| Author | Message | ||
  Linda |
The saral graphite roll almost indispensable to me, because the line transferred to the watercolor paper is so light, so easy to erase, and works doubly well for graphite portraits. It is reusable many, many, many times. The only thing that got me was the $11 price tag in my local art supply store. At the time I purchased it, I was flush with my husbands wealth, and so felt free to experiment. Now that I'm more poor financially speaking, I would never experiment so indulgently -- but I would still purchase it for $11 a roll for I now know how wonderful it works, how long it will last (practically forever), and what a good value this product really is. It's worth it! But if I were so poor that I could not save up for it, I would do again the ole covering a piece of paper with graphite, using a little alcohol on a cotton ball to smooth it all over, and then use that piece as my "carbon" or transfer sheet. | ||
dirtybird |
Phase 2 of just about all my watercolor paintings begin when I slip a sheet of saral graphite paper between a completed drawing done on tracing paper(phase 1) and a sheet of watercolor paper for retracing. I discovered it a year or so ago and don't know what I did without it. But to each his own. | ||
stan |
I am relatively new to art. had never heard of saral graphite roll until I read Julie Thompson's watercolor demonstration (July 24). However, for many years I improvised by blacking the reverse of a picture with ordinary number two (or softer) pencil and the transfering the image to the paper (probably works with canvas too, never tried that). This will transfer a clean line that is eraseable. Julie's idea to photocopy is excellent, especially with the facility to magnify and/or reduce. |
