Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp โ€“ Day 6 and final

Actually I want to print the front papers too, in a different colour scheme, so there should be a follow-up at some point ;) But for now let me show you some process pictures of the actual printing!

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp โ€“ Days 3-5

I’ve made it to the test print! โ€ฆbut let’s first pick up where we left ๐Ÿ˜Œ๏ธ

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp โ€“ Day 2

So I’ve reworked the base hexagonal tile for my repeat pattern.

Creating a repeating pattern with a hand-carved stamp โ€“ Day 1

It’s been a moment since I last tried my hand at repeating patterns, or stamp carving. Today I’m diving back with an obviously much too ambitious project: carving a stamp for an hexagon-based pattern – also, small enough to repeat on the “end papers” of my A6-size sketchbook ๐Ÿ˜…๏ธ.

Just a tomato

I was entranced by the shapes of the slowly drying vine and sepals on this tomato :) Untypically, I followed my impulse to sketch it ๐Ÿ˜Š๏ธ I hesitated between a simple linework and adding colour, so I thought I’d do the latter but document the former in case the colouring went awry ๐Ÿ˜๏ธ. Also, the […]