This is another of the cards I will be doing for the ladies down at the Senior Center on Friday. It's a new stamp from Hero Arts. I wanted to do a modern art type of card, so I went with funky colors. I was going to add weird angles and shapes but then thought it would take to long to make in class. In the first draft I used a Stardust pen to add some shimmer but it just didn't look right so that one got tossed out. Yes, I do throw out a lot of samples. It takes several rounds to get something that looks nice but still be able to teach. That's one mistake new rubber stamp teachers make. They come up with great cards but when you have a classroom full of people it's hard to translate and teach.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
This is another of the cards I will be doing for the ladies down at the Senior Center on Friday. It's a new stamp from Hero Arts. I wanted to do a modern art type of card, so I went with funky colors. I was going to add weird angles and shapes but then thought it would take to long to make in class. In the first draft I used a Stardust pen to add some shimmer but it just didn't look right so that one got tossed out. Yes, I do throw out a lot of samples. It takes several rounds to get something that looks nice but still be able to teach. That's one mistake new rubber stamp teachers make. They come up with great cards but when you have a classroom full of people it's hard to translate and teach.
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