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Carve December Part 1

14 Sunday Dec 2025

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, carve december

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Art Journal, block design, block print, block printing, block prints, carve december, handcarved blocks, handcarved stamps, handmade books, Instagram Challenge, paper bag art journal, paper bag book, paper-collage, paperbag book

I love Carve December! It is an Instagram challenge started and hosted by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer of Balzer Designs. She provides prompts for each day of the month and people carve stamps (blocks) inspired by those prompts, or whatever. I have generally been one of the “whatever” carvers but this year I am following the prompts and having a lot of fun with it. I am curious if you can guess what the prompts might be based on what I carved. I would love it if you would leave a comment with your ideas.

I have made another paper bag art journal to capture all of the printed goodness.

Happy holidays!

100 Day Project Wrap Up

03 Monday Jun 2024

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in 100 Day Project, Art

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100 Day Project, 100 Mandalas, Art, block print, block printing, block prints, blue block prints, botanical, botanical art, botanical collage, botanical prints, collage, colorful, Colorful art, floral art, floral still life, flower art, handcarved blocks, handcarved stamps, handmade cards, Mandala, seed of life, seed of life mandala

I finished the 100 day project again this year and felt it was my most successful one ever. This amazing set of torus mandala and seed of life mandala blocks and some coordinating center blocks will entertain me for years to come. Would you be interested in playing with one of the different sized sets? What size? Which combinations do you like best?

Here are the prints I made using these blocks and a page of sampler prints of my medium sized torus mandala. To see the development and samplers for the small and large torus mandalas and the seed of life mandalas see my previous post.

Still life pieces made by mixing and matching gelli printed papers and book pages snuck into all the mandala printing. I carved leaf and flower blocks and a block print template to make the different components. I plan to teach this as a class that can be easily modified for differing ability levels. I’m also thinking about putting these samples up for sale in a local gallery for $25 each. (details to follow)

I love to make cards with my blocks and here are some quick thank you cards I made. One of my goals was to print on fabric by the end of the 100 day project and I was successful in that I did make an attempt. It was a good learning experience and shows that I have plenty more to explore with block printing!

Let me know if you have a favorite piece or want prints of something from my Fine Art America product on demand shop. I don’t have everything uploaded so just let me know what you’re interested in and I will get it there for you.

Thanks for stopping by!

My 100 Day Project for 2024 February

02 Saturday Mar 2024

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all the colors, block print, block printing, block prints, colorful, Colorful art, full spectrum, handcarved blocks, handcarved stamps, Mandala, mandalas, primary colors, rainbow colors, secondary colors, Torus Mandala, Zentangle Inspired Art

I am continuing my exploration of block printing for my 100 day project. I have been so excited about exploring torus mandalas and now I’m playing with the seed of life mandala.

Torus Mandalas and Color Schemes

06 Tuesday Feb 2024

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Art, block print, block prints, blue art, blue block prints, blue botanical prints, botanical prints, handcarved blocks, handcarved stamps, Mandala, meditation, tessellated block print, Torus Mandala, Versafine Clair Ink

I have continued my pattern play and have carved a variety of blocks to use in small and large torus mandalas. I have been having a lot of fun on Instagram following along with the Printer Solstice challenge hosted by Susana McDonnell. She provides a color combination prompt and I use various combinations of blocks and colors to create examples of the color scheme. Here I have posted some of my monochrome blue mandalas and some analogous yellow, green, blue mandalas. These are my favorite colors schemes if I have to pick, but I am enjoying all of the interesting combinations!

I am slowing uploading them to my Etsy shop as digital downloads for an extremely reasonable price. The larger mandalas are about 18 inches in diameter and the smaller ones are about 9 inches in diameter, but you can print them whatever size you want!

Big blue torus mandala

Yellow dahlia large torus mandala in analogous colors, yellow, green, blue. My followers on Instagram appreciated the photos with the blocks laid out to help see how these are constructed.

I have quite a few more printed but printing is a lot more fun that photographing and posting them. I hope you will check back in my Etsy shop to see if some new combinations of blocks and colors are available!

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