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    Homemade Art Supplies, A Survival Guide For Artists
    Homemade Art Supplies, A Survival Guide For Artists
    Homemade Art Supplies, A Survival Guide For Artists
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    Homemade Art Supplies, A Survival Guide For Artists

    By Robin Moulyn

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    Some of the topics in this book are recipes on how to make Gesso, acrylic molding paste, spray inks etc. How to make wood canvas boards, substrates or painting surfaces using recycled materials. How to adapt and use various paints and such in different ways to make your art supply dollar stretch. How to make cool watercolor pallets using fun things you might never thought to use. This book includes materials that you can find world wide, so that you can adapt your materials in almost any country. This is a 120 page book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobin Moulyn
    Release dateJul 13, 2018
    ISBN9781387935291
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      Homemade Art Supplies, A Survival Guide For Artists - Robin Moulyn

      Homemade Art Supplies

      A Survival Guide For Artists

      Homemade Art Supplies, A Survival Guide For Artists

      Copyright: © Robin Moulyn

      Published: 2018

      Publisher: Robin Moulyn

      Cover and Illustrations by ©Robin Moulyn

      ISBN 978-1-387-93529-1

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any format or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook/book may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      For permission requests or to find out more about the author and upcoming books online at, write to the publisher/author, addressed Robin Moulyn, Baños de Agua Santa, Tungurahua, Ecuador, 1931 or go to her web site: www.robinmoulynart.com, or email moulyn_art@yahoo.com

      Homemade Art Supplies

      A Survival Guide For Artists

      Table Of Contents  3

      Home-ade Art Supplies Introduction  8

      Toxicity  13

      Recycling, Reusing: Upscale Your Life  14

      Rating System  14

      From The Base Up  15

      Wood Canvas  15

      Where To Find Interior Wood Doors  16

      How To Create A Wood Door Canvas  17

      What To Do With A Damaged Door  18

      Painting On Plywood Panels And Canvas Board  18

      Canvas Board  18

      Prepare Your Wood Surface With Gesso  19

      Stains And Marks That Bleed Through!  19

      Fabric Canvas  20

      Easter Egging  21

      Stretching Canvas  21

      Preparing Your Painting Surface  22

      Frames  22

      Paper  22

      How To....Your Paper  22

      Preparing Your Recycled Surface  24

      Swatch It Out, Test And Record Your Experiments  24

      Colour And Light-Fast Swatch Chart  25

      Paper Making  26

      Acid Testing  26

      Gesso  26

      Gesso’s Basic Construction  27

      Gesso’s Purposes  27

      Gesso Recipes  29

      Talc Based Recipe  30

      Plaster Of Paris Based Recipe  30

      Baking Soda Based Recipe  31

      Transparent Gesso Recipe  32

      Next Layer: Texture  33  Texture Paste: Gesso Gone Wild  33

      Fibre Paste  34

      Fibre Paste Instructions  35

      Shaving Cream Molding Paste  36

      Acrylic Medium  37

      Mod Podge  38

      Ready For Paint?  39

      Rescuing Paint  39

      Where You Can Rescue Paint  40

      Rescue Paint  40

      What To Bring To A Paint Rescue  41

      What To Do With Too Much Paint  42

      Mixing The Colour Wheel And House Paint  42

      Chalk Paint  43

      Chalk Paint Recipe  43

      Crackly Paint  44

      Watercolour Or Alcohol Ink Options  45

      Dyes And Inks  45

      Powder Pigment Effect  46

      Spray Inks  47

      Effect Ideas For Spray Ink  48

      Homemade Pigment Grater  49

      How To Make A Pigment Grater  50

      Children's School Markers  50

      Felt Tip Markers: Inside And Out  50

      Harvesting The Ink From School Markers  51

      Instructions On How To Harvest From Felttipped Markers  51

      What To Do With The Empty Marker?  53

      Prepare Pen To Be Converted  54

      Water Pens And More  54

      Water Pen  55

      Assembly Of Water Pen  55

      Alcohol, Solvent Or Baby Oil Pen  56

      Customize Your Pen  57

      Resist Pen  57

      Blender Pen  57

      Blender Pen Recipe  57

      Mica/Glimmer Brush Pen  59

      Mica Glimmer Recipe  59

      Shiny Up Your Sprays, Paints, Mediums And Glues  60

      My Coloured Pencil Trick  61

      The Microwave Trick For Dropped Coloured Wax Pencil  63

      Charcoal  63

      Fixative For Graphite Or Charcoal/Hair Spray  64

      Storage Of Graphite Or Charcoal Drawing  65    Tracing, Tracing Table And Tracing Paper  65

      Tracing Table  66

      Making Marks  66

      Brushes  67

      Cleaning Your Paint Brushes  67

      Sponges And Plastic Bags  69

      Sponge Daubers  69

      How To Make A Sponge Dauber  70

      First Technique  70

      Second Technique  70

      Stamps, Stencils And Mono Printing  71

      Shoes  71

      Fun Foam  71

      Heating Foam For Stamps  72

      Cutting Your Stamps  72

      Glue Gun Stamps  73

      Silicone Stamps  73

      Silicone Stamp Recipe  73

      Stencils  73

      Stencils - The Old Fashioned Way  74

      Glue Gun Stencils  74

      Mono Printing  75

      Gelatin Plate For Mono Printing  775

      Gelatin Plate For Recipe  75

      Instructions For The Gelatin Plate  77

      Options For Gelatin Plate  77

      Mono Plate Techniques  77

      Collage Ideas  78

      Palettes  78

      Studio Palette  79

      Clutch Watercolour Palette  80

      Travel Game Sets  80

      Mint/Candy Tins, Or Playing Card Tins  81

      Notebook Palette/Travel Watercolour Palette  81

      Peerless Watercolour Palette  82

      Pans  82

      Watercolour Pans  82

      Make Up Pans  82

      Travel Brushes  83

      Masking  84

      Masking Film  84

      Painters Tape  84

      Masking Fluid  85

      Mold Making Rubber/Latex  85

      Rubber Cement  86

      Using Masking Fluid With Acrylic Paint  86

      Removing Latex Or Rubber Mask  87

      Non Removable Masks  87

      Masking Using White Glue Or Acrylic Medium  87

      Wax As A Mask  88

      Other Products And Possibilities  88

      Washi Tape  88

      Magic Eraser By Mr. Clean  89  Baby Wipes  89

      Paper Towel  89

      Quick Reference  90

      Absorbency  90

      Acid  90

      Acrylic Mediums  90

      Acrylic Paint  91

      Acrylic Paint And Latex Paint  91

      Alcohol  961

      Baby Wipes  93

      Baking Soda  93

      Binder  93

      Bleeding  93

      Bleeding Through: Stains And Marks  93

      Blow-Dryer Or Heat Gun  94

      Bone Folder  94

      Buckling  94

      Canvas  94

      Charcoal  95

      Colour Pencil  95  Colour Pencils: Wax Vs Oil  95

      Colour Pencil: Wax Bloom  96

      Copyright  96

      Fixative  96

      Gelatin Plate  97

      Glue: What To Use?  97

      White School Glue  97

      Mod Podge  98

      Acrylic Medium  98

      Two Part Epoxy  Resin  98

      Super Glue  98

      Contact Cement  99

      Glue Not Adhering  99

      Glycerine  99

      Gum Arabic  100

      Heat Setting  100

      Isolation Coat  100

      Light-Fast  100

      Oil Vs Acrylic  101

      Paint Not Adhering  101

      Paper: Wood Based Vs Cotton And Other Fibres  102  Pigment  102

      Stretching Canvas  103

      Stretching Paper  103

      Tooth  104

      Toxicity  104

      Varnish  104

      Water Brush Pen  104

      Watercolour Ground  104

      Tools For Your Tool Box  105

      A Word Of Precaution  107

      Last Thoughts  108

      A Blurb About The Artist  110

      Other Products Available Through Robin Moulyn  111

      Bibliography  112

      Welcome to

      Homemade Art Supplies:

      A Survival Guide for Artists

      ––––––––

      As an artist myself for many years, I struggled with the high costs and availability of art supplies. I quickly realized that I was not the only one. This is a sad state of affairs for artistic expression. But I learned a very big lesson: 

      Resourcefulness  + Creativity = Amazing Art

      Throughout time, art supplies were only made available for the shaman and visionaries, and later on educated elite artists. Artist apprentices might have had access to some of these materials, however, they were limited due to financial cost, preparatory expense and accessibility. These resources were for the privileged few, not the public. Think of all the lost art, of all the people who were not able or allowed to express themselves artistically due to lack of materials. Think of what we have lost with controlled artistic expression of history and opinion of the various times due to limitation of art supplies.

      Fortunately, time has changed art and we have realized how art is important to the human soul. The age of consumerism has helped art develop and spread. There are many more options for creativity and products. Over time, different methods of expressions have led to innovation of materials. There has been a great deal of time and science spent on having artistic products endure aging, atmosphere, different applications and expanding colour options etc. Just the technological advances in controlling toxicity is one to be celebrated.

      However, there is still a financial limitation for the purchase of these abundant art materials for many people.

      My wish and hope is that this book will help to bridge the lack gap, provide you with ways to keep on creating art and expressing yourself using tools and supplies. There are many solutions with materials that are inexpensive and easily accessed at places like: your kitchen, junk drawer, hardware store, pharmacy, second-hand store, and local dollar store. Using products from any of these places can help you to create an abundance of different options for making art supplies. Lack, should never stop you from creating. This book will hopefully inspire you to create art and also create the methods and mediums necessary for your art.

      This book is also about what to do when art emergencies happen. Consider this book a possible solution when you have used up your supplies and there are no art stores open, or just don’t have them on hand or like me, live in a country where many products are simply not available. These recipes and ideas will help you to carry on and help you to keep in the flow of creation. Think about this book as a survival DIY (do it yourself) art guide.  This book will show you what to stock in your art supplies survival kit, how to use them and how to adapt them.

      Homemade art supplies might also help to give you an opportunity to sample a certain product, something similar to a commercial product that you would like to try, something that could inspire you or something would be useful for you. For example,  spray inks. These inks work beautifully to create wonderful backgrounds and effects. Spray inks are quite expensive. They are not something available to sample in the stores and not available in all locations. Therefore, I have included several recipes on how to create spray inks that are cost efficient and easy to make. You now have an opportunity to play with them. Because you now have experience with similar products, you might like to invest in professionally manufactured ones and compare. If you don’t love them, you have not invested as much as if you had bought them: you got to try them on for size.

      Many artists simply just go with the tried and true rather than waste money on a possibility. The recipes in this book are a much better option. So please continue to explore your potential and try new things. Be brave. You may find your new passionate process and recharge your art style, or get out of a creative block. Creation is not meant to be halted by limitations, styles, or  creative blocks. Art grows by expansion and experiences.

      This book is designed in such a way as to give suggestions for what are the requirements and limitations of your homemade art supplies. When I have given a suggested recipe, I will include the purpose of the components. Having this knowledge will help you to create these recipes to fit your own needs for example, a cooking recipe will include the purpose for eggs. Egg is

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