I tried clayboard with pencil and found it to be far too smooth to take the graphite properly and I ended up making a mess trying to get things a bit darker without needing 6B+ pencils, is there a way to prepare it to have a bit more tooth?
Our Aquabord is a more textured version of Claybord and our Encausticbord has a suede-like texture that is between them. We do see and have worked with artists who are doing excellent graphite work on Claybord, generally using HB. Feel free to email us at bords@ampersandart.com
I desperately need to know all this too. I hate to waste time learning the hard way by trial and error. I have a commission to do right now and I want to switch from drawing on art paper to doing it on claybord "If" I can get more information asap.
@@joycehandersonfriends3225 I've found that sanding out slightly their aquabord works quite well for pencil work and gives it enough smoothness to not be distracting while maintaining the tooth required for pencil. That said, from my experience you might want to start with harder pencil grades and work into the dark as working even in HB to begin with produces some very deep darks which you might not want in the early-ish stages. They've also recommended their encaustic panels to me. I bought a few but I haven't got a chance to test them yet, but there seems to be quite a nice balance of tooth and just enough smoothness without needing Sanding so you may want to look at those too. Hopefully this helps you a bit.
The best surface for pen and ink! I use rapidograph pens and use a bit of pounce powder on the surface.
It's a magic board, my favorite surface ever, I couldn't do art anymore without it.
Thanks so much for saying so!
I tried clayboard with pencil and found it to be far too smooth to take the graphite properly and I ended up making a mess trying to get things a bit darker without needing 6B+ pencils, is there a way to prepare it to have a bit more tooth?
Our Aquabord is a more textured version of Claybord and our Encausticbord has a suede-like texture that is between them. We do see and have worked with artists who are doing excellent graphite work on Claybord, generally using HB. Feel free to email us at bords@ampersandart.com
I desperately need to know all this too. I hate to waste time learning the hard way by trial and error. I have a commission to do right now and I want to switch from drawing on art paper to doing it on claybord "If" I can get more information asap.
@@joycehandersonfriends3225 I've found that sanding out slightly their aquabord works quite well for pencil work and gives it enough smoothness to not be distracting while maintaining the tooth required for pencil. That said, from my experience you might want to start with harder pencil grades and work into the dark as working even in HB to begin with produces some very deep darks which you might not want in the early-ish stages. They've also recommended their encaustic panels to me. I bought a few but I haven't got a chance to test them yet, but there seems to be quite a nice balance of tooth and just enough smoothness without needing Sanding so you may want to look at those too. Hopefully this helps you a bit.
😯 Incredible 😍. I am on the point to give a go for it!
Would the clapboard be a suitable surface for gold leaf or would your gesso panel be better? Thanks.
Claybord would work great! That would be our recommendation.
@@AmpersandArt Thanks....And sorry I didn't catch the spellcheck version of your product...(I did mean claybord)
@@billguild2147 Understandable and easy to miss. Thanks!
So alcohol ink works on this?
Alcohol inks and Claybord are a great combination!