Sunday, September 26, 2010

Travel Map Ideas

One of the things our travel guild will be doing is making a map!  Saturday I found a roll of tyvek for a $1! I think it will make a great fabric to draw/color/ a map.  I googled tyvek to see what I could find out about it.  It seems it works great with lots of different media.  I decided to try out what I had about the studio so I would have a reference when I start the map.  I kind of have an idea in my mind.  I know my map will need a lovely border to start with.  Maybe something like zendoodling?  I want to know that the fabric/paper will work if I go to all that trouble, don't I?  I made a line on the tyvek of all the media I found close at hand.  Tomorrow, I am going to see how well it sticks by giving it a swipe with a sponge.  Oh, perhaps I should give it a spray of fixative first to see what happens with that.  Any way, I am playing with it and learning what I can do.  I am not going to heat/bubble/shrink it for this project.  Here is the first lines:

Black India Ink wash
ball point pen
#2 pencil
 yellow opaque stain
green craft acrylic
orange Regular crayon
Red Dr. Martin liquid water color
Purple Other liquid water color
Red pan water color
Yellow glass acrylic
Red paint stick
Blue tube acrylic
Copper metallic acrylic
Blue water based marker
Pink permanent chisel Pt marker
Aqua water color pencil
Black fine point sharpie
Blue metalic marker
Pink ultra fine sharpie
Pink Pit pen brush




Flesh tone photo touch up marker
Orange gouache
Black Pilot V Razor writing pen
White out-White signo-White sharpie poster paint pen
Pink Calligraphy pen
Black Y& C Calligraphy pen
Orange Magic color marker
Green Sharpie Poster Paint pen
Brown Pitt Pen
Brown Koor i nor pen      Aqua Souffle Gel
Brown Micron oo5 pen
Sparkly gels
Sakura pens
Pastels
Brown Pigment marker
Blue Paint marker
Black pitt pen fine point brush
Charcoal
Pink W&N watercolor pencil
Graphitint  Inktense pencils
Blue Smooch Ink
Brown walnut spray ink.
Blue stayzon ink.

I am gonna make a beautiful map!

2 comments:

Janet Ghio said...

Carol-I have a bunch of books that talk about using tyvek--I've used it to make beads and other embellishments-have painted it and used a heat gun on it--
You are going to have this journey completed before it has even begun!!LOL! I am still not quite sure what it is all about--I've read all the info on the blog--so I think I will wait for further instructions!!

Arts Web Show said...

That's a pretty neat idea.
Knid of like scrapbooking in a way

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