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…
Category: process
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…
Finishing things
Traditionally, I have been worse than average at finishing things. Part of that is due to my basic nature – I fly full-force at a project and need some external impetus (a deadline, etc.) to finish. Recently, though, I have noticed that I finish a far greater percentage of what I start. Part of that…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 