How To Create Cool Backgrounds with Stamps

Hello, I am glad to see you here at Rubber Dance art stamps! My name is Gabriele from Art-a-tag and I am a mixed media artist from Germany.

I mostly work intuitively and don´t really plan ahead. I let the process lead me and often I find interesting figures emerging from my backgrounds, I can work on. This time I made a background with wild scribbles using charcoal, found a colour range I liked, and made many, many marks with a stencil and a lot of Rubber Dance stamps. I am sorry, I got carried away, so the first photo I can present, already shows the silhouette of a cat. You can very well see the background with all marks.

I stamp in different colours, to give it more interest. Some marks are hard to see, but they are there. I use the stamps unmounted, so I can bend them and place them easier even on small spots.

The cat found a mouse!! I lightened the background surrounding the cat - looks better. I left the body of the cat mostly untouched to show all the mark making, but there is still something missing.

That´s better! Sorry for the shiny parts, that is acrylic emulsion, I fixed the charcoal with. Now some finishing touches and I am done. I show you some details so you can see the stamping better and how it creates more interest in the background:

Background stamp "Flourishes"

Background stamps "Grunge Swirls" and "Vintage Script"

Background stamps "Grunge Swirls" and "Flourishes"

Background stamps "Flourishes" in two colours. You can also see, that I use pen, pencils and crayons for some finishing touches.

Now here is the final picture:

The picture needed a contrasting colour, so I thought this light teal would do the job nicely. Finished! I like it, that the background with all its beautiful marks shows. It is so easy, creating an interesting background with Rubber Dance stamps!

If you have any questions feel free to contact me and visit me on my blog.

Supply list:

Charcoal and acrylic emulsion to fix it

acrylic paint various brands yellow, red, orange, black, violet, light teal.

Neocolors II, pencil, black and white pen.

StazOn Ink: Orange Zest, Pumpkin, Cherry Pink, St. Valentine and Cloudy Sky.

The Rubber Dance stamps I used:

"Grunge Swirls", "Flourishes",  "Vintage Script" and "Vintage Postcard"

I wish you a very happy and creative time!

Gabriele from Art-a-tag

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