Engraving Stamps and Printing Techniques
Choice of our design
A course by Pablo Salvaje , Illustrator and Stamp Carver
About the video: Choice of our design
Overview
“The most decisive lesson, a good design is indispensable to work comfortable and with desire. To start I recommend a choice to taste, not because of difficulty, we do not care if it is difficult or easy to work, it is more important that we are passionate and that we want to see stamped that design that can be from a leaf of the park tree more Close up, to the silhouette of your partner's profile, or that funny picture of your dog's face. This choice will be useful to take the first steps in the rubber. We will count on that this first design will later be the protagonist of the final project, which we will complement with the rest of the stamps that we are doing little by little. For all this we will have reference books, with patterns and templates to follow, as I said, this unit is the most useful once you finish your course, so we will leave everything well ordered and explained to be your help at the time to start a new project.”
In this video lesson Pablo Salvaje addresses the topic: Choice of our design, 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
“[Music] Hello again now in our lesson 3, from unit 2. Let's talk about one thing quite important, I think the most important thing, the project that we are going to carry out today that is the choice of our design. At the time of choose our design is much more important than a design us, we are more passionate that it is very complicated or that it is extremely simple. Something that really is fun for us to give us many different strokes, it may be that us, that makes us much more pleasant, the task. I for example was thinking, for we have different books, three referents such as these tree...”
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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
From a very young age, Pablo Salvaje was always in contact with the world of printing and the noise of huge machines that printed at breakneck speed in his family's old printing press. In addition, his mother was a postwoman and while on vacation he helped her by postmarking the letters to be delivered. It seemed that all the stars aligned to bring him closer to this world of ink and pressure.
He is a lover of nature, who explores on his travels, collecting logs, leaves, animal remains, stones, and seeds—pieces that bring him closer to nature and his lifestyle. He could not entirely explain this passion and respect for the land. It is more of a union, a care, a gratitude that is born out of a need to preserve our origins, and not lose what we have.
He considers himself a creative person, easy to communicate with. He studied acting and worked as an actor for a large part of his life, but never left the plastic arts aside, which led him to discover relief engraving and the possibility of turning his illustrations into stamps and stamping any imaginable surface. Many of his stamps are inspired by natural objects, since the textures, reliefs, and shapes found in nature help him investigate different lines in the rubber that leave a lot to experiment with when it comes to inking and stamping. Doing things by hand, makes him aware of the immense artistic power inside every one of us. "We all have talent, it's just that some work at it more than others," a phrase by Chaplin that he repeats to himself every morning.
Workshops are an escape route, to share everything he knows in addition to learning a technique with patience and love. The most beautiful thing about a workshop is to laugh, enjoy, share your ideas with others, and play—to be a child again. All these sensations are reflected at the end of a workshop in the faces of satisfaction and illusion on seeing the final result. It makes it clear we can all create and grow together.
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