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Stamp Making – Art Lesson

December 19, 2018 By linda

Happy Holidays everyone. Here’s a fun project for kids and adults that doesn’t require a lot of fancy supplies and can add a personal touch to your gift giving, or thank you notes. It’s really easy to make custom stamps to use on wrapping paper, tissue paper, cards and gift tags. This is a tried and true printmaking lesson appropriate for kids because there are no carving tools used just a pencil, craft foam, scissors and foam core board or cardboard for a stamp block. I use a few other print making tools or a stamp pad.

The supplies needed are sticky back craft foam, or regular craft foam and glue, sharp scissors, cardboard or foam core board, water based ink, a brush or brayer to apply the ink and white or colored paper. Most of these items can be found in the Highlands Art Garage store.

I always look to nature for inspiration so I made a pine cone stamp but in the video I demonstrate the process with a simple drawing of a bow. Other ideas would be holly leaves and berries, stars, animals like a cat or bunny or simple shapes like circles or triangles. The details of your design are added with a pencil.

 

After I have a simple drawing, I transfer it to the foam. If you’re using sticky back foam I transfer it to the foam side. Cut out your design, peel the back and stick it to the foam core board or cardboard. Put some ink on a piece of Plexiglas or board covered with parchment paper, wax paper or foil. Roll the brayer back and forth to load it with ink then apply the ink with the brayer to the stamp. Stamp you paper or card, re- ink and repeat.

Watch the video below to see how it’s done. If you want to try glitter I recommend mixing craft glue in with the printing ink and cleaning your stamp well so the glue doesn’t fill in the details for the next time you want to use it.

 

 

 

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Colored Pencil Apple Drawing

November 14, 2018 By linda

November is apple season, apple pie, apple dumplings, apple cider, apple crisp, you get the idea. It’s also time to start shopping for Holiday gifts for those creatives in your life. I have a tutorial for you and the kids that takes you beyond the coloring books that have become so popular. Colored pencils are a great medium to learn because they’re easy to travel with and require virtually no set up or clean up time. Prismacolor is my favorite brand and any size set makes a great Holiday gift. Many art supply stores sell these pencil separately so you can easily add to your collection at any time. I like to add a few grays to any set or some of the softer colors that can be used for mixing.

In this video I show you have to render highlights called tints and shadows called tones to make the apple really look 3 dimensional. I use gray paper because the colors really pop off the gray but white drawing paper works just as well. Click here to shop for good quality construction paper for colored pencil drawings, I use slate. This gray paper is also great for black and white drawing which may be a subject of an art lesson in the future. Prismacolor Premiere Pencils can be found at Highlands Art Garage store.

The video explains all the supplies and walks you through every step.

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