Okay, so I bought one of those Chartpak blender markers last year when I was attempting transfers. Since it didn’t go so well with the first trial, I gave up on the technique and worked with wintergreen oil. I’m starting a linocut for a book and wanted to shortcut some of the drawing. I’ve done gel medium transfers as well as wintergreen oil and found both to be either finicky or disastrous when it came to the printing. I’ll argue that those failures could have been my own fault, but I decided to give the Chartpak blender another go. It worked pretty well. I used a spoon to help the transfer along, so that might have been the secret all along. The one part that annoyed me however was the marker’s juice was almost depleted by the end of what you see in the photo. I hardly used the maker, maybe three or four times. Kind of wasteful financially in my opinion. Oh, also the marker is very fume-y, even in a spacious room. Gag.
Anyway, I guess I would only recommend this for small projects, sketcbhooks, and stuff like this.
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Neill Scheiter added these pithy words on Dec 07 10 at 2:31 pmMegan – First off, awesome work… Nice, blog too! I came across this morning and had to write something. I think i remember seeing your stuff a while back when i was in Springfield.
As for the blender marker, I think it depends on the right mix of materials for good results. (i.e. paper, ink, printer, etc) I’ve been experimenting for some time and use it in my architectural work. I’ve got some sketches i did at Drury for my senior thesis project that you might be interested in.
Megan Frau added these pithy words on Dec 07 10 at 6:07 pmOh man, somebody who has seen my work from Springfield, that’s gotta be weird seeing the work now. Thanks for liking the stuff! I haven’t used blender markers in quite some time. I’ve kind of given up on transfer solutions and stick to more photo-base printing processes with silkscreen and intaglio. It seems to work best for me. =)
