Drawings and Stuff

I keep forgetting to post these, I finished this stamp like a month ago. I love how it turned out! There are 3 different color ways, “aura”, “dawn”, and “stars”. Technically the stars color way isn’t quite correct yet, I need to get a nice dark navy ink.

I’m making stamps to slowly work up to a 4-layer print for an illustration I’ve had in my head for years. This was to practice the moon and an option for texturing clouds. Next I’ll be doing a 3-layer print to see how the colors interact.

Soooo it seems like people like the space crows. I’m so pleased you’re enjoying them, have some more. 😅 (My art has never gotten this much traction before I don’t know what’s happening)

In addition to the “standard” colorway I’ve started doing some experimentation with the color layout, trying to get that galaxy effect. Turns out it’s kind of hard to recreate on purpose something you did completely on accident before you knew what you were doing. I also tried editing these photos a bit more so they look more like the real prints because they photograph pretty terribly.

The space crow lives! This is a callback to one of the first shrinky dink pins I ever made, now recreated as my very first solo carve. I’m very pleased with how it turned out! It took a few tries to get the coloring just right. I also ended up quite liking the solid blue, and the first test print which had a bit of a galaxy affect. I think I’ll have to experiment with that a bit more.

I got ink pads and a bunch of other printmaking materials for Christmas and I’ve been having fun!! These are the first 6 mini prints I’ve made, along with a closeup of the 3 I did today and some of my setup. I think I’m starting to get the hang of which colors to use, and am now experimenting a bit with blending. This will be very important for the next carving I plan to make.

Today I went to a printmaking workshop taught by @ginkgozee (on Instagram, she makes really cool prints)! I remember enjoying doing a linocut project during a high school art class years and years ago, so I was really excited to learn about this workshop. It was super fun! I might just need to get some new toys to play with at home…