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Pennywise Arts is
starting 2008 off with a special group order of the new Fred Mullett
stamps, at 10% off retail prices! And to make it super easy for you
to order, they have been added to the Pennywise Arts website. Simply click on the leaf image
above to access all 11 group images
of the 2008 Fred Mullett supplement, and add them to your shopping
cart! You can also get to the page via this link:
http://www.pennywisearts.com/fm1.html
Please remember this is a Pre-Order. We will leave the special order
shopping cart on the website through Jan 15, 2008 and then we will place our group
order. We expect to get the stamps approximately 2-3 weeks
after we order the stamps from the manufacturer, and then we will
send them to you.
You are free to order additional items along with your stamps, but
they will be held and shipped all together once the stamp order
arrives here, unless other arrangements are made. Because of the
size and weight of the stamps, we may request more money to cover
your shipping costs. As always, we will do our best to keep your
shipping price as low as possible and still meet our high standards!
Please note: This special offer is restricted to the Fred Mullett
2008 Supplement stamps shown on the Specials page. We will not be
ordering from the general catalog at this time.
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Watercolor Fish
by Fred Mullett
Supplies:
- Watercolor paper (hot
press or cold press with fine grain surface) or suitable
printmaking paper such as Domestic Etching
Rubber stamp
Stamp positioner
Water-based markers. (Although
this technique a very suitable to use with markers,
watercolor paint can also be utilized for a more archival
work.)
Misting
bottle.
Water-based white paint
Small
watercolor brush (#1 or #2)
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The watercolor paper is
stretched to insure as smooth a working surface as
possible. (Water will warp most all paper, but more so
if it is not stretched.)
Water-based markers are
applied to the rubber stamp. A fine misting of water
is applied to the stamp to break down the detail
inherent in the rubber image. This watery image is
then place on the paper. Before it dries, the rubber
is sprayed again and another diffused image is place
on the paper. In this case, the images are tilted up
and down to suggest movement and overlapped to suggest
depth. NOTE - Do not add more color to the rubber
during this process as the decreasing amount of marker
will contribute to images that appear to recede into
the background.
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After this first series
has dried, we can focus attention to a particular
image (or parts of an image) through the application
of darker and more vibrant colors. In order to overlay
these adjustments exactly onto one of our first
diffused images, a stamp positioner is used. Selected
portions of the stamp are inked with darker and/or
stronger color and again diffused with water. The
overlapping of these new colors will cause our
attention to be further be drawn to that one
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After this has dried, we
can now make final adjustments using, in this case,
very dark and also very intense colors.
After the entire piece was allowed to dry for several
days (to insure a flat smooth paper), it was signed,
matted and framed and is now ready to be hung. |
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Note the
shaping of the eye from the middle step to the
last. The white of the eye in step 2 was shaped using
a darker color on the bottom to suggest a shadow and
then faded up. It was also created using a
complementary color to the greens in order to attract
attention. The black dot in the center was added to
create the iris, with a white highlight added for
effect.
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