From: Ken Bawcom (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2008 - 19:00:01 PST
Canola oil will never dry, nor will any ordinary vegetable oil. Any oil
will lift any oil soluble marking pen ink from the clear leader. I am a
woodworker, and have about 40 years experience doing custom finishes,
using all sorts of plastics, varnishes, and oils. There are oils for
furniture finishing which will dry, but they would take many days, or
even weeks, to dry to the extent that you could roll them up on a reel
of film, and maybe not stick. They would also lift the marker.
For the effect you are trying to do, I think your best bet is to use
spray cans of CLEAR (not matte/satin) WATER-based varnish, to spray
between layers of marking pen. Go easy, or you will clog up the
sprocket holes. Let it dry, then put on your next layer of marker.
After that dries, try pinching film to film, to see if it sticks,
before you roll up the film. Even then, I would keep the film well
ventilated for several days.
Throw that canola oil away. Nasty stuff, even for cooking. It's a
variant of rape seed oil. Use olive oil or peanut oil, both tasty, and
high in monounsaturates. :)
Ken B.
Quoting Benjamin Kochman <email suppressed>:
> I'm in an Experimental Film Class at the University of Arizona (Nicole
> Koschmann's class, if anyone knows her) and we're making a handmade
> film. We've
> decide to use canola oil to try to create a "floating effect" with
> the images.
> We're taking clear leader and drawing on them with fancy felt tip
> pens from an
> art store. Then, we put on a layer of canola oil, with the intention
> of putting
> another layer of animation to "float" on top of that. The canola oil,
> however,
> doesn't seem to want to "dry", and anything we put on top of the oil
> just kind
> of bleeds around. To compound our problems, the canola oil is making
> the first
> layer of animation bleed around too, leaving us with nothing but gradually
> fading smears on our clear leader.
>
> Is this what canola oil is supposed to do to the film? Would using a
> different
> type of oil or pen or paint work better? What's the proper way to apply the
> oil, just dabbing it or taking the whole film and dropping it in a bucket of
> oil? Any advice would be wonderful. Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
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