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Post by Citygirl on Dec 3, 2018 15:05:03 GMT
Anyone doing it? Done it?
I've never carved a stamp but I'm always inspired by Julie Fei-fan Balzers stamps for carve December & this year she did print October. I bought her class Stamp Carving 101 and watched all the videos in 2 days.
I think it's the first class I ever bought that I actually completed lol. I'm going to put stamp carving on my list of creative projects to try in 2019!
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Post by grammadee on Dec 3, 2018 15:58:54 GMT
Not something I would be good at, but it sounds like it will give you a lot of fun and creativity for the upcoming year.
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Post by joblackford on Dec 4, 2018 2:21:07 GMT
I love stamp carving! I have too many other things going on this time of year to join in with Julie, but it's so much fun. I want to get back to carving stamps next year.
I'm not good at drawing, but I wanted to do pictorial stamps, so I would find a free coloring page image or simple line drawing and reduce the size down to where I wanted it and I'd transfer to the block and carve from there. I did some animals, pumpkins, some other basic shapes. I even tried to do the Beatles based on an album cover image (high contrast faces, maybe from With The Beatles?) and it turned out well enough that people could recognize them!
Of course I messed up plenty more, and have barely gotten into the cool repeating patterns that Julie likes to play around with. I should pull her book out and get some new carving blocks and give it another go when I'm done with Christmas. I love the look of old woodblock prints and it would be fun to design my own for cards.
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Post by Embri on Dec 4, 2018 21:14:16 GMT
We did linoleum stamp making in high school, does that count? I still have mine kicking around somewhere. It was more fun than woodblock prints since you don't have to deal with the grain.
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Post by anniefb on Dec 5, 2018 18:08:00 GMT
Never tried it but I don’t think it’s something I’d be good at.
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Post by LisaDV on Dec 6, 2018 2:00:13 GMT
I’ve always wanted to. Too much going on in life for tackling it now. Maybe once we’ve moved.
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Post by joblackford on Dec 6, 2018 2:00:42 GMT
We did linoleum stamp making in high school, does that count? I still have mine kicking around somewhere. It was more fun than woodblock prints since you don't have to deal with the grain. If you ever get a chance to play with the soft speedball carving blocks they are to lino what lino is to wood - SO MUCH EASIER! They cut like butter. So much fun. |
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Post by Embri on Dec 6, 2018 2:15:02 GMT
We did linoleum stamp making in high school, does that count? I still have mine kicking around somewhere. It was more fun than woodblock prints since you don't have to deal with the grain. If you ever get a chance to play with the soft speedball carving blocks they are to lino what lino is to wood - SO MUCH EASIER! They cut like butter. So much fun. Ooh, that does sound tempting. Lino takes quite an effort from what I recall - granted we probably didn't have the sharpest of tools, school budgets being what they are/were. I've seen some of the stamp making kit type bundles on AliExpress and was intrigued but not enough to actually buy one. Might have to take another look. |
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Post by joblackford on Dec 6, 2018 20:01:15 GMT
If you ever get a chance to play with the soft speedball carving blocks they are to lino what lino is to wood - SO MUCH EASIER! They cut like butter. So much fun. Ooh, that does sound tempting. Lino takes quite an effort from what I recall - granted we probably didn't have the sharpest of tools, school budgets being what they are/were. I've seen some of the stamp making kit type bundles on AliExpress and was intrigued but not enough to actually buy one. Might have to take another look. You should! All you need is a Speedball handle with all the little attachments and a few carving blocks which you can get cheap at Dick Blick's. Here's somewhere to start - linky - the stuff they sell is easy to cut into smaller blocks and it's cheaper to get a few bigger sheets and cut them up. There are other options at Blick's. Speedball has their own version too. All the things. You can get everything from an art supply store online without spending very much money. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2018 3:07:31 GMT
JFFB is amazing. Her instagram quick videos make me happy.
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