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Turpenoid is just safer than turpentine. Turpentine does give a different quality to the drawings, but I just do not want to breathe the fumes. I have the turpenoid working for me the way I want it to.
I have not found a way to get around the glass and frames yet. I just spent over $3000 framing for my show coming up. Two of the big drawings will be going into a juried national show and then the others in another show. It was going to be a solo but letting a young artist put in a few photographs. Giving back or should I saying paying forward.
I have tried the litho on canvas but do not like the results. I have been floating these under glass. But as you know anything with pencil or graphite gets ruined if one person touches. So far all of those drawings I do are under glass.
I would like to keep this talk going and maybe between the two of us we could figure something out.
Emily

Thanks. They are all sizes from small to the size of a sheet of rag mat board.
They are not graphite, but they are litho crayon and turpenoid. Something I learned in college and have used off and on over the years. I probably have about 80 or more of that series at the moment and still working on it. I have several ideas in the works to make them even larger.
Emily