{"id":1823,"date":"2018-06-21T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsallmalarkey.com\/staging\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2020-03-16T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T16:24:29","slug":"texture-and-thermography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsallmalarkey.com\/staging\/2018\/06\/21\/texture-and-thermography\/","title":{"rendered":"Texture and Thermography"},"content":{"rendered":"

So remember when I got all excited about my embossing powders and was proud of my spider and butterfly<\/a>? I then did up a bunch of sketches that sat there collecting dust while I ran around town trying to convince people to vote for me. Now that the election is over, I have spent the last week and a half turning them into what they were supposed to be. Also, despite the fact that the embossing powders themselves think they are embossing, it is really a totally different process. Apparently printing with powders is called thermography<\/a>. Who knew? I am learning all the time, and now have more research to do–because these are fun to play with!<\/p>\n

I started by making companion pieces to the two I had already done. Because if you do a pair then it is deliberate, not a random experiment, right? Exactly.<\/p>\n

Here they are:<\/p>\n

\"Garden<\/a> \"Thermography<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Thermography<\/a> \"Lycorea<\/a><\/p>\n

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The thing about doing the butterflies like this, is that it really focuses on the huge amount of variation. So then I got excited and decided to do a series based on my butterfly collection, taking out the color and highlighting the shapes and the patterns. Apparently I really am<\/em> a bug person, because I am SO excited by these! Each is about 5×5 on a 9×9 piece of paper with lots of petal and plant bit inclusions. Framed the same and hung together like this, really does make those variations stand out, doesn’t it? I am so pleased with how they turned out! Of course if I had sensibly done just ink drawings, or paint outlines, these would have all been very simple and fast to do. However, why do it the easy way when there is a more complex and time consuming process available? I am in love with the texture that thermography<\/a> provides, and you don’t get that with a simple ink or paint sketch.<\/p>\n

\"Thermography<\/a>
Butterfly collection
Thermography
9×9 each<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here they all are individually, because then you can at least see a little<\/em> bit of the texture and the inclusions in the scans.<\/p>\n

\"Diaethria<\/a>
Diaethria clymena
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Heliconius<\/a>
Heliconius erato
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Siproeta<\/a>
Siproeta epaphus
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Archaeoprepona<\/a>
Archaeoprepona demophoon
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Callicore<\/a>
Callicore felderi
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Heraclides<\/a>
Heraclides androgeus
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Callicore<\/a>
Callicore cynosura
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Colobura<\/a>
Colobura annulata
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Metamorpha<\/a>
Metamorpha elissa
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Napeocles<\/a>
Napeocles jucunda
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Heraclides<\/a>
Heraclides astyalus
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hamadryas<\/a>
Hamadryas laodamia
Thermography
9×9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n