The first project of the year was the Carving Stamps. I did something similar to this project a few years ago, but it was with a bigger piece of carving block. So I knew what I was doing, after I remembered what this project was. With the theme of this project being nature, I drew a bunch of designs first. Which were different flowers and a tree, it seemed like everyone was doing flowers so I decided to do a tree.
After finishing my designs I took my piece of block, and put the piece of paper with the design that I made over the block. And then took a pencil and shaded the back of the block on the paper. So when I took the paper off, my design for my stamp was on the block. So all I needed to do was trace it with sharpie and then start carving.
I liked the idea of the tree, because I thought it would look cool with some type of design. So on my block I had a tree with leaves falling off of it. It was something different. When it was time to stamp I colored my stamp with green paint. And as a interesting thought I thought of making a large tree out of the little tree that's on my stamp. It didn't come out the way I wanted it to, because the shape of the tree didn't really look like a tree. So I made another idea on a colorful sheet of paper. And put the trees around the border of the paper, making a frame. I loved how the second one came out.
Then for the group project we did vertical lines going down the decorative paper, with different routines of the other stamps that the people had in our group. It came out really good and creative.