The Posterdiscussion in the Stand by Thread brought me to the idea for a new tutorial. I made some testprints from the new FO4 Posters to ajust color and brightness and with one of this we will have some fun now.
TUTORIAL 03: Paperweathering the Deltadog style.Method: Weathering of paper
Materials: Laserprinted Poster on standard 80g/m2 Printerpaper, Coffee, Sandpaper grainsize 60, Sandingblock from cork, wooden stick with clued on Sandpaper grainsize 120, tweezers, papertowel
Step 1: Print you poster on standard white paper. A laserprinter is essential for that, inkprinter isn`t useable!
Step 2: Make a very strong coffee. If the coffee would kill you instandly by heartattack, its the right amount of powder. I´m using instand powder for that, but an espresso would do the same job. The advantage of the instantpowder is you can better dose your color. The coffee should be lukewarm.
Step 3: Dip the poster round about 10-20 seconds in the coffee and soak the excess coffee from the surface in a papertowel. After this let it dry. I put my poster under my Warming lamp to fasten it up.
Step 4: The intermediary result! A pergament like stury weathered poster. If you are an even bigger lazy nut than me, your poster is finished and you can stop reading, gratz you have a finished weathered poster!
The more ambitious people would follow me to the next step please!
Step 5: Lay your Grainsize 60 Sandpaper flat on your table with the poster on top and the print downwards. Then press with your cork sanding block the poster on the sandpaper with a good amount of power.
Step 6: Let your poster lay flat on the Sandpaper. Put your sanding Block beneath the Sandpaper to make the underground a bit flexibel (The reason why the Sanding block should be out of cork). Now use a wooden coffeestirrer with onclued 120 Grain Sandpaper, or like in my case an old single use Nail file from a motel. Sand down carefully the paper on the areas you want to weathering the poster. Normally the edges are the most damaged parts, but some holes in the middle are great as well.
Step 7: This step depends a bit on the personal taste. I´m dipping the poster now a second time in the coffee. It`s recommended to use a second mix of coffee for this step with less powder in it or thin down the first mix, because the paper is thin and sanded now and will soak more pigments as before. Let it try again. If you want your poster brighter/or sunbleached, don`t dip a second time!
Step 8: The result!
Happy Coffeeparty guys!
Greetz Delta
14 December 2013, 10:32:06 AM
