Hand Carved Stamp 2

Trying to think of ways to incorporate this into student projects and I came up with this ATC sized stamp idea.  I decided to try a jar of buttons since that would give me lots of options for changing colors with each print.

I just used Crayola watercolor markers to print these ATC's.

I probably wouldn't make students do 9 variations, perhaps just 3?

Collograph Print 2 - Organic

It was suggested that we gather many things that we could experiment printing with - so I decided to combine cardboard, wallpaper, cardstock, ribbon, rick rack, and silk flowers for my organic collograph.

It came out a lot better than I thought it would and it changed my thought on what I could use for collograph prints - I was stuck in the cardboard, string, foam frame of mind, so this was a good thing to push me out of my comfort zone.

Collogaph Prints 1 - Cityscape

 We were asked to create some collographs and I decided to use cardstock since it is readily available and not so costly to use with elementary students. 

Hand Carved Stamp - Printmaking Class

We were asked to create a hand carved stamp and then come up with a finished project.  I had seen some examples of  the 1/4 square done and thought it might be a good project that I could translate over to my junior high printmaking class.

Here is my first attempt, using one color and getting the rotation down.

 Here I decided tow try 2 colors in an alternating pattern.

 Next I tried doing random blocks of color, no pattern.

 Random blocks of color on patterned scrapbook paper.

 Two color pattern on scrapbook paper.

Conclusion -  I like the white paper best for using multiple ink colors.  If I were to use scrapbook papers with my students I would probably have then use black ink or a highly contrasting color depending on the paper they chose.

Gelli Printing with the new mini gelli plates

 They came out with 6 new mini shapes and I bought the all.  They suggested that you use them on an acrylic stamp block  and that worked really well.

I used distress ink pads and texture rubbing plates.  I applied the ink directly to the gelli plate then pressed the texture rubbing plate into it and then tried stamping into a sketch book.

Gelli Printing VII

Styrofoam printing plates cut into shapes and then drawn on with a pen to create texture.  Pulled the mask on the onion bag print.

Removed the styrofoam masks and pulled  a new print, then . . . 

 . . . used new colors and a texture comb to layer over the top of that.

Gelli Printing VI

 I have this gorgeous fan stencil that I picked up at Goodwill that was made for stenciling on walls for home decor, it is one of my favorite stencils, I have two sizes.

I did the onion beg, the added a layer of foam stamps . . .

 . . .  then used the fan stencil on top of all that.  Sometimes it is really had to stop layering.