I have been playing around with organic oval shapes in my paintings and when I spotted these cardboard cacti made out of oval-ish shapes I thought I could paint the shapes all funky colors and make silly cacti. Maybe even some tiny ones and even a super-sized one. Pop on over to teh blog The House that Lard Built for the easy tutorial on how to make cardboard cacti. These might be fun out of printed packaging or book covers?
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Blind and texture embossing techniques
If you are a fan of adding subtle elements to your art this idea for embossing shapes and textures could be just the technique you will want to try. I haven’t had much success in the past but the tips included in the post over at The Curious Printmaker on how to blind emboss just might turn that around.
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