Susie Monday

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The art I make is the result of a life-long love of pattern, texture and color. How I teach is a skill honed by experience (I started teaching creative arts to younger kids when I was 12). After earning a B.A. in Studio Arts from Trinity University, I helped lead an internationally recognized educational foundation, designed curriculum exhibits for schools and other institutions, wrote and edited for a major daily newspaper, opened the San Antonio Children's Museum and then, a dozen years ago, took the scary but essential (for me) leap to become a fulltime artist and art teacher.

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    Tuesday
    Aug102010

    More About Dura-Lar

    DateTuesday, August 10, 2010 at 08:15AM

     

    Several emails and messages have asked me about Dura-Lar. Here's my source for this wet-media film. See the previous post for one way to use it! Grafix is the company.

     
    WET MEDIA DURA-LAR FILM
    Grafix Wet Media Dura-Lar is specially coated to accept paints, inks and markers. This clear polyester film works well as a surface for planning painting compositions, as a painting surface, student brushwork practice and printmaking. Wet medias used will not bead, chip or run. Simply wipe with a damp cloth to reuse again!
     
                                             See Wet Media Dura-Lar in action, check out
                                             this online tutorial and video demo.



    Grafix | 5800 Pennsylvania Ave. | Maple Heights, OH 44137 | www.grafixarts.com

     

    You can also use other films through your inkjet printer and acheive similar results, but with more beading and fuzziness -- a nice effect sometimes. Here are a few of the things I've tried that work more or less for this transfer technique:

    pocket protectors

    the back side (shiny side) of inkjet transperancy film (this is pretty close to the Dura-Lar)

    contact paper

    the paper backing from stick-on labels

    My general theory is if it's 8.5 by 11 inches I will try it through my copier/printer all-in-one (it's an HP older model). I usually put a strip of masking tape on the leading edge to help the copier grab the plastic (or fabric, or whatever).

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