I am a potter and a printmaker. I like etching and linocut but nowadays I make silkscreen prints and sometimes print directly into my moleskine sketchbook. Last week I was printing some T-shirts and suddenly decided to print the same design on the cover of my Japanese folded Moleskine with the metallic water-based ink. This Japanese album will be used for the International Moleskine Exchange Project, group Moly_X_17.
I have also printed self-made water slide-off decals with the coat of arms. I thought the black cover of a moleskine sketchbook was too dark for black outlines and a helmet without a background. So I have painted it first with a spray can, the kind that street artists use for graffiti.
by Katya Taganova
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Very nice! I would like to emboss/deboss the covers of my journals. Anyone know how to do this, ideally cheaply? What tools are needed?
If you can find some old daisy wheel type writers that have the ‘fonts’ on a wheel, you can break off the letters and tape them into a row. I did it and they looked great!
Hey Katya, Very nice! I have been wanting to paint on my Moleskine, and have asked questions in forums about what type and brand of paint will work best. I didn’t get a lot of answers. Would you like to share what type and brand of paint you use and how you prepare the surface?
Like your design!
For silk-screen printing I use Nazdar 9500 Series AquaPrint II Screen Ink.