Valentine's tradition number two
Feb. 13th, 2025 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrWell, Valentine's, anniversary, sometimes even birthdays: we make art together! Sometimes clay-related, more often a paper or bookbinding project. We've done woodcuts, mono-prints, gelli-prints, paste-papers. One of these days, we'll break out the paper marbling kit. This time, though, we did something called paper batik. It's a multi-step process that yields some very cool results. I used it on the cover of last fall's Inktober sketchbook.
The first step: rubber stamp patterns onto brown kraft paper--recycled paper bags--or possibly while recycle, we cut up a bread bag as well. I have a lot of carved-eraser stamps, so decided to try a bunch of those this year. We also have some from the workshop where we learned the technique, made from craft foam sheets.
Next, color over the sheets with wax crayons. Denise has a jumbo set of Crayolas, so we had plenty of colors to choose from. You can color over the stamps, or around them, your choice. I tend to go over, Denise around.
Brush a thin wash of colored acrylic paint over the whole page. It will bead up on the crayon, soak in uncovered parts, maybe darken your stamped images if you didn't color over them. I used purple on the whale sheet.
On a big patchwork bunny sheet, I used blue with a tiny bit of silver. If you look close, you can see the sparkle.
Once they're thoroughly dry, seal the entire surface by rubbing over with a tablet of beeswax.
Now they're ready to wrap book board for covers, reinforce spines, maybe use to cover boxes? Will have to experiment.
The first step: rubber stamp patterns onto brown kraft paper--recycled paper bags--or possibly while recycle, we cut up a bread bag as well. I have a lot of carved-eraser stamps, so decided to try a bunch of those this year. We also have some from the workshop where we learned the technique, made from craft foam sheets.
Next, color over the sheets with wax crayons. Denise has a jumbo set of Crayolas, so we had plenty of colors to choose from. You can color over the stamps, or around them, your choice. I tend to go over, Denise around.
Brush a thin wash of colored acrylic paint over the whole page. It will bead up on the crayon, soak in uncovered parts, maybe darken your stamped images if you didn't color over them. I used purple on the whale sheet.
On a big patchwork bunny sheet, I used blue with a tiny bit of silver. If you look close, you can see the sparkle.
Once they're thoroughly dry, seal the entire surface by rubbing over with a tablet of beeswax.
Now they're ready to wrap book board for covers, reinforce spines, maybe use to cover boxes? Will have to experiment.