{"id":34,"date":"2008-11-16T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T01:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2018-02-24T12:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:51:13","slug":"stencilling-with-colored-pencils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Stencilling with Colored Pencils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stencils2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"stencils2\" src=\"http:\/\/marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stencils2-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stencils2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/stencils2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> I like to decorate mats around paintings and I discovered that using Colored Pencils with Rebecca Baer&#8217;s Petite and Elegant stencils work wonderfully.&nbsp; A few things to be aware of.&nbsp; Prismacolor pencils are soft wax based to enable lovely layering and blending.&nbsp; As such it sometimes produces a not so sharp line, especially on mats that have been custom painted with acrylic paint.&nbsp; I found that the less expensive brands, such as Prang, or even Crayola, work better in these instances.&nbsp; As always TEST, TEST, TEST.&nbsp; In a pinch put a specific pencil in the freezer for a while to make it less &#8216;soft&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>With a little practice you will learn what works for you but I am totally thrilled with the results.&nbsp; I used a regular sized stencil on this painted mat.&nbsp; I think it would have been better with Prismacolor Verithin pencils or a lesser brand but it was my first attempt and I still like it.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/rebeccabaer.com\/products.php?cat=54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebecca&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to decorate mats around paintings and I discovered that using Colored Pencils with Rebecca Baer&#8217;s Petite and Elegant stencils work wonderfully.&nbsp; A few things to be aware of.&nbsp; Prismacolor pencils are soft wax based to enable lovely layering and blending.&nbsp; As such it sometimes produces a not so sharp line, especially on mats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colored-pencils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marianjackson.com\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}