paint as one

In groups of four my students painted together....
the idea was to paint as if one person was doing
all the painting.  Can you see the dividing lines?
There was lots of challenging going on in the
groups. Different brushstrokes, hues, blends and
second layers of colours added.

No one was allowed to cross the paint line and work in their
neighbour's sections.... they had to work together to "paint as one"

pounding out beautiful prints!

This is the easiest transfer of all and you can take out your frustrations
while doing it!  All it took was a beautiful coloured oak leaf, a
piece of muslin and a hammer.  I laid the leaf on the fabric and
hammered the leaf until the colour transferred to the fabric.
Ironing on the wrong side will then heat set the print.  Wow...
so many possibilities with this process!

Hapa-zome is literally “leaf-dye” in Japanese, according to India Flint, 
author of Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles.

Artist trading card stamp

Friends of mine were searching for a stamp for
the back of their ATC cards and had trouble
locating one.  I liked the idea so decided to make
one.  The instructions are as follows......

First trace a trading card and print name
and address in big letters (so they can be carved
out of lino) Reverse the design so it will work
as a stamp. 

Copy this onto a piece of lino and carve it with a lino cutter.

Use a small stamp pad to ink up the carved stamp.

Stamp the back of your Artist Trading Card and fill in your name and date.