2nd Annual Master Print Using Fun Foam
Pat Gaignat, who wrote an article about this process in Cloth, Paper Scissors in the Sept-Oct 2010 issue, taught our small art group to make fun foam art stamps. One year ago we "interpreted" a painting by Cranach using this process. Last Christmas I posted a tutorial for making a simple Santa stamp in 4 colors. Today we met and interpreted an Indian painting from the new Islamic Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Here is the painting that inspired us:
I sketched her to simplify the image.
Then I painted it to work on ways to simplify the colors.
Today was the day that we met and created stamps for our painting - laughing, swearing, having lunch, and finally printing out one copy. Here is my print - using a limited stamp pad palette
It is certainly an exercise that must be working our neurons. And having made stamps for such a complex image, less complicated ones are really easy.
Comments
This is so lovely! And keep up using that brush for drawing figures!
Posted by: Gwendolyn | December 7, 2011 9:12 PM
Simply impressive Shirley! =) I like seeing different versions of a single subject, and you pulled all of them off so well
Posted by: Alex Tan | December 8, 2011 3:12 AM
Wow! I'm very impressed, this looks like ti would be very difficult to stamp, but you did it really well! Like the colours too!x
Posted by: Rachael | December 8, 2011 4:30 AM
I have been meaning to try this technique in a simpler form for some time. I had no idea that it would be possible to make such a complex image. Wonderful!
Posted by: Wendy | December 8, 2011 5:50 AM
Shirley, Splendid drawing, painting, and printing! I like the colors you chose for both the painting and the stamping. Each imparts a different mood. Your line drawing reminded me of an article I saw in the Hindu newspaper sometime in early 90's about the artist M F Hussein. His drawings were very expressive too. Thanks for sharing, Ambal.
Posted by: ambal | December 9, 2011 7:15 AM
Great! I really like seeing the progression..and am amazed you could get such detail with a stamp!
Posted by: Sara Roseman | December 9, 2011 1:26 PM
Wonderful results, all the swearing paid off!
Posted by: Cathy Holtom | December 9, 2011 4:15 PM
I am so impressed! This is wonderful - all the preparation certainly paid off.
Posted by: Margaret | December 11, 2011 4:09 AM
Wow, Shirley, this is complicated but well worth the splendid result.
Posted by: robyn | December 14, 2011 9:36 AM
This was so interesting, and I'm very impressed at what you were able to do with hand-made stamps!! nancy
Posted by: nancy t. | December 15, 2011 8:33 AM
Wonderful. A huge amount of effort for you, but worth it for the wonderful result.
Posted by: Wendy | December 18, 2011 7:27 PM