JrzyTmata wrote: 
That would make a nice mosaic

hey! I been mosaiced.

 super88dan wrote: 
It just flows for me

 Always tough to do mosaic.

hippiechick wrote: 

We are in the middle of what we call an Illustration Marathon... 26.2 illustrations in 30 days. (a little buffer for scheduling)
Check it out. I'm djk.

http://creamcityillustrators.com/

I just finished this today. It's entitled Happy Happy Joy Joy

I always wished that I could make "happy art" like some people (Mary Engelbreit) do, because I always felt like making art of people crying. This piece is a testament to how I created the space to make happy art. How I can now feel the true joy.

 

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 Proclivities wrote: 
When I worked at the art supply store in '92, we used to sell it by the sheet, right next to the rubylith and the Letraset. I did a mock up Christmas presentation for the first graphic design class I took, at the community college. No computers in that class.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
I haven't seen it in art stores for years, but Dick Blick has a short description of it.  They seem to only sell entire sets, but there must be other places where you could buy single sheets.  It's not an absorbent surface so inks sit atop it and take longer to dry.  Wet media can get a little streaky or blotchy on it, and oils from your fingers make spots on it, but you can paint on it with gouache or other opaque media.  I used to do packaging mock-ups with it a long time ago, and you can clean it with rubber cement thinner.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
I have used it to do mock ups, a very very long time ago.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I went looking on how to use it. didn't find anything.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
I think it was originally used by photographers and interior designers.  It's not really "colored" paper; it's "coated" paper - the color is only on one side - similar to the old Letraset PMS-color sheets, but the coating is thicker - more like paint than ink.

 hippiechick wrote: 
I never heard of it, so I went googling. it's still being produced and sold.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Thanks. I recently found a bunch of sheets of that Color-aid in an old portfolio of mine. They'd been in there since the early 1980s.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Great! Love that color aid paper, haven't seen that in years. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
incredible talent, my friend.

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 Coaxial wrote: 
Thank you. 

 Proclivities wrote: 
Outstanding.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Dang. 

 helenofjoy wrote: 

Thanks so much!

 hippiechick wrote:  Love this