I was saying the other day that it’s so hard to get away from plastic, even though I do make an effort to do so. Not making much of an effort this day…
You can get some very interesting effects using plastic wrap. I am so weak.
Affinity
Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
Look on the bright side, at least you’re not as bad as that Christo character who wrapped entire buildings, coastlines etc in plastic wrap.
That helps. I’m feeling terribly guilty over this plastic wrap, if I used the amount Christo did, I’d probably want to jump off a building or something.
parchment paper or wax paper might work pretty well….
No, tried wax paper, not the same,* and parchment paper sticks, which is seriously problematic, because you have to heavily weight the plastic down on your piece, and leave it until it’s dry.
*The wax paper just doesn’t crumple and wad up the same way plastic wrap does, and it’s too slick to get the patterns embossed properly.
Anyroad, I’m stopping. I had one more piece I wanted done, and it’s weighted down right now, so no more plastic.
@#4: oh, phoo. :(
It’s tough when you find a piece of a process that you can’t swap out. When I was doing ambrotypes I got addicted to how they looked on black glass. That inevitably set me up for agony when the company I sourced my glass from stopped making big sheets of the stuff.
Marcus:
Yeah, it is. The plastic wrap gives an almost stained glass kind of effect, and it peels off cleanly as long as you take it slow. I’d really like to experiment more with this, doing much larger sizes, but I can’t bring myself to do it. Yet. If I can recycle the stuff, then I’ll go ahead. Most [recycling] places here are finicky about plastic though, and want only certain types, and all of it has to be clean.
Oooh, ambrotype. That really had to hurt, losing the glass.
Now we know what happens to the paint tubes after the rats are done eating them…