Experimenting with tangles, embossing, watercolors & carving

After watching the video on how to float the colors the right way. I redid the two from last night so the color is much more vivid.

I love the way these turned out. I am a bit impatient with  the process of stopping to hit it with the heat gun every time I filled in a section.  So I wanted to come up with a faster way for the embossing part.

So I decided to start carving a stamp.  I understand how to carve where you do not want the lines.  While thinking about this I started to lose the relaxing part of tangling. If I am not fully enjoying it I need to change things so I decided to just use my cutting tool like a marker. I knew it would leave some bigger areas for printing but it was worth it just for the enjoyment I was getting out of the cutting process.  The rubber is 4.5" x 5"  I just went for it and embossed it in black one it was all carved.

Next I just inked it with a marker and made this print.

I squirted the stamp with water and made two more prints on blue paper.

Two more prints before drying the stamp off with a paper towel.

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