- Zoffi Libélula
- 4 days ago
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Originally Posted on August 1, 2025
👩🏽🔬 - My Art Journey has been full of discoveries, and I've been documenting my successes and spectacular failures, often humorously.
For the moment, I'll simply list them here and provide more details later.
Making Aged Paper
Making Deliciously smelling Coffee Paper - Star Anise, Cloves, Cinnamon
Ink + Coffee Stained Paper Bad - Turns out Coffee staining OPENS up any sort of binding on the paper making it super absorbent. This is very bad for Ink.
How to make coffee stained paper Ink-Proof
Gelatin
Don't store in a room with A/C
Gum Arabic
Gum Arabic is a solid that behaves like a fucking liquid. AKA non-Newtonian fluid.
Gum Arabic GETS EVERYWHERE
Gum Arabic IS A GLUE
Acrylic Sealer
Don't use gloss Acrylic Sealer. Oh god no.
Undoing the Acrylic Sealer with more coffee because surprise - the smell does not go away
Mod Podge
Mod Podge is a glue and will stick your papers together
Adding Coffee to Mod Podge
Calligraphy Fun
Ink & Paint
Noodler's Ink
Rust Blood Ink
Accidental discoveries in paint creation
Ink + Modpodge
Modpodge + Acrylic Paint
Pill Containers
Calligraphy Scripts
Celtic?
Illuminated Letters
The Bible of Illuminated Letters
Where does one find some cow hide?
Book Binding
Turns out sewing paper is way more fun than sewing cloth