Rubber Stamps

Hola amigos: os presento algunos de mis sellos de caucho, el de Mail Art lo inauguré el 11 de diciembre.

An envelope decorated with some hand carved r-stamps of mine... I'm going to post it tomorrow...

THE BEST WISHES FROM VENEZIA under snow too!
ciao TIZIANA

A couple of old stamps from my archive here. The first is Recycled and a collage originally I had made into stamp by a professional company.
The second i made myself using an old eraser and a scalpel. Recycling the Century was an exhibition I was involved in in Wales.

The new rubberstamp arrived and is being used on the new outgoing mail-art. Will see where an image pops up....

A part of the TAM Rubberstamp Archive will be exhibited in NYC starting from April 15th 2010

Just a small section of the rubber stamps in my archive.

Exhibit in NYC? Wish dates, place, times, Ruud, and will notify friends in Long Island and near-by to not miss it! How will you transport the archives...or will it be these paper-print-out archives? Sounds like a great idea for an exhibit, all the best of success!
Good collection, Michael...I have only humble beginnings with erase-rubber-stamps, so far :-) who knows where it will lead me!

Thanks Katerina - I started out with humble beginnings too back in 1980 when I first found out about mail art and joined in. Found my first rubber stamps soon after - inspired by work of Michael Scott, Lon Speigelman, Creative Thing, Robin Crozier etc. Its taken me 30 years to accumulate all the ones I have. I am a natural hoarder. I can't possibly use them all! many are hand carved by me and mail art friends.

Michael Leigh,
You have treasure! :)
I love umbrella stamp!

I made this rubber stamp for my one of my artist book's title about rubber stamping with collage.

my artist book 'joy of stamping' 's cover, full of images of rubber stamps from francis' collection.

cork stopper stamps are hand carved by me.

I love seeing all these photos of peoples stamp collections. All so different. Great cork handles Hong and very nice book cover Antic-Ham.

My hand carved rubber stamps- corner (detail) ... Ciao Michael!
Lancillotto

An envelope of mine I'm just going to post...

all have so great things!

Welcome Ria. Antic-Ham some more great things here including biggest working rubber stamp in the world.

I use it on mail art work.

Nice one Hong- love all those cut marks!

Hi Ria,
Have a look into the discussion forum "Techniques" within the rubber stamp group. Here you find anything youĺd desire.

BTW, One Stamp Wonder is something done through the Carving Consortium and the EraserCuts Groups - you sign up for 4 months and each month you use the same stamp you have carved in a different way. The ones I posted here earlier are from a long time ago but I've done it more recently, just don't have time to scan them! I thought I'd mention them to all of you in case anyone decides it's worth trying. It's good to stimulate your own creative juices as it keeps you from thinking your stamps have only one 'life'.

arttower, you have nice stamps.

I made alphabet stamps.

on: http://www.iuoma.org/ot_pub.html there is a direct link (nr. 30) to the essay I wrote for the upcoming exhibition at the Stendhal Gallery in new York. Have a look....

650 stampsheets travelled to New York (USA) and are currently being framed for the big exhibition at the Stendhal Gallery. In 5 days I will go myself for the opening.

Stampsheets exhibited at the Stendhal Gallery in New York. From April 15th till May 29th 2010.

Hi, I just joined your group.
I am thinking to create my own stamps, so I thought this group might be inspiring. Nice to meet you.
Tomoe-

very nice Susanna!!

Susanna,
I like your stamp.
I don't know about the size, but I used to do linoleum print about 5 by 7 in" size. It looks like as yours.
I just come to realized that since stamp is originated the way from woodblock print, small sized print can be both art work on paper, and stamp that goes with a letter or where ever. Inspiring....

Gift from Scott Holmes for the TAM Rubberstamp Archive

Hi Susanna,
Thank you for recommend product, and your curving demo looks nice and helpful.

When I went to San Francisco last summer, I bought a bunch of small sized linoleum, 6 by 8, and postcard size. And many of 4 by 6 printing block that you have from Speedball brand. I made my name stamp with it.

In Japan, eraser stamp is popular now, and there are many stamp artists publish books. And you can buy rubber eraser block by itself and set with other materials special for making stamps at craft stores and websites.
Sorry the site is Japanese, but I will try to post the pics from there.
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/wrapping/555816/806232/806242/

http://www.keshigomuhanga.com/