Help! Paint just will not erase...

Darren

Darren

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Today i began the "meow" painting but had to stop after the first 10 minutes as i just cannot erase the paint to create highlights. I am using Createx Illustration colours (Black) and Harder & Steenbeck no.4 airbrush paper.

I have tried electric eraser, eraser pencils, blades and fibre pencils but none of those tools will remove any paint, when i watch various youtube videos, people using the Createx Illustration paints manage to erase it with no effort at all, it seems they barely touch the surface with an eraser pencil and it just comes off.

So whats the issue here? Is it the paint? or the paper? Or something else?
 
I’m not familiar with your paper so I guess that’s the issue, it works best on hard surfaces or synthetic paper, if your paper absorbs the paint you really can’t do anything with it
 
musicmacd said:
I’m not familiar with your paper so I guess that’s the issue, it works best on hard surfaces or synthetic paper, if your paper absorbs the paint you really can’t do anything with it
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Ah, ok, i will look into synthetic paper.
 
AndreZA said:
How much are you thinning the paint? Thin paint goes into the fibers and and not be erased. You can get some off but Illustration on #4 paper is a bit stubborn and you will not get it all clean.

Here is a test I did.

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I did not thin the paint at all, i was using it straight from the bottle. The white end of my pencil eraser was the only thing that slightly removed the paint (with ALOT of effort) just like in your test above. Clean white highlights are what i'm after, I guess i will have to try some synthetic paper then as that looks to give much better results.
 
Darren said:
I did not thin the paint at all, i was using it straight from the bottle. The white end of my pencil eraser was the only thing that slightly removed the paint (with ALOT of effort) just like in your test above. Clean white highlights are what i'm after, I guess i will have to try some synthetic paper then as that looks to give much better results.
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YUPO is what you are after or metal sheets/lamanate or Clayboard or Blair synthetic paper
 
musicmacd said:
YUPO is what you are after or metal sheets/lamanate or Clayboard or Blair synthetic paper
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After a quick look online Lana Vanguard synthetic paper is what i found easily available here in the UK so have ordered 10 small sheets to try. As far as i am aware it is very similar to the Yupo paper so hopefully will be ok.
 
Darren said:
After a quick look online Lana Vanguard synthetic paper is what i found easily available here in the UK so have ordered 10 small sheets to try. As far as i am aware it is very similar to the Yupo paper so hopefully will be ok.
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I think it could be better than YUPO from what others have said about it :)
Good luck
 
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