I’ve been fooling around with stamps a bit more and have stared playing with sheets of thin foam. Its great to work with and easy to cut into stamps. It can also be used to make printing blocks in the same way as meat trays; it can be engraved with a ballpoint pen. Here are…
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Goofing around with stamps
Hey Sarai, how’s this for something attractive from the mundane? I used to love making linoblock prints, but found the linoleum itself to be rather costly. Stamps are great fun, too, but the really nice ones are bloody expensive at around $20 Cdn or thereabouts – that’s two containers of milk, ten pounds of apples…
More about the book and its construction…
Basic materials used throughout: covers – super-heavy Pellon stabiliser pages – medium-weight Pellon stabiliser cotton fabrics, mostly, with the odd bit of silk acrylic fabric paints – Pebeo Setacolor with a few touch-ups from Tulip Pearl paints. I often used my calligraphy dip pens for lettering with pearlescent Pebeo paints, watered down slightly. metallic threads…
More about the book and its construction…
Basic materials used throughout: covers – super-heavy Pellon stabiliser pages – medium-weight Pellon stabiliser cotton fabrics, mostly, with the odd bit of silk acrylic fabric paints – Pebeo Setacolor with a few touch-ups from Tulip Pearl paints. I often used my calligraphy dip pens for lettering with pearlescent Pebeo paints, watered down slightly. metallic threads…
Book Finished!
Finally finished the book. Phew! It’s a nice little thing – fits comfortably into a hand. I’m quite please, overall. A good inital effort and definitely a great start to book-making. This is the front cover, done in metallic acrylics with a calligraphy pen and embellished with silver foil. The spine, after stitching. It’s bound…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 