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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