Rubber Stamps

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Comment by Heleen de Vaan on August 28, 2012 at 7:22pm

Update: Last call for Mini[e]MailArt - Rubber stamps:

The Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt No19.: Rubber stamps will close in 31 August. Please, send your work, if you like!

http://arnolfini-mma.blogspot.hu/2012/06/no19-pecsetek-rubber-stamps.html

Best, Ervin Zsubori, Hungary

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on June 1, 2012 at 8:09pm

Hi all,

I received a call for e-mail art, which I like to share with you all!

The theme of the new Arnolfini Mini[e]MailArt Project, No 19, is: Rubber Stamps (also called Pecsétek, as the project origines in Hungary).

Information about how to participate you can find here,

And the website in which all contributions are shown you can find here.
Hopefully we'll all meet there, soon, too :-)

To me it seems a big challenge: how to put something so tangible into digital mail?! (I'm not only thinking of a stamp print, but also about the texture real stamp prints have, and the stamps themselves, of course :-) But we'll manage anyhow, I'm sure :-)

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 27, 2012 at 12:08am

@ Vizma and Angie & Snooky: Enjoy!  I'm looking forward to seeing your creations! Alas I was too busy to get (er, make) time to carve so far... I'm much behind in sending 'regular' mail art in return to several people who have sent me mail art, first have to finish that... Well, 'regular' mail art in my case means drawn and painted mail art, one by one - while stamping of course works faster :-)

Gertie Jaquet also organizes stamp carving workshops, and I discovered this photo album in which you can see pictures of past and recent workshops.

Great to see people creating this way! Also the results are pictured, and nice: stamps carved by both the teacher and of the 'pupils' :-)

Comment by vizma bruns on May 25, 2012 at 5:59am

I have "stempelkoorts" now!! Stamp fever!! Wow, I wanna do stamp a day!

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on May 24, 2012 at 11:54pm

I just discovered* a weblog of the Dutch illustrator Gertie Jaquet.

Last year she had a project 'a stamp a day' and she carved a huge amount of rubber stamps! Even now she continues to carve stamps, and I think many of them very beautiful or at least very nice. See this weblog 'A stamp a day'.

For the ones who happen to be close to Amsterdam soon, she has an exhibition in the Amsterdam public library (children's books department, OBA, see for the address here).

* Thanks to Lidia, who drew my attention by her own blog to Gertie Jaquet's stamps (and who also carves nice rubber stamps herself).

p.s. I wonder if Ruud already has stamp prints of both of them in the TAM rubberstamp archive? As far as I can see, Gertie didn't discover mail art, yet??

And I'll pass one of your collage stamp sheets on to Lidia!

Comment by Eduardo Cardoso on May 5, 2012 at 4:04am

HAHAHA! That's so right! It's the famous sasquatch silhouette turned into a ninja. :D

Comment by Daniel Wayne Qualls (BEAR) on May 4, 2012 at 8:19pm

sasquatch ! Cool !

Comment by Eduardo Cardoso on May 3, 2012 at 5:58pm

My new Rubber Stamps: Ninja/Athame.

Comment by Ana Karina on April 24, 2012 at 3:28am

Oh Boy, that's a fantastic idea. I did like the way it looked in the photo. I just have to get more carving blocks and figure out where I want to order from.

Comment by Oh Boy on April 23, 2012 at 4:32am

Ana - stamp this carving on to another piece of carving material. Then carve the new one. It will be a reverse image and you can stamp the cats facing each other or back to back.

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