Sadie-thanks for your list of distress crayon features. I agree the use of "crayon" in their name is confusing. I was surprised about your comment regarding the Neocolor II loosing its color when really wet. They are so expensive I expected that the color would stay strong. Appreciate you sharing!
Tim and the other Ranger designer rarely make any type of comparisons to other products. Developing and testing new products takes immense time. It's is a slippery slope to make comparisons and potentially make an error when you know your own products far better than a large groups of other "similiar products". It begins to start sounding like a bad political campaign...I personally prefer that be left to folks who are not affiliated with the companies.
Ranger and some of the other ink companies have "secret" recipes or ingredients that are not shared with the general public.
Yupo paper is expensive...remember it is not paper...it is polypropylene-a plastic. I heard Ranger's 5x7 packets will have 10 sheet and probably a price point at about $10. Yupo sells their own same size pads and I believe it is in a similiar $8-$10 found in fine art stores. Sandy Allnock did 2-3 blog posts on it. It is not an easy surface to work on...I am anxious to see what techniques Tim is going to suggest on it. I have tried playing with alcohol inks and feel that it will take considerable work to gain the skills needed for successfully working on it. However Range is going to have a transparent Yupo for alcohol inks which I haven't seen yet.
I have looked at a few of Sandy's other periscopes and liked the general information about
Imagine Crafts glazes.. I will check out their site for some detailed video's on them.
Next: I have some microglaze on my desk that I am testing on various colorants. I want to check-out Sadie's post on her experience. Back to another thread for that topic.
Happy creative moments...Jan