Collage Tip for the day...

A friend recently told me that if your statement rhymes people are more likely to take it as truth... so did it work?? hehehee

Brayer your first layer... or in non-rhyming terms: Use a roller on your collage backgrounds to make them crisp, smooth and touch ably smooth. Because lets face it warpy gluey background papers just isn't pretty!

Sounds obvious doesn't it? Yet it's an easy step missed especially when your papers have adhered a'ok. However if you roller over the surface they sharpen into life! Firmly rolling the surface ensures complete and even adhesion pushing out air bubbles or glue pools.

Tips on this tip :)

• Keep a brayer just for glueing. Any glue that gets stuck onto your lovely clean ink brayers will ruin them for future ink application.
• If you are going to be appling ink, dye or paint washes over your background be aware that any transference of glue to your background surface will act as a resist - this may or may not be desirable for your art outcome.
• Brayer from the center of your work outwards so any airbubbles are pushed to the edge.

Edit to add: Brayer while your glue is still wet.

~Kathleen

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