stamp

Onion stamp,pen and marker. Researching micro organisms

Onion stamp, gouache,and felt marker.

Illustration made with handcarved stamps.

An illustration capturing the nostalgic feeling of getting your library book stamped.

stamp, stencil, colored pens, ink spray collage

I made a collage of my favourite tree, a baobab, using postage stamps. The wild dog puppy seemed to creep in from somewhere!

stamped impression

I was working on a hop stamp for a project. Cici wanted to color one in!

Hop stamp digital and watercolor

Casey the Puppet. This painting captures the essence of a puppet lots of older Canadians will remember. A strange genderless creature with a dog puppet companion. A puppet with an outspoken personality that I remember as a kid wondering how it got away with saying what it did. The painting has a Canadian stamp to commemorate the puppet's roots.

Laugh done with ink wash and stamp on 45 year old paper from my first adult drawing journal.

The Lost Art of Letter Writing collage using some things used in the lost art.

Distress ink stamp, Micron Pen

For Inktober 25, I played around with a rainbow rubber stamp and markers. Simple but it was a lot of fun! And isn't Inktober all about experimentation and practise?

A portrait painting of a vintage dislocated puppet head. Created with mixed media including vintage storybook pages, old photographs and stamps. Pen and ink, gouache, and watercolours.

watersoluble markers, fineliners and stamps

Watersoluble markers, ink and stamp stickers.

Stamp for the Itty Bitty Art Show at For Artsake gallery in Newport.

Washable markers, inks, fineliner and stamps.

ink wash, mesh screen, stamp, ink pens

Snake Illustration made with handcarved stamps.

Carved rubber stamp with watercolor snail collage.

Ink stamp/Fine point pen

Gouache in my sketchbook.

Whether I make a stamp, pattern or a digital colored illustration, it always starts with a drawing. Preferably made with a 0.05 fineliner.

Carved rubber stamp

Black and blue Bic pen on vintage postcards.