VIDEO: The Beauty of Black & White Prints

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My sister and I took one of the best classes I've ever taken with one of his idols - Edward Tufte. If you have never read his first book, it's worth every penny. Completely changed the way I looked at data and changed life in general, honestly. Being able to communicate visually obviously is important to me. But his knowledge on the topic is amazing. 

Anyway, I've never forgotten one thing he said in that class, because we took it at about the time the iPhone came out, with its hoopla over screen resolution. He said there is no higher resolution image than black text on a white page. No screen in the world can duplicate that. So fascinating.

So today I thought I'd create my prints with only black and white paint. I always forget how beautiful these prints are because it's so comfortable to do colorful things. 

I started with this stencil, this die, and a little stack of rainbow glitter paper. I used my 5x7 Gel Press and Dina Wakley black and white paints. Since this witch die is a negative space die, I cut it out with my circle infinity dies. 

For some of the other prints I used this beautiful stencil. (Use LydiaFan10 for 10% off).

This version is white paint picked up with black paint - same stencil.

Aren't they fun and almost 3D? You can see how I made them in this video.

Here are all the supplies I used today.

Gel Press 5 x 7 REUSABLE GEL PRINTING... [ SSS ] Rattan - A Colorful Life Designs [ CLD ] Split Bubbly Flourish Stencil - A... [ CLD ] Witch - Slim Line Die Cutting System... [ PFS ] Circle Infinity Dies (H) [ HA ] Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE 1OZ Media... [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger BLACK 1OZ Media... [ SSS ] Memory Box FROSTED GLITTER 6x6 Paper... [ SSS ] Speedball Soft Rubber Brayer - 4'' [ BLIC ] Amazon.com : Hammermill 102467 Copy... [ AMZUS | AMZUS ] MISTI Stamping Tool [ MSP | SSS | ELH | MFT ] Absorber - Synthetic Cleaning Cloth [ AMZUS ] Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer... [ AMZUS ]

Got big plans for the weekend? I am going to catch up on Dare to Get Dirty and try to do a little organizing. I have a very fun post coming tomorrow morning that you won't want to miss! :)

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