Engraving Stamps and Printing Techniques
Basic tools
A course by Pablo Salvaje , Illustrator and Printmaking Artist
About the video: Basic tools
Overview
“We will see what we need to work, both the surface on which we will work and the indispensable materials. We will make a tour of the types of rubber and we will see which is the best suited to our way of working and the results that we like the most. We will talk about inks and types of paper, this combination is the one that can give us the greatest game afterwards, since there are a thousand inks, and a thousand types of paper, we will see that we achieve by combining some and others. The gouge, the vegetal paper or the type of pencil, will be the rest of materials that we will see, each one of them has something that we will have to know well to work better.”
In this video lesson Pablo Salvaje addresses the topic: Basic tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Engraving Stamps and Printing Techniques. Design your own stamps and print anything you can imagine.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello again. In this unit. we will discuss the necessary tools for carving our stamp. Uh... The main tools I'll discuss are the pencil. scissors. adhesive. and our gouges. The pencil should ideally be a 2HB. but why? HB. when the pencil marks B. means soft. and when it marks H... Means harder. An HB is an intermediate pencil. It's a pencil that. when used on tracing paper. as we will see shortly. leaves sufficient lead and when flipped onto the rubber it will mark quite well for us so that we can then follow the line with the gouge. So. whenever use a mostly soft pencil. If not. an intermed...”
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Course summary for: Engraving Stamps and Printing Techniques
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Arts & Crafts, Creating with Kids, Engraving, Fine Arts, Printing, Traditional illustration
Pablo Salvaje
A course by Pablo Salvaje
Pablo Salvaje is an illustrator, engraver, and printmaker born in Seville (Spain) who is currently in a stable relationship with his gouge, from which he has not separated himself for over seven years. He has used this tool to work on projects for clients such as Hyundai, Pinzat, and Desigual and has published a book, Alma Animal, which includes his wildest illustrations.
In 2015, he founded the private studio La Selva Bcn in Barcelona, a creation space where he teaches printing workshops for all audiences.
With nature as his muse, Pablo Salvaje's work aims to leave its mark, literally and figuratively, and create awareness about the planet we inhabit.
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