This 12 months on the weblog, we’re being given free reign to do a deep dive into one of many PaperArtsy product ranges. I’m very glad to be utilizing a few stamp units from Alison’s vary – one from her final launch of 2024 (the fabulous Winter Umbels from her botanical texture collection) mixed with one in all her older curated quote units (The Time Version).
You’ll be able to see already, my initiatives usually are not very ‘Alison like’! – I really like working with brilliant colors and geometric shapes.
I began off simply making the wall panel on the left within the photograph above – however as I had a lot of ‘bits’ leftover I made a card to go along with it.
It began with gel plate prints and I am going to present you the way I created the sample from these.
I really like how Alison’s current stamp units present a mix of components; focal factors, ephemera, texture and phrases. Earlier than Christmas I used to be visiting a pal who had a chunk of artwork (in her cloakroom!) utilizing this color vary. It actually appealed to me, so I’ve used PaperArtsy colors to replicate this as we speak.
You’ll be able to see how the Umbels picture is dominant in a few of my prints however simply hinted at in others.
As regular as soon as the gel plate is out, it’s arduous to cease however I knew I had greater than sufficient, so it was time to create the sample.
I had an concept of the sample I wanted to create. The sample is overlapping circles that are constructed up with completely different colors.
Firstly I drew a circle utilizing a compass – however you would draw round one thing or use a die or punch. My circle is 5 cm diameter. I drew a 5cm sq. round it.
The nook of this sq. is the centre of the overlapping circle – so I might now draw this one too. You’ll be able to see above the sample is created by repeating this.
I then used this concept on completely different color backgrounds and fussy lower the items.
If you do not have a compass – simply draw and measure a circle. Add traces for the horizontal and vertical centres and it will present you the place the overlapping circle will sit. You’ll be able to fussy lower the items and use as templates.
I glued the fussy lower items onto my drawn sample sketch to assist get them positioned accurately. Fussy reducing means there have been going to be slight imperfections – however after the pen work, I do not assume they’re too seen.
For a matt layer I took some Smoothy Card and used Ranger Archival Ink in Watering Can to randomly stamp a number of the texture, phrase and ephemera stamps.
I lower my border out of the gold paint stamped Umbels on black card. (I needed to do it like this as by created background wasn’t large enough for the wood panel!)
The bottom wood panel is 6×6 inches. I painted this in PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic in Butternut earlier than stamping the Umbels on the seen edge.
The element across the sample components is finished with Posca Pens – firstly in black after which gold dots had been added.
With all my ‘Umbels’ backgrounds I had some left over so made the cardboard to go along with it.
Once more you may see the Umbels in every of the squares beneath.
And one other great quote….
