I haven’t played with pigment ink for a long time—I mean, a really long time. I’ve gotten so used to quick-drying dye-based ink and forgot how lovely it is to brayer and blend and even stamp with slow-drying pigment ink….
Category: stamps
I do have a lot of stamps. Not as many as I used to, before we moved from Portland to Amsterdam—I went through all my stamps and gave away or put into storage the stamps I rarely or never used….
Here’s a little story about something called Eclectica³. You know I love vintage books, ephemera, flea market treasures…well, they’re wonderful because they are so unique and precious. The downside is that once you use them in a collage piece, they’re…
On Sunday I headed off to Zeist, a town about an hour from Amsterdam by train, for the Art Specially stamp show. This is the fourth year I’ve gone to the show, and I always find something new—usually at the…