for my flags, i knew i wanted to be able to create rubber stamps with symbols of my choosing... it's something i had never done before - so with the arrival of the supplies this morning, i decided to give it a try...
i wanted my first one to be of a lotus - i found this image in robert beer's book 'the encyclopedia of tibetan symbols and motifs' - and used an eraser (instead of the good carving sheets i had ordered)...
while i was carving, my daughter came home from a photography workshop she had been working
and handed me this -
a lotus petal!
she had no idea that i was working on this today (then again, neither did i until an hour earlier)
this stamp is under an 1" square... my stamps for the flags will be at least 3" x 4", maybe 4" x 6" ... i like its rough woodcut effect...
it was a nice affirmation of what i was doing and the start that had been made...
