The April 2010 Fan Art Battle

Thanks all I tried to think up some way to artificially age the tape so it looked like it had been up for years but I couldn't think of any. *shrug*

Try this - it might work ok:

If you have a tan shirt, take some tape and stick it to the shirt. When you peel it off, it should pick up a bit of the shirt fuzz with it, which should dull the look a bit. You may have to experiment with darker color shirts/pants/whatever to get the color right, and to see how much you can do before you totally cover up all the sticky stuff.

This trick is what we'd do for a drafting page (back before the computer cadd stuff) if you had masking tape instead of drafting tape - it will pick up some of the "fuzz" and make the tape less sticky, like drafting tape is, so it wouldn't tear your drawing when you remove it from your drafting board. but since you pick up some of the material, it should tint the tape a bit, too.

Hmmm, interesting idea, kind of moot now though. Taking the tape off would probably ruin the pic - the construction paper I bought was shockingly thin!

Maybe something to try for your next refrigerator piece!


And they really don't make stuff like they used to.... <wistful sigh>