artlab: stamps and cards

CMCA ArtLab Bronstein stamps, cards 2013

Our third annual “Stamps & Cards” workshop at CMCA only helped to confirm why this the workshop became an annual offering in the first place.

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In a previous post, I wrote about printmaking as a particularly mesmerizing, addictive medium. And even though stamp-making might be viewed by some as printmaking lite, to my mind, a stamped impression is equal to a printed impression.

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The essentials are fundamentally the same:

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First a series of decisions about design, color, and form

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then, lots of possibilities in creating patterns by repeated impression,

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and creating the illusion of layers, with varied tones and overlapping prints.

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Not to mention the need for inverted thinking.

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Printmaking or stamp-making, it doesn’t matter what it’s called. I’ll look forward to next year calling it the Fourth Annual ArtLab for All Ages Stamps and Cards workshop.