AN IMPORTANT WORD ABOUT INK JET COPIES. (must be ink jet.) Please use the correct paper as it is crucial to your success with the inkjet transfer technique. Pigment and/or archival inks usually don’t transfer, and the technique doesn’t work with good photo paper. You want to make your copies cheap ink, and the cheapest of the cheapest, worst of the worst, glossy photo paper. I strongly recommend you use Jet Print mulitproject paper available at Walmart in the office supply section. We are exploiting the flaws in a cheap product to make this technique work.
A Bit of Advice on Choosing a Topic: You want a topic with both room to maneuver and ooomph. Meaning, the topic should be broad enough that page content can be derived from several ways. And, you want a topic that generates deeper feelings in you. For example, I made a sketchbook that was a reaction to 9/11 but it was my reaction on several levels- a human being, a mother, a woman in the middle of a divorce- but all about 9/11. Your topic needn’t be so painful, but it should have depth. I have a sketchbook in progress on change- I’m undergoing scads of life change right now- a third child, a move, sharing my heart/home/life with a partner after having been on my own- loads of positive, ambivalent, and negative feelings to mine there! Think gritty rather than pretty. Think rich, thick, loads of content to mine for nuggets for later use.
Need to contact LK? Her email is lorikay.ludwig@sru.edu and her phone number is 724-473-9184.