Hand towel, lightly damp paper towels protect your work surface with a drop paper or brown paper bag to prevent accidental transfer of ink. If it has separated sheets, layer the three layers with the finishing page on bottom, the ink coated carbon paper ink side down and the image you wish to trace on top o that. Many times a tissue paper cover is also on top of the ink page layer that on last. Do not let the layered pages slip out of place to prevent smudging of the final image. But mostly i pored laboriously over every detail in the original image, endeavoring to replicate the image exactly on the canvas.

While it was artistically rewarding and ego gratifying, eliciting plenty of ooh's and aah's from everyone it was also intensively time consuming. By the time i learned about artist transfer paper, i had already proved to myself and others that i knew how to draw. I no longer needed to constantly prove my drawing skills with every single artwork that i made, so i felt comfortable transitioning to the use of artist graphite paper. Basically, artist graphite paper speeds up the art making process, allowing me more time to spend conceptualizing and creating new works of art. There is no doubt that drawing skills are fundamentally important for any artist. But once you get to the stage where you are comfortable with your skills, when you feel you really know how to draw, it's perfectly acceptable to use artist's tools such as graphite paper, the grid method or projectors.

Anyone can use graphite paper to trace an image, but what happens after that and even the tracing itself depends upon the skill level of the artist. More importantly, no one can create the vision that you see inside your head so it's up to you to put that brush to canvas and show the world what you see! here is an example of a 4 x 6 reference photo taped to a 5 x 7 wood panel, with graphite paper in between: jessica knapp peels away the graffito paper from a piece of pottery. from screenprinting to decals, there are many ways to transfer imagery onto pottery.

Theres a nifty commercial product out now, which acts kind of like a rice paper decal, only you can customize the image. Graffito paper, as its called, is kind of like the clay worlds equivalent to carbon paper. Basically, you lay the graffito paper onto your piece and trace any design you want over it.

Et voila! it is on your pot. if you’ve ever wanted to transfer designs or trace patterns onto a surface, help is here. Graffito paper, which is made by minnesota clay company, is the clay world equivalent of carbon paper, and can be used to transfer patterns, photocopies, or drawings to bisque ware using underglaze as ink. It’s essentially a 9 inch square paper substrate embedded with one of six underglaze colors: black, green, blue, teal, brown, and rose. The rose color can only be fired to cone 06 as it burns out at higher temperatures. The underglaze mixture applied to the sheets also contains wax, which helps bind it to the paper and to bisqueware. The sheets are flexible, and can be used on curved surfaces as well as flat tiles or plates.

Like applying any other paper pattern to a clay vessel, there are limits to the flexibility and coverage over a round surface, so, depending on your form, it may be necessary to trim or dart the graffito paper or apply the pattern in sections. Experiment with cutting plain paper to fit your forms first before trimming your image and the graffito paper to size. Once you have a pattern selected, cut it to size, and make registration marks on it that extend to the edge of the paper. Attach the graffito paper to the back of your pattern or image using painters tape, which adheres well and is also is easier to remove without leaving residue or damaging your paper pattern figure 1. Either side of the graffito paper transfers the underglaze, but most of the tests shown were done with the darker side laid against the piece as it seemed more saturated with the color. Once the image is in place, extend the registration marks from the paper to the piece see figure 2. Using a slightly dull pencil, ball point pen or the larger ball end of a sgraffito tool, trace over your pattern, pressing firmly figure 2.

I tested used a sgraffito tool shown in figure 2 , a pencil, and a ball point pen. Using the pencil or pen gives you the benefit of knowing where you left off with a line, while a sgraffito tool keeps the original image legible for longer, allowing for more tracings from the same print out. Be careful to keep the sgraffito tool in constant contact with the piece while you work, so as not to miss an area. Cardboard equal size or larger than carbon paper place the cardboard on a hard, flat surface. The cardboard with serve as the bottom layer to prevent the carbon from making a copy onto the surface below.

Use a pencil or a pen to write on the original by pressing down firmly to make sure the carbon is transferred. If you are tracing a picture, simply place the picture on top of the paper, and trace it with a pencil. Then place all three sheets into the typewriter as if they were one sheet, and begin typing. More particularly, the invention relates to dry erase boards which comprise a multilayer film adhered to the face side of a chalk or dry erase board and wherein the multilayer film has a clear, dry erasable layer. Background of the invention dry erase marking boards are available which may be marked with dry wipe markers, also known as dry erase markers or dry erasable markers.

The dry erase marking boards generally comprise a rigid substrate such as a fiber board or metal having a surface coated with a smooth, hard material such as a polymer, enamel, etc. The surface coating is one that is capable of receiving and releasably retaining a marking composition. The marking compositions typically comprise a solvent based ink which dries to a powder after it has been applied to a surface, and the powder will adhere to the erasable surface for an extended period of time without significantly flaking or otherwise peeling away from the dry erasable writing surface.

However, after the ink has dried to a powder, it may be readily wiped off from the dry erasable writing surface with a dry cloth or dry eraser. No solvent is required in the erasing, and hence, these markers are known as dry wipe or dry erasable. Dry erase marking boards have a number of advantages over previously employed chalk boards, and the use has steadily increased in recent years. Dry erase marker boards provide a high contrast dark on light image, and can be used in combination with various colored inks to produce readable, high contrast displays. Also, dry erase marker boards produce significantly less dust than do chalk boards.