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Artist and popular workshop instructor Traci Bunkers can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool. In this book, she shows readers how to see overlooked, everyday objects in a new way, and how to "MacGyver" them into easy to use printing blocks and tools. Readers learn to create 52 print blocks and stamp tools, all from inexpensive, ordinary, and unexpected materials string, spools, bandaids, flip flops, ear plugs, rubber bands, school erasers, and a slew of other repurposed and upcycled items. The book also shows how to use those simple tools to make gorgeous, multi-layered prints and patterns that can be used to enhance journal covers, stationery, fabrics, accessories, and more.
About the Author
Traci Bunkers is a self-employed artist with a small business called Bonkers Handmade Originals. She dyes spinning fibers and yarns, creates an Artzine called "Tub Legs", designs knit/crochet ware for yarn companies and magazines, has a small line of art rubber stamps, is a visual journaler, book maker, and photographer--mainly using toy cameras and pinholes. She travels around teaching workshops in printing, book arts, visual journaling, mixed-media, spinning, knitting, dyeing, and photography. Making art is just as important to her as breathing. Her work has been published in several Quarry books including True Vision and 1000 Artist Journal Pages.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Traci Bunkers has a couple of great videos on Youtube about printing and stamping - one about stamping with fruit and veg and the other about making mouldable foam stamps. After having seen these videos and using my own ingenuity I figured that I wouldn't find much more in this book but I was wrong - it's full of awesome ideas that I never would have come up with on my own.
There are plenty of ideas for using different household products for creating stamps, stencils and rollers - Traci uses a combination in many of the prints shown in this book to great effect.
One of my favourite prints is made from a combination of bottle caps and a roller covered in wire. Another effective print was made using just a pencil eraser and eraser cap.
This is an excellent purchase for print makers, textile designers, art journal artists, upcyclers etc. If you've never done any printing and stamping before then this would be a really economical way to begin - using what most people already have to hand.
Just one warning - you may find it becomes difficult to throw any packaging away without considering whether it would make a good print first.
There are plenty of ideas for using different household products for creating stamps, stencils and rollers - Traci uses a combination in many of the prints shown in this book to great effect.
One of my favourite prints is made from a combination of bottle caps and a roller covered in wire. Another effective print was made using just a pencil eraser and eraser cap.
This is an excellent purchase for print makers, textile designers, art journal artists, upcyclers etc. If you've never done any printing and stamping before then this would be a really economical way to begin - using what most people already have to hand.
Just one warning - you may find it becomes difficult to throw any packaging away without considering whether it would make a good print first.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Learn how to use everyday objects and turn them into useful stamps for artwork. Discover 52 stamp tools and print blocks - one for each week of the year - more than enough to keep your creativity over-brimming. This is an excellent way to use junk and things that lie around the house. The examples of finished work are inspiring. Very clear instructions with a great, easy-to-follow, illustrated layout. Includes simple techniques to use with children and for any artist who loves multiple layers and texture, this is ideal. A practical book that has enough ideas for any printmaker, no matter what their experience. From earplugs to rubber bands, this book will allow you to see stamping in a different light. This review first appeared on karen Platt's book reviews website.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Versatile and innovative
24 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback
Don't judge this book by its simple cover. It's not as elementary as it appears. Certainly, the techniques can be adapted for use in children's art, but the book could be useful also for collage artists wanting to create 2 dimensional texture and even art quilters, using different paint mediums, but applying the same techniques. The instructions are simple, but the applications can be as comlicated as you like.
While Traci Bunkers selects her materials from common household and office products (some of them quite unexpected) it would be possible to venture into using materials from nature such as leaves, seeds and grasses. The author confines her examples largely to small blocks, but it is also possible to apply her ideas to larger formats such as collagraphs.
As the author says, "The gallery is meant to be an inspirational jumping off point to show how everything you have learned can be put together and used artistically on just about any surface imaginable." Her gallery includes examples of printmaking used with stationary, candle holders, book covers, shoes, purses and totes. But you could also use the same printmaking techniques for place mats, cushion covers, floorcloths and mixed media wall hangings.
As an abstract artist, I will be adapting the techniques to create three dimensional effects by stamping various textures into modeling paste.
As Traci says, "The sky is the limit."
While Traci Bunkers selects her materials from common household and office products (some of them quite unexpected) it would be possible to venture into using materials from nature such as leaves, seeds and grasses. The author confines her examples largely to small blocks, but it is also possible to apply her ideas to larger formats such as collagraphs.
As the author says, "The gallery is meant to be an inspirational jumping off point to show how everything you have learned can be put together and used artistically on just about any surface imaginable." Her gallery includes examples of printmaking used with stationary, candle holders, book covers, shoes, purses and totes. But you could also use the same printmaking techniques for place mats, cushion covers, floorcloths and mixed media wall hangings.
As an abstract artist, I will be adapting the techniques to create three dimensional effects by stamping various textures into modeling paste.
As Traci says, "The sky is the limit."
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Printmaking Ninja Shares Her Awesome Powers
17 April 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
"One of my superpowers is that I can turn just about anything into an interesting stamp, printing block, or tool," writes Traci Bunkers, author of this thoroughly enjoyable and highly creative how-to manual that lays out cool printmaking projects for every week in the year. Each project comes with clear instructions, detailed materials lists, well photographed examples, and expert tips. Perhaps the most important thing that Traci brings to this book is a spirit of adventure, an artistic license that offers the reader permission to have fun and get funky with colors, textures, and patterns.
As an experienced printmaker, I was a bit skeptical whether this book was right for me, but I find Traci's projects engaging, her instructions clear and precise, and there's a little something on every page to inspire me to kick it up a notch and have some fun. She offers practical tips about foraging for materials in every unlikely "art supply" store you can imagine --from Home Depot to the Dollar Store-- and provides excellent suggestions for upcycling tired, old items into beloved art pieces.
As an experienced printmaker, I was a bit skeptical whether this book was right for me, but I find Traci's projects engaging, her instructions clear and precise, and there's a little something on every page to inspire me to kick it up a notch and have some fun. She offers practical tips about foraging for materials in every unlikely "art supply" store you can imagine --from Home Depot to the Dollar Store-- and provides excellent suggestions for upcycling tired, old items into beloved art pieces.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Both inspiring and practical
27 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have bought a fair number of how-to books on the topics of mixed media and paper art, and I have to say that this is one that I will be using on a regular basis. The ideas are simple enough to implement in minimum time and with everyday materials (mostly), but lend themselves to endless invention and creative twists.
This is not a book about how to make complicated, single-purpose artistic inventions, nor does it focus on a printed gallery of artwork. Instead you can think of Print and Stamp Lab as a manual, one that you can grab from the shelf to be creating awesome layers in your artwork in no time flat.
This is not a book about how to make complicated, single-purpose artistic inventions, nor does it focus on a printed gallery of artwork. Instead you can think of Print and Stamp Lab as a manual, one that you can grab from the shelf to be creating awesome layers in your artwork in no time flat.
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