"Not well Brian... Not well"
I ruined the pins!
Yup. The glaze smeared and feathered the gouache!! I can’t even gift them to people! I am going to try again with thinned down acrylics because I am NOT wasting my Turner acrylic gouache unless these things sell, and AGAIN, the clay pin craze was like THREE fucking years ago. As usual, I am WAY too late. “Day late and a dollar short” is the main theme of my life.
So I am starting all over pin-wise. It’s not great. I wasted pin backs and clay on a failed experiment. And WHY DIDN’T I STOP WHEN THE FIRST PIN GOT FUCKED? I don’t know! Because I’m dumb. And I was tired. And I thought maybe the first one was a fluke. But then why not stop after two???? Again, dumb as fuck. I shouldn’t have tried it out on a Friday. My brain is fried on Fridays. I am disappointed in myself and I feel bad about ruining them. And of course it’s just a huge delay I didn’t need.
Have something I maybe didn’t ruin. It’s another bookmark done with marker and colored pencil.
I have doubled down and made MORE ins! In the meantime I haven’t been posting on Insta since the ins failed. In the meantime I have mailed THIS! An actual commission!
This is just a crop of the piece. It was too big to fit into the scanner so I took a lot of pics.
The usual caveat that it looked better in person holds true. My cameras are ass, my scanner is ass half the time because I have a hard time adjusting the scan in software. What doesn’t show up any of the photos on either my camera or phone camera, is that there are little yellow dots in the center of the flowers on the slug. I am super pleased with the glowing stars too. They really look good.
I’ll send pin updates soon. Hopefully it won’t be too long until I have a finished product.
Too bad about the pins. Gouache is tricky that way—picks up easily. 😞
Sometimes if something is bleeding, you can try spraying several very light coats of fixative on first. But that only goes so far if you are disturbing the surface a lot with liquids.
Love the artwork for the bookmark and commission. Have you tried taking your art outside to photograph—not in direct sunlight? That might help with an older camera (super bright lighting).