carving and stamping
I hardly find any time doing anything else then working on projects for my upcoming book, but yesterday evening i tried out this stamp carving thing. It's not the thing i do best, but for a first try i think this owl came out pretty cute. A loooong time ago, back in the beginning of highschool i remember having cut linoleum. You know that material that is so tough to cut. Nowadays there are soft cutting carving blocks. (or of course you can use erasers, but i don't know how they work, i have the feeling they break and crumble?)For this owl i will go back and adjust, make the carvings a bit deeper to get rid of the side marks that don't belong and make the lines a bit sharper.
A second birdy is already in the making. Will show soon!
Labels: stamping
11 Comments:
oh! how cute!
this is so convenient; recently in art class my teacher got the things to make stamps with. i didn't do it because i didn't know what to do. but this is inspiring! everyone else was doing it where they would draw the picture on the stamp and cut out the lines, but you did it like the opposite way. i wanna do it!
is it all right if i kinda steal your idea? xoxo
Well yes. It's not really my idea. The whole thing with carving stamps is to carve out the areas you don't want to show up on your stamp.
All areas left raised will get the ink on them and show on the final stamped image.
I must say doing it like your artclass sounds easier since you don't have to leave such narrow lines.
You should try both ways and see what feels better to you.
I will write some of my findings on carving stamps one of these days, maybe it's of some use.
You might like to look at this fellow's stamps and tutorial
http://members.aol.com/Letterboxr/
and for lots of inspiration:
http://www.atlasquest.com/tutorials/carving/samples.html
ohh i love it!i have been wanting to try alittle carving for a while now, you have inspired me to get off my backside!thanks for your lovely comment!i did the deed and i feel amazing!
I love the owl - so cute. A while ago a friend gave me some of those boards and the tools to carve it, now only if I could find them.....
Take Care,
Lisa
Mortadella, thanks for those links, i will check them out right away!
And Fiona and Lisa, go for it. It's really fun and i would love to see the stamps you come up with!
That looks good! I've always thought making rubber stamps looked pretty hard. You make this technique look easy. Can't wait to see what you do next. Cute little owls!
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To me it looked like a sad robot! Either way, it's cute!
Heehee this is adorable, I have always wanted to try my hands on making stamps. I have to admit, at first I thought this was a frowning monkey :P
Great job! How long did it take you to go through the rubber block with the exacto knife? I remember doing a similar project in my graphic design course.
Rich
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