A Painting from Hand-Carved Stamps
My advanced art students are going to be making a project such as this starting this week, so I thought I would post this. I wanted to make a painting that was made out of "stamps" or prints this summer, so I created three stamps of different scales to represent trees in early spring, fading back in space. The stamps are made from soft printmaking material- essentially big erasers. I underpainted patchy areas of olive green and sap green to provide a platform for the prints and will recommend that my students do the same. I used water based acrylic and block inks. I cut out sections of the original circles of leaves to use as mini stamps in random areas after I worked out the bigger areas and hand painted particular areas near the end of the process.
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