It also occurred to me that each design would look a little different when printed on different types of paper. So I scrounged up some of the old fancy papers we've had lying around for years and printed out 3 different designs, one on Fargo Primera clay-coated paper, one on 24# (I think) regular bond, and one on the back side of a piece of paper with a preprinted border. The last one is fairly grainy and somewhat gray in color.
So here's the one I colored on regular 20# paper. Looks okay as a digital graphic but the original has sides all curled up because the Posca pens are too liquid for such flimsy substrate.
I tried coloring on the clay-coated paper with colored pencils; not a howling success. All the colors are very pale. I added some darker color with Prismacolor fine line markers and they were not an improvement. The texture they made was very scratchy and unattractive, and when I tried blending them with a Q-tip, they mostly just rubbed off. I'm going to take the paint pens (Posca pens) to it next.
All this is fine, even though I don't much like the results of the clay-coated paper much. This is all meant to be a learning experience so I can see which media - pencil, pen, marker, paint - works best with which substrate. Maybe I'll try a fresco on a wall next. No, not really.
I have to argue with the closing point in the Joys of Wealth and privilege. When it says that only the wealthy can afford beauty. it seems shortsighted and fails to take into account that everyone looks at things differently. While the wealthy may only find expensive things beautiful, Those of us with less advantages have to look at life much more closely have learned to find beauty in the few things that we do have. A rich person may walk by with their nose in the air while a poor one notices the things around them and would find beauty in a tiny flower that has pushed it's way up through the broken corner of a sidewalk paver. As it's been said many time3s before. Beauty is where you find it.
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