Tuesday, May 5, 2009

nursery rhymes


a good art friend of mine is hosting a fairy tale swap for atc sized cards. i had this humpty dumpty stamp for ages that i got from alpha stamps (check out their website at: www.alphastamps.com) quite a long time ago and just didn't have the chance to use it. i often wonder when i look at people's art...and i ask myself...how did they do that? so i've been thinking i will share the steps in making some of the art i post for anyone who is curious. here's what i did for this atc: i stamped humpty on white cardstock and colored it in with copic and prismacolored markers. then i stamped some dots on top his little head. i cute out the entire stamp and edged it in an opaque black paint pen and light brown ink. the atual atc background was created by using a blue cardstock which is suppose to emulate night time and then i used a metallic blue gel pen and wrote the humpty dumpty nursery rhyme on it. i took some blue acrylic paint and painted haphazardly around the edges of the card. i also used acrylic paint to stamp the yellow swirl which is suppose to be the moon. i added some other stamps around the sides and stamped the stars across the top which i colored the numbers inside the stars with a light yellow gel pen. i cut slits in the humpty stamped image around the bottom of his feet to free them so i could slide a piece of green paper (painted with acrylic paint and then stamped with an "assemblage" definition stamp) underneath them.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, he is wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing your technique with us!

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  2. He is a little doll. AND thank you for the details. - Donna

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  3. Oh my goodness. I am so glad you shared the process. I bet you knew exactly what you were going to do before you even started, you make it sound so easy. Makes me think I need to work a little harder. Oh, how I wish you could fly and tutor me for a weekend! It's perfect, PERFECT, Rocstar!

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  4. Roc, I love the colors you chose here. That blue looks just like the hour right before nightfall. I want to do something on an Alice in Wonderland theme and this shade of blue has given me inspiration. Thank you SO much for sharing the process. I don't know a thing about stamping art and I often wonder how artists achieve such intricate details using stamps. It nver occurred to me to color in a stamp with markers! How about that? This weekend I'm going to find a stamp I love and use your post as a tutorial.

    Love,
    Alberta

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