Black Bird Rubber Stamp

 

Here is a hand carved rubber stamp I made a few weeks 

ago for a publication called Gothic Blackbird.

 

I thought it would be interesting to show the 

rubber stamp carving printed on two different 

background colors.

It gives a different feel to the carving

depending on what color paper you stamp on.

 

I love birds, and would most likely carve

them all day if I could!

We recently put a Hummingbird feeder

outside of our kitchen sink window. What a 

fantastic show we have had all Summer long!

We could see all kinds of battles and

aerial dog fights whilst doing our dishes!

Talk about free entertainment :)

 

Another interesting thing that I had never had the 

opportunity to see before, was their little tongue

going in and out after sipping. Just like 

they were licking their 'lips' !

However, for rubber stamp carving I will stick to the

less delicate bird families! 

Unless, of course, someone can convince me otherwise! 

Here is an image that I never thought

of carving into a rubber stamp until someone requested it for

a logo. In my shop on etsy, Sparrow Foot Stamps, I have

many different hand carved rubber stamps, and 

I also offer custom logo designs, like the example above!

It is like an adventure when someone asks me

to design something for them. It gives me a thrill that I can't describe.

It is often something that I have never thought of carving into a 

rubber stamp before. So it can be a challenge to 

design something, but it is a good challenge and

I love the process of it all. From the original drawing

to the hand carving of the stamp, and the printing of it!

I enjoy making something that can be so

usable and still very artistic!

Rubber stamp carvings are so individual, just

 like the people that I carve them for!

Uncle Bud

 

My very first post!

This blog is dedicated to rubber stamp carvings,

 primarily,but also prints made from other 

types of carvings now and then.

This is a print from a rubber stamp carving I recently finished 

of my Uncle Bud, a fabulous wood carver, now retired at 90.

When he was cleaning out some of his supplies and unfinished 

starts I noticed he was going to throw a half finished bird, a Robin , I think, away! I couldn't bear the thought. And now it sits in my kitchen and I love looking at it-and thinking of him- every time I walk by.

 Sometimes little things like that are so important, a little thread that connects us to the ones that we love so dearly. I know if he wasn't stricken with Alzheimer's he would still be carving and would most likely have loved creating hand carved images on rubber, too.