Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Information on working with plastic foam and making wrapped bouquets will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and at noon on Thursday.
Deborah Pace will show how to use plastic foam to create ZIAs (Zentangle Inspired Art.) She’ll demonstrate using black ink on white paper, metallic ink on black paper and using a combination of black on white and white on black paper as well as the opposite color of inks. She is from Riverside, California.
Floral designer Carly Cylinder will show how to not only wrap a bouquet to give to someone, she’ll talk about design principles and how to use various products to create an easy professional look. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Information on various crafts and making long and low centerpieces will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” at noon on Tuesday and at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Jann Johnson is a designer and crafter from New York City, and she will show how to make some special occasion crafts, including a Victorian frame, a seashell frame and some girls’ wrist bouquets.
Casey Schwartz is a floral designer and she’s going to demonstrate how to create a long and low centerpiece which is perfect for a rectangle table or a mantle. She’ll use a variety of flowers that are available year ‘round. She is from Redondo Beach, California.
Faux Monoprinting with Plastic Foam
Did you know you can make some handmade carved stamps using plastic foam? For the first carving, start with a centered design in the upper left corner, so when the image is stamped, you have a point to work from. Now it’s ready to be printed. Sometimes getting the image correct is harder than other times, it just takes practice. You might try drawing a line down the middle of the stamp to create a square in order for it to be easier to line up. Then use Speedball metallic white block printing ink on black cardstock. For a special effect, go in with a white metallic pen to fill in more details, or leave it the way it is.
For the second carving, first I stained the plastic foarm with black ink, otherwise you would not be able to see the image. Then it’s ready to be printed. Again, I used black block printing ink for this image. Try using different colors of ink on different colored paper and see how some makes the carving really pop. The best part about this technique is you don't need a printing machine nor printing blocks to do mono-printing. Plastic foam work just as well. Have fun experimenting!
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