Well, I started this small practice piece and erm..... not going well me thinks
Some colours (Trans Sienna, Trans Emerald Green) are total so and so's, that won't erase!!!!
I have tried hard rubbers, soft rubbers, blades and tooth picks, nada, diddly, ain't shifting.
Sooooo tried curved blade with a little harder pressure...... hmmmmm OK some comes off,
but erm.... confused.
. Some paint did come off well, but only when I was extremely quick in picking up the blade
and scraping, otherwise nope, not playing today.
I have ended up scratching down to reveal the clay again, and in places it has gone a bit further than that
as you
can see on the cows head.
Also, noted that on a few patches of the board, when the paint landed, it did not lay properly, but kind of pooled and looked
like a smear or a fingerprint kind of mess. Not sure what is happening there, but could it be from skin oils when I had been
handling the board? Or is it because I have my mixture too hard? I say hard, because I can literally scrape the blade across
the surface and not a mark is made in the clay, I can scrape my nail across also and nothing.
Is the clay surface meant to be like chalk? I used Fred G's recipe but halved the measure from his video as was not doing
the same size board (1 Glue, 2 Kaolin, 1 Titanium Dioxide, water to flavoure
)
OR.... is Com-Art only erasable on certain substrates? By the way, the Blue/Black mix for the sky erased real easy with a rubber.
The cow is a mix of Trans Orange and Opaque Raw Sienna (1:1) and 8 thinners.
The smudge marks or whatever are immediately above middle of head and just below tip of right horn.
I have had to resort to trying to paint the hairs in, so this is a lot harder learning than I expected it to be...
But, it's still learning, and probably a good way to do so.