“Waste not, want not” as my Nana used to say, along with “Make do and mend”. She survived two world wars and the great depression of the 1920s and never threw anything away. I’ve been tearing some beautiful Japanese Shiohara paper for an edition of woodcuts and there are a load of small leftovers about 7 inches by 4. Cut in half they’ll be the ideal size to try out a little rubber stamp I made a few months ago with a laser cutter. I scanned a screen print I did of the artist Frida Kahlo and scaled it down then followed the complex instructions to operate some extreme machinery and out popped this stamp. I haven’t tried it out yet. I’ve been waiting for the right paper.
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I keep all scraps of paper. Use them for chine colle on larger prints.
Oh yes. Never waste anything 😊
So cool! I have kind of an obsession with stamps- this one is awesome, nice work!
Beautiful stamp and that paper looks soooo nice. Love the message here too, using up scraps and bits can result in some interesting work I’ve found, maybe because I’m not being precious about it and worrying about ‘ruining’ costly materials
That is one elegant stamp of one elegant woman you have there. A small portion of beauty.
Thank you 🙂