Engraving Stamps and Printing Techniques
The law of Positive and negative
A course by Pablo Salvaje , Illustrator and Stamp Carver
About the video: The law of Positive and negative
Overview
“We will know the law of Positive and negative and for this I ask you for patience, and a lot of attention. This part is perhaps the one that most doubts presents and in which we can find more problems, but attention, this is only a question of choice and tastes, not of right or wrong, so once we have clear concepts, we are sure It will be increasingly easy. The space we carve, with which we spend with the gouge, will remain untinted and will give us a white mark when making a stamping, that space is called Negative. The space in positive are those areas that will remain intact, and will receive ink on the surface, will give us an inked result in the printing. You can play to carve a design in positive and the same one in negative, something simple, and you will be able to create then quite interesting visual jurgos.”
In this video lesson Pablo Salvaje addresses the topic: The law of Positive and negative, 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 and we started with unit three This is perhaps the most practical unit of the whole course Here I ask you attention, and enough patience let's know the law of the positive and negative, let's know some strokes with the gouge, we will go directly to the technique of the carving in relief, and when we have our seals we will see some tricks of texture, repetition, color, that we leave for the end. Attention now, because we are going to talk about the law of positive and negative this is going to generate some doubts but well, as the course is in video we can see it whenever...”
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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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