I felt pretty good about my studio endeavors recently. Bumbling along, working intuitively had been paying off. My work ethic has been good and I’m putting in about 25 hours per week on my art. Then yesterday, I had this seemingly brilliant idea to go to Michaels and buy some new stamps. The rubber stamps weren’t marked down like I thought they would be so I was on to other things. I checked out clear stamps and acrylic blocks but that was pricier than my budget. Then I gravitated over to stamping embellishments and found some walnut ink sprays. I have worked a lot previously with walnut ink in the manner of watercolor with my mixed media work and thought the sprays would be convenient for ATCs. I did buy an almost filigreed design of a tree that is quite delicate. I thought I followed the directions the way they were presented. I stamped with the special quick dry ink called Versa, and then sprayed on the walnut ink....
The virtual studio of author and artist Stephanie Rose Bird brings together artistic process and reflection with the literary arts, in a manner that is designed to be instructive and inspirational.