Hello friends! Spellbinder's BetterPress Plate of the Month, Wild and Free, is a lush and beautiful tropical composition. I have coloured it using a combination of water colours for the images and a Copic marker on the background.
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The BetterPress Plate of the Month, image and sentiment together, were letterpressed on Porcelain BetterPress A2 Cotton Card Panels. I used the new Full Size Black BetterPress Ink Pad. This is a slow drying ink, so of course the small ink pads work equally as well but the large pad on this A2 sized image makes for a quick and easy application of ink.
The background was coloured first with Copic B39. I wasn’t sure how the marker would work on the cotton panel. It applied evenly but I was careful working around the images not to apply pressure because the ink would bleed. Rather I simply went around the image outlines just touching the nib to paper.
With the background coloured, the images were easier to discern. They were water coloured with Mijello Mission Gold. To keep the colours soft, I used a ‘wet on wet’ technique. An area is first coated lightly with water followed by the wet paint.
The panel was trimmed to 4” by 5 1/4” and adhered to a black matted, A2 sized card base.
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