Elizabeth Sanford

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #38: This is a preview of a new wall sculpture. I began by making some linear marks with diluted white acrylic ink on 300 lb. hot press watercolor paper. After this layer dried, I wet the paper and mixed Granulation Medium with various granulating watercolors, including Daniel Smith’s Sodalite Genuine, my favorite of their PRIMATEK series. The dark shape is a cutout that reveals part of the layer underneath.

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #37: I used a Japanese screw punch to punch out all the small circles. Here’s what it looks like:

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #36: This is a sneak preview of part of a origami flexicube that I’ll be sending off to an exhibition next month: it’s part of a skink’s head. I began with Permanent Masking Fluid to save the white lines; after it dried, I painted the ground with a mixture of Daniel Smith’s PRIMATEK mineral pigments and Granulation Medium. Next I painted the skink and used a damp piece of sponge to remove some of the paint from the white lines. The last step was adding stippling with a black Pitt pen.