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So sorry about the tape. But this is beautiful! I love your bubbles and those pearls. 
The hair is amazing. ALL of it is excellent, just filled with detail. I keep looking at it all over, and it's just expertly done. Great job!
What we all need is a "delicate" tape that is actually delicate. Hmmpph!
The hair is amazing. ALL of it is excellent, just filled with detail. I keep looking at it all over, and it's just expertly done. Great job! What we all need is a "delicate" tape that is actually delicate. Hmmpph!
Jo Castillo
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Awww, Joe, she is so sweet and perfectly done. Your class is going well!!
Vivien
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Beautiful pastel work Joe! I think all pastel artists have done that with the tape, at some time. I know Ive left the tape on my Canson MiTeintes paper too long, many times, with that result!
jmfletch
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Thanks for sharing the pain Viv.
Sylwia J-D
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Beautiful pastel drawing Joe. You need to be very careful with the tape. 
jmfletch
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Wish you had planted that thought 2 days ago.Beautiful pastel drawing Joe. You need to be very careful with the tape.
jmfletch
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Thank you Aylin. Really appreciate so much support and encouragemen.I think this is impeccable. Absolutely a giant "WOW!" Excellent work Joe!
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Thanks CaliAnn. Appreciate the support.Beautiful painting - and cute as all heck!
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Drafting tape.
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Interesting! I buy the purple or blue stuff in the painting departments of big box places - is drafting tape much different from these other tapes?
Enyaw
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I use the green from the dollar store .. one thing I did learn was pull toward the edge of the paper and not from the edge. If taped on top pull your tape upwards lightly and if down pull downward and left is left and right it right. If you come down on the edge you pick up fibers and the paper peels .. works for me but I take my tape off once the painting is done which is same day .. hours in fact.
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Drafting tape - Wikipedia
It releases pretty easily from paper in my experience. In my job in the darkroom of an aerial photography, we used it on the face of photos that were to be cut into "mosaics" and then secured by strong mylar tape on the backside. It was low-tack and never pulled up any part of the photos. (What we called "mosaics" was a way of trying to pattern-match features on the ground. The terrain was flown in stereo by - ideally - flying in overlapping lines at the same altitude. Nine x nine inch negatives.)
It's kind of expensive :-(
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Thank you for this! Expensive can be okay, because the price of certain art papers is also expensive. It's annoying to finish a work and then see some peeling/tearing from the freaking tape.Drafting tape - Wikipedia
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It releases pretty easily from paper in my experience. In my job in the darkroom of an aerial photography, we used it on the face of photos that were to be cut into "mosaics" and then secured by strong mylar tape on the backside. It was low-tack and never pulled up any part of the photos. (What we called "mosaics" was a way of trying to pattern-match features on the ground. The terrain was flown in stereo by - ideally - flying in overlapping lines at the same altitude. Nine x nine inch negatives.)
It's kind of expensive :-(
(An aerial photographer?!? You're soul cousins with my husband.)
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I remember looong ago, perhaps 20 years, I could find some double-sided adhesive tapes msanufactured by "Tombow" with one side fully adhesive and the other one slightly adhesive, like the Post-it yellow note papers. This tape (5-6 mm wide) was in small plastic dispensers same as those of the white correcting tape for office documents. This kind of tape could be a solution. I don't find it lately and don't know if it can be available.
I remember well that there were then 2 types available: permanent and temporary.
I remember well that there were then 2 types available: permanent and temporary.
