Hi all,
As for the "Urban" Box in Evanston IL. Evanston is a
very nice, laid back, midwestern, affluent suburb of
Chicago. Not your typical park or path in a city.
One must remember that this is in suburbia, people for
the most part would respect the box if they stubled
across it. As for the other two boxes I can not say,
I have never been to them, I have not been to the one
in Evanston either, but I was by it a bunch of times
when I lived in Chicagoland. I did not know of
letterboxing at that time.
I think if someone is going to place a box in a city
or an area where a lot of people are going to be in
the vacinity of the box (this holds true for public
campgrounds) one needs to be very creative in thier
hiding stratagy.
My $0.02 worth on that subject.
Now on to stamps! I have really gotten into carving
stamps these last few weeks. Has anyone tried
lineloium? I worked on a piece that was pre mounted
on a block of wood, it was porbably the best carving
medium yet, not to firm or too soft and virtually no
grain. The drawback is that you need to press REALLY
hard to get an impression, I guess you really need
those rollers that they sell. So that is impractical
for the field. I was thinking has anyone tried using
the unmounted linolium pieces. Cam you get an
impression off of those without pressing to hard. Or
is it the soft eraser that allows one to get a print
so easily.
Mr. Jay Drew, how do you get your stamps to be
multi-colored before you place your books? They
always look so nice, I wish we could all get them the
way you intend.
Has anyone in S.E. CT found a carving medium that has
substantial size, beside the E-ZCut stuff which seems
to be very crumbly?
Thanks for listing:
Stan
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Urban boxes, etc
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2000-08-14
Urban boxes, etc
From: stanley shostak (Chef_Stan@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2000-08-14 11:45:30 UTC-07:00
Re: Urban boxes, etc
From: Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-08-15 01:14:59 UTC
> Mr. Jay Drew, how do you get your stamps to be
> multi-colored before you place your books? They
> always look so nice, I wish we could all get them the
> way you intend.
> Has anyone in S.E. CT found a carving medium that has
> substantial size, beside the E-ZCut stuff which seems
> to be very crumbly?
>
Stan, Thanks! We didn't really appreciate the stamp-art part at
first, but recently we've "discovered" that dimension of
letterboxing. I guess the coloring began at the recent "Gathering,"
when we saw Tom, John, and John's kids using different colors of inks
and special inking pens to get special effects out of their stamps.
(Tom, by the way, has the gentle habit of rubbing his ink onto the
stamp rather than actually mashing it). So what we do is pick 2 or
three complimentary colors and put them onto the stamp one at a time.
Kind of like the old fashioned printing presses, execpt we do it all
in one stamping rather than multiple passes. I really like the Cat's
Eye brand of inkers: they're tiny enough for near-precision work,
they have high quality ink, and the cat's eye shape gives you a sharp
edge to reach into corners and onto little letters and such.
We always try to hide a stamp pad with our boxes, too, but using it
would give you a monochromatic impression. We carry a little bag of
Cat's Eye inkers (that clatter pleasantly in the backpack) to use
when we stamp up other folk's stamps. The colors, especially if you
use a good art-grade paper journal, really make the stamp part of
this pastime a special thing. Check out Mitch's "Der Mad Stamper"
website for lots more info.
Sorry for the longwindedness, but it's fun!
Jay
> multi-colored before you place your books? They
> always look so nice, I wish we could all get them the
> way you intend.
> Has anyone in S.E. CT found a carving medium that has
> substantial size, beside the E-ZCut stuff which seems
> to be very crumbly?
>
Stan, Thanks! We didn't really appreciate the stamp-art part at
first, but recently we've "discovered" that dimension of
letterboxing. I guess the coloring began at the recent "Gathering,"
when we saw Tom, John, and John's kids using different colors of inks
and special inking pens to get special effects out of their stamps.
(Tom, by the way, has the gentle habit of rubbing his ink onto the
stamp rather than actually mashing it). So what we do is pick 2 or
three complimentary colors and put them onto the stamp one at a time.
Kind of like the old fashioned printing presses, execpt we do it all
in one stamping rather than multiple passes. I really like the Cat's
Eye brand of inkers: they're tiny enough for near-precision work,
they have high quality ink, and the cat's eye shape gives you a sharp
edge to reach into corners and onto little letters and such.
We always try to hide a stamp pad with our boxes, too, but using it
would give you a monochromatic impression. We carry a little bag of
Cat's Eye inkers (that clatter pleasantly in the backpack) to use
when we stamp up other folk's stamps. The colors, especially if you
use a good art-grade paper journal, really make the stamp part of
this pastime a special thing. Check out Mitch's "Der Mad Stamper"
website for lots more info.
Sorry for the longwindedness, but it's fun!
Jay