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: work
In case you were wondering where I work….
This is my studio, in its normal state of chaos. Chaos is a good thing; it means I’m getting lots done and my creative juices are burbling. When my studio is clean, I’m probably in an artistic torpor or in some way ill. So here’s the view from the door, looking in. There’s usually at…
In case you were wondering where I work….
This is my studio, in its normal state of chaos. Chaos is a good thing; it means I’m getting lots done and my creative juices are burbling. When my studio is clean, I’m probably in an artistic torpor or in some way ill. So here’s the view from the door, looking in. There’s usually at…
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…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 