SamanthaKira: Sticking pages

It's a well known issues for art journalers, like myself, who work with heavy body acrylic paints- liquitex and golden that they stick to the previous page if there is one ounce of acrylic on it. And forget it if you apply heat. The pages are done. Samantha gives some good tips. I've got a few of my own. First If you work in acrylic go over the page with watercolor crayons, a think layer spread out with water on a brush helps to keep the pages from sticking. As will a layer of nupastels, artstix or colored pencil. In the art journal I did previous to the current journal I used layers of a 50/50 mix of bee's wax and parafin. I made a palm sized cake of it and would rub it over the top of my dried pages. After that I would buff it into the page with a rag. If I wanted a really heavy layer of the wax I'd heat the page with my heat gun and rub it onto the warmed page, then I'd heat it again and buff. I get very little sticking in that journal and I worked some pages very impasto.

Comments

[DrRuss]

What brand of watercolor crayons do you use? I have some crayons that people told me were watercolor but aren't. I get get the color to spread. Any recommendations for watercolor crayons would be appreciated--russ

[leslie herger]

i use caran d'ache iv'e tried some of the other brands and do not like them at all. While expensive a small set will last a long time as they color is very concentrated.

[newfry]

i have to disagree with the glossy theory. fluid acrylics stick too. the answer is what you said. the wax. i use dorland's wax. works for spray paint too. i think this person is a very new journaler.

[leslie herger]

Samantha Kira has been around awhile, couple years on youtube, not sure how long she's been journaling... I agree though, most acrylics and other paints will tend to stick. (Other than watercolors,and gouache, never had an issue there) I do notice that glossy acrylics are really bad. though I've got some matte fluid acrylics that stick like the dickens. I think it comes down to which has more of the actual carrier in it. Though I've found it's really bad with my expensive acrylics oddly enough...

Wax is the best solution I've come up with. It may still stick later, but it's the kind that if you warm the page slightly it will come apart (had it happen after a hot day) with no damage to the page. I've never tried dorlands but my mix of 50 bee's wax/ 50 parafin works well for me; goes on clear and give the page a nice sheen.