Sketchbooking with Handmade Stamps
Transferring and Drawing Your Design
A course by Jeanne McGee , Artist and Printmaker
About the video: Transferring and Drawing Your Design
Overview
“You will learn a couple of ways you can begin to draw on your block before carving. Both methods are valuable and depending on your image can work great. ”
In this video lesson Jeanne McGee addresses the topic: Transferring and Drawing Your Design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sketchbooking with Handmade Stamps. Experiment with designing your own stamps and create vibrant artwork inspired by the world around you.
Partial transcription of the video
“Transferring and Drawing Your Design You've found inspiration and created your mood board. I will teach you how to transfer an image to a block. To start, I'm using an image from my sketchbook of this flower. The best way to start is to have tracing paper, a bone folder, a number 2 pencil, which is one of the softest pencils you can get, and your carving block. To start, I will place the tracing paper over the image I'm gonna transfer, in this case, it's this small flower, and I'll trace the outline of the flower onto the tracing paper. If need be, you could use tape to place the tracing pa...”
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Course summary for: Sketchbooking with Handmade Stamps
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Engraving, Pattern Design, Printing, Sketchbook, Traditional illustration
Jeanne McGee
A course by Jeanne McGee
Jeanne McGee is an artist and printmaker based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She grew up in a creative household and spent a lot of time pursuing artistic hobbies like drawing and painting. She went on to study for an MFA in printmaking at The University of Wisconsin and in 2018 was featured in Print / Maker, published by UPPERCASE.
Her work is inspired by her love of the outdoors and has been featured in small independent stores and galleries across the US. Jeanne experiments with a variety of artistic mediums as well as printmaking, including drawing and textile design, and shares her work on Instagram with over 30K followers.
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