Playing with Paper

June 17th, 2008

I'd been wanting to try rubbings with the stamp I made at Artfest this year and the inspiration to give it a go came from seeing the GPP Street challenge and Hanna's response to it. Here are two of the rubbings I did initally:

I used some wax caran d'ache crayons that I had, but unfortunately they were water soluble, so they couldn't do much in the way of resisting wax as in the GPP Street Challenge. So, after playing with that a while. I made some rubbings with colored pencil and tried one with just gel medium to see what would happen. All of these will make great paper for collaging and it was a lot of fun to just play with no end result in mind.

I wanted to keep playing and playing, but I needed to stop to eat and the Celtics are coming on shortly. Go Celtics! So, that'll be it for today.

Posted by Leah on June 17th, 2008 in art, blogs, creative every day 08, creativity, inspiration, mixed-media, play | Permalink | 4 Comments |

4 Responses

Welcome to the Crusade, Leah ! It was fun, wasn’t it, to just play and slop some paint around without worrying about how things were going to come out, just as kids do !
Looks like you had fun… Happy Rubbings ! Go Celtics !
Kim

Posted by: Kimbo | Jun 17, 2008 at 9:22 pm |

those rubbings are awsome… dont you love making your own paper for collaging?

Posted by: sheri leseberg | Jun 18, 2008 at 3:38 am |

It looks like you had a lot of fun These look like EXCELLENT textures!