Kristyn Lagae - Marbled Fish
From the Fish Swap
Host - Pat Vidal
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Edited by Linda Berman
Pattern stamping is really quick and easy. Simply carve any solid stamp, stamp the pattern stamp (or any other stamp) onto it and stamp your carving onto the paper.
For the fish swap, I did two very simple carvings. I cut the shape of my two fish out of paper: one is a betta splendens (also known as siamese fighting fish), the other is an angelfish. Neither are 100% percent anatomically-fishlike correct. I picked them because they have interesting shapes.
I had planned on carving them beyond the shapes but I wanted to try this new rubber stamp that I had just gotten. It's called a pattern stamp. It is a 4x6 (approx.) die that has the pattern of marble on it. I stamped the marble design onto the cut-out PZ Cut and then stamped the paper with the PZ Cut.
Pattern stamps:
they are from Limited Editions: 1-888-STAMP-98 ; (1-888-782-6798).
There are several backgrounds that I know of: marble, florentine, clouds/sky,
Hawaiian petroglyphs, coffee beans and pumpkin.
Judi-kins (310-515-1115 or 1-800-398-JUDI) also has background patterns- lots of Japanese style patterns like waves, cranes, blossoms.
I figure I can put my beginning level carving skills to use with these pattern stamps since I can carve a shape and yet make the inside interesting!
Voila! I had marbleized fishies. I suppose the stamps that I carved are the same style as what someone had called "shadow" stamp. It is essentially a solid stamp. It works great with a a brayered rainbow pad too.
I chose to recarve both fish in Safety Kut since PZ Kut was a little too delicate and the fish were too big for the page size. Oops! It was easy enough.
The light streaks of metallic blue is Pearl Ex, water, and perfect paper adhesive. (I went though a lot of spares trying to figure out how much shimmery stuff to "paint"...)
