Stamp 2-9-15

I walked out to the studio this evening to work on my stamp for the week and noticed this frost pattern on the front porch.  I took several pictures of it but could not capture the essence I was looking for but did enjoy the spiral pattern.  When I was doing the drawing I wanted one that was slightly larger on one end so that when I stamp into the clay and flip the stamp over it will create a spiral pattern down the piece as I stamp around.  We will find out if it worked when its bisque fired and I can try it out!

I started out looking at frost on the studio porch. But couldn’t quite capture the essence of what I was looking at.

this frost almost looks like ferns or grass waving in the wind.

I used sketch # 14 to create the stamp.

Stamp 2-8-15

Check out this decorative grass I saw on my run this morning! Isn’t it cool the way it spirals in?

Another view of the decorative grass. Looking forward to the sketches and stamp that will evolve from this.

here are my sketches and lump of clay. Looking forward to creating!

nice long elegant spiral…

Introducing stamp 2-8-15

Stamp 2-7-15

So I started out these sketches with my middle and last initial.  L for Linore and S for Schissel.  Then I started day dreaming about curves and breaking it down a little further to individual parts of the letters and came up with this leaf pattern.

Initials that dissolve into imagination…

I settled on sketch #23

The beginning. I have cut out the outline of the leaves

I cut away the excess clay.

and cleaned it up, taking out the inside of the leaves and giving the outside edges a clean crisp line.

The finished stamp. 2-7-15

Stamp 2-6-15

This pattern will require 2 stamps to be made

This turned out pretty neat. When its paired with the next stamp it should make a pretty cool pattern.

Stamp #2

Completed stamp #2