Saturday 31 December 2011
Further work on the Clematis Designs.
Friday 30 December 2011
After quite some time fiddling about with different things to make stamen stamps I have narrowed it down to one choice, toothpick ends. They are nicely tapered and thick enough to stamp out like the thick stamens of the native Clematis. As you can see from the picture, I tried all sorts of things and nothing was quite right. Either they were too thick, (foam sheet), too thin, (wire) or too textured (woven cord)Now to combine the elements into a nice Clematis stamp.
Thursday 29 December 2011
Having had reasonable success with the dandelion stamp cutting, I decided to tackle something a little more challenging, a native Clematis flower, leaf and seed head. The flower looked pretty straight forward, but it wasn't! First I carved out the 4 petals, easy peasy, but adding the stamens was much more difficult as they are so thin. Using the lovely new carving tools that I bought myself for Christmas I made the first stamp, not so good. I decided then that the image should be made in 2 parts, the petals and then the stamens. The petal carving was simple enough, but how to do the stamens? Too thin to carve out, but maybe something stuck onto a block would do. I cut up lengths of fine florists wire, but that didn't work very well either. back to the drawing board.
Wednesday 28 December 2011
Tuesday 27 December 2011
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Thursday 15 December 2011
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Monday 12 December 2011
All Elements Together!
I thought that once I printed the design onto fabric I should paint the various elements with pale fabric paint colours. Just for fun however I coloured the design in using Photoshop, all but the speckled grey leaves which were too hard to select individually that is. Now with the very strong colours it looks like an old style hand painted linocut. Which one would I prefer................?
Sunday 11 December 2011
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Thursday 8 December 2011
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Monday 5 December 2011
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