Engraving stamps and printing techniques
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Course overview
- Provider
- Domestika
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Beginner
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Lessons
- 13 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Pablo Salvaje
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In this course by Pablo Salvaje, you will learn the technique of embossing and you will become a human printing press, exploring its possibilities you will get results similar to serigraphy, risography or lithography.
You will bring out the best of both worlds: the most creative and fun of an entirely artisanal work like the stamps and the great imaginary of the Gutenberg press and all its possibilities without the need for large spaces or huge machines.
You will know all the necessary materials and their tricks, from rubber types, types of paper, inks and the different surfaces where you can get to use your stamps.
At the end of the course, you will know everything to customize your books, travel notebooks, create a pattern for your clothes, self-edit your own prints and fanzines or turn your home into the greatest work of art.
Description
You will begin knowing a little more the trajectory and the way of working of Pablo Salvaje as well as his graphical referents.
Then you will discover everything related to the materials and the basic tools necessary for carving stamps.
From illustrations, natural elements and photographs, you will choose a design to create your first personalized stamp. Before starting to carve, Pablo will give you the basics about embossing techniques and will talk about the types of strokes that can be done with the gouge as well as advice about the color, texture and repetition of the motif.
Then you will learn everything you need about stamping on paper with carved or uncut stamps (fingerprints), its different applications, cleaning and recommendations.
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