Sunday, April 20, 2008

In search of a Marker for Visual Journaling

I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Altered Book for the round robin I am participating in. I was hoping I would have it to work in this weekend but it was not to be. Since I had anticipated working in the Altered Book and I was in an altering mindset I decided to work a little more with my visual journal.
Everything is working out wonderful with this process with the exception of what I am writing in the journal with. I am trying to find a good marker to write on my work. I do have some gel pens that work for some things but for the writing in my journal I prefer black and I am going through black pens like crazy this weekend. If anyone out there knows of something wonderful please tell me. My surface is usually painted, collaged, and has somewhat of a finish on it. I like to write over the top of things, sometimes paint over the top of the writing so it has to be a permanent marker that I can put goo over without it smearing. Another thing that is extra, extra important to me is......it has to be ultra fine tipped. This seems to be where I run into my problem as most of the markers that seem to do the trick are wide tipped which I just don't really care for as much. I also don't really like brush tip either. If anyone has any ideas please let me know and I will give it a try. Here are a couple of pages that I did this weekend. The pages are just sections really.My journal will not fit in my scanner because of the binder on it so I can't get the whole page. The first one with fine point markers (it actually took 3 because they stopped working for me which is why I am searching for something new).

This one I used a wider tip on and it continued to work for the whole picture but I also want to add some finer writing to this and can not do it with the wide tipped pen. I really am enjoying this process but the pen/marker dilemma is really starting to frustrate me. Hopefully someone out there will be able to give me some guidance.

5 comments:

Wood n' Whimsy said...

Hi Sue, as always, love your stuff. Keep it up! God Bless, Celene

Mary said...

Lily, I LOVE it! Just gorgeous. Maybe you want to go to a scrapbook store and demo a few different kinds of pens, if you've gone some places near you. The sharpies come in medium point, but are probably too thick for what you want to do. I know what you mean about the paper surface ~ some pens just won't write on papers that have a coating.

Keep up the great work!

~Mary~

Veronica said...

These are fantastic. I love them

Linda Blondheim said...

Your work is charming and lovely.
Have you tried the Pilot precise pens? I don't know if they would work but they are permanant ink pens.

Love,
Linda
www.lindablondheimartnotes.blogspot.com

deborah said...

try the dick blick catalog. it is on line at dickblick.com . there are at least three companies that have different widths - the "zig memory" is esp made for scrap booking and is suppose to be "waterproof, fadeproof and non-bleeding". good luck!
deb