I had the idea, now I just needed the supplies. In Edinboro there were a lot of independent art stores near by and the school shop was set up with the fine arts department in mind. So when we were doing the newsprint project it wasn't so much an issue of finding newsprint as much as it was picking the right shade. There was 80% dark and 20% light, 60/40, 30/70, on and on. So I had planned on buying several different versions of newsprint.
The big stores however sell their paper by texture, with only a basic unscaled newsprint. I was afraid that the newsprint might not be dark enough to show the white marks and looked into other colored paper, but it would've been too difficult to draw on. Construction paper is too pulpy and could fray, while the glossy colored paper was usually just that, regular paper with color on top of it. If the colored paper tears (and it does easily) then you end up with a nasty white mark that would be hard to fix.
While I was there I also looked for tools to make the white ghost marks. I already had colored pencils, but I wanted a few different options to try. I found some white ink markers but couldn't find any of the white charcoal pencils I used before (Edinboro must have special ordered a lot of stuff just for bizarre assignments). The paint markers were on sale and also came in multiple points of thickness, which was a rare treat considering I was testing the new medium.
When I tried the white paint markers on the newsprint they made cleaner marks than the colored pencils and kept their opacity, which was more than enough for me to make the choice.
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