wait. But I like how the bucket turned out. I got a couple of earthy greens here and just a light and a dark. This is a small spot illustration, so I don't have to be too heavy with the color. And with watercolor pencils, you don't want to be too heavy with your coverage because once you get it melting, you're going to end up with just a whole lot more molten paint going on, then you can control something that you learn the hard way as all of these are, things are. And then this green or make a nice bluish and now nice yellowish. So that should make a nice little. And I'll make the stems just green. Not worry about that. Not going to try to pick up in there that's too small. So this is not even bad drives kind of soft. But, you know, when you hit it with the water rushes on the colors pop and it gets pretty exciting. And here goes with that. And I, we're starting in the lighter area so that I don't lose at, wanna keep that light green and not pull too much dark into it. I just love how the watercolor travels, pigment travels and picks up and blends on this paper. Cows from China. Let's hope that either they stay in business for a long time. Are there other competitors make the same thing? Because oftentimes there's one manufacturer making something in a lot of different brand names. So you can usually get what you need to get. So there we have it. This is watercolor pencil. This is watercolor, this is brush, watercolor, brush markers, otherwise known as dy. All three behaved wonderfully. There's no warping, there is no popping up along the edge. And I think we use to good deal of water for you when you peel a backing off and he says You're going to see that paper is thin and so on it's own or I don't think you could ever do this, but the surface, I mean, it's sized really wrong. That's probably because you have to print labels on it and it has to live through the mail, which a lot of things can't survive. So this is incredible and I want to see what you transplant into your book. And There's wonderful clip art out there in this world. And I will put these sources below two, because if you don't have a lot of drawings that you can use this way, you can buy the rights. Nowadays, you can buy the rights to different clipper collections for like almost nothing. And you don't have the right to resell it as it is, but you have the right to use it in your books into alter it and use it on commercial products. And one of those outfits is called Creative Market.com. And the other one, design cuts.com. And both have just an amazing array of design source things. And some are somehow procreate brushes that are actually Procreate stamps. And you just hit the, the iPad with you with the Apple Pencil and boom, you've got like a plant and for the full thing. So they're just wonderful, wonderful opportunities out there to get things to do this with in your sketch book. But I do have a couple of other tricks up my sleeve and I'm going to be back with them very shortly.
9. Extras and Conclusions: So I just wanted to, I went over this first very quickly in the beginning, but I wanted to point out that if you're here, illustration that you have done is already in color. You can print it on here and it's just not bad. It's really not pad color quality, it's not photo paper. But there is nothing at all That's awful about it. And so you can print out your photos on here. And they are all ready to stick in place without having to use Douglas double-sided tape or anything which is done is just very cool. I can't say that I cut that line here very well. So I won't I won't say that. And so I, I had done my cutting weirdness of the background paper and it worked. And so now all I have to do is put this in place and not wrinkle it. If you do a rank lead, you can still get rid of any air in there. What a bone folder. And well, not even being careful hair while nothing scratching it. This is a Teflon bone folder. Those probably why. But anyway, so colored picture and then I wanted to show you one more strange thing which was on here. And you go, what is that? What that is? I was working in a travel journal. I still am. And this was a little winery wine tasting room where I am in St. Genevieve, Missouri. And I really enjoyed my sitting outside and watching people go by and drinking a nice sharp name. So I have a whole thing going on in my travel journal about this and I cut the bottom of this. It was like a little list of services or winds or something. I cut the bottom and I actually put it in the sketchbook. And then I had a place where I wanted to do something else and I thought I'm going to scan do I actually took a picture with the iPhone. And I'm going to pick up this imagery. And I'm going to make a piece of border to stick on the page. It could go this way. Could go this way. But just see you can take that approach to when you're doing travel journaling or sketching and you've got something, maybe it's thick and you know, on a glue on your page because it's going to be really thick. There's, there's no thickness here at all. So when I cut this out and put it in my travel journal, it just be nice and flat. And that led me to the final idea and I'll be back to tell you about that in a moment. For my final trick, I'm going to ask you if you've heard or washy tape WAS HI, I think it's a very, very popular product. It's a paper tape and it is used for all kinds of things. You can use it to hold something in a sketch book or anywhere. And people use it to border other art or border quotation or whatever. And it's sold in roles and it's, you know, you have to take the designs that they decided to make. And then the other thing is that the adhesive is not strong, so It's good for something that you're going to want to move later. But it's not so good if you want to hold something in place with it. So this is our own washi tape we made. This is so exciting, It's just amazing. So what I did was I have some watercolor pages that I didn't have time to make myself, but they came from Design Cuts. And as a matter of fact, Design cuts has this free area for customers. So if you buy regularly from them or I don't know what the requirements are, but this little thing will pop up and it'll say, how about these freebies and Creative Market, does it too. They send e-mails and they'll have, they'll offer certain things for free during a week so that you get acquainted with some of the artists that you might not know that have their work there. And so one of these free because I buy so much there are I can't believe it, but this was free and it was textured watercolor pages. So I just grabbed him. These were already digital files when you purchase them or get them for free either way. And so you could just put them into Photoshop or a page program or whatever and just print the whole thing. I didn't want that much of each color because this is for a special page project. And so I resize them, you know, cut a slice of it. And these are both the same size here. And then this one I cut up because I wanted to show you, I put it on a paper trimmer and cut it into half inch strips like so so that they're nice and even. And of course, we don't have our problem about the the backside getting off because we have actually on these strips, we have both ends and a two we can pull from. And so and I also want to show you that I do this pretty often if there's at least a half of a sheet that I'm not going to use, I save it because if you use the correct, you know, the machine made whatever edge, you can feed this in again and print another half a sheet of something. And I did some checking and amazon Celsius, I'm on a subscription basis, you know, like offices order refills and everything. So I think it's a product that's going to be readily available and for quite some time or they wouldn't be doing now. So unhappy about it. It's, it's almost gotta kinda sat ne, finish to it. So I'll show you how I would put the strip of my homemade washi tape and what it would look like. Let's take one with a lot of variety. So I've got my end here. That's the banking tape is passed. And I could this is just a test or I would cut that way it off. And so you have washi tape. Look and feel. Not just cut this with a scissor. You have the washi tape look and feel, but you have a really good at ESA. And especially if you were to burnish it, if you didn't drop your burnisher, you know, that's that's going to hold something in place for like ever. So sometimes people will make pockets in their sketchbooks now on another piece of paper and then they want to, they didn't want it to look good and so they use the washi tape around it. But anyway, the sky is the possibilities, right? There's no limit. So I know the ER imagination is going to take this transplanted MH idea to a lot of places that I haven't even thought about and I'm excited to know about that. So if you have some results that you really like and even if you don't, if you run into a problem, I didn't turn out the way you wanted it to. Please put it in the project section. I always answer questions and I always look at everything that a student uploads. And so it's a good place to have a conversation if you find that something went scurry on you, and if I can help, I will certainly help. But in the meantime, this is just the most fun thing. There's laptops that can its nose in the picture there. This is just the most fun adventure to have. And oh, I don't know if I mentioned the price is 1299 for this for a 100 sheep pack of this label paper on Amazon. And like I said, I'll put it in the resources, but I want to see what you do when you ask what if.
Jessica Wesolek, Artist/Teacher
