Well, sometimes you go through a two-day process, and it works, and you get some nice piccies to upload to your blog, and you feel like a very fine fellow. But sometimes you do something that doesn't quite come off. I decided to post photos of that anyway, as the reasons why I decided not to follow this up, at least for the moment, are also part of my process (or 'prah-sesss' as they say here in Chicago.) Over the weekend, I took one of the xeroxes of last week's Sharpie drawings, and coated it with a layer of Clear Tar Gel: That glistening you see is the layer of gel (which stinks, by the way: if you use this stuff, make sure you have adequate ventilation or you can close it up in its own room). I let it dry overnight, then I immersed the coated xerox for about 30 seconds in a tray of warm water: That loosened the paper fibres (or fibers, as they say in Chicago), enabling me to do the next stage: ... which was, to flip the thing over so that the dried acrylic skin was ...