Melon Book ...working sketches for stamps1981-2024

 when I make these stamps, here selected rubber stamps, blocks and stencils 1981-2024, I usually start with working sketches like this Melon Book from nature sources ....there are asemic markings everywhere, in rocks, plants, clouds, water, animal skins, banana peels, dirt, old walls, shadows whatever but I have even more semantic images too...

...new prints on linen...from ASTROPOOL...

ASTRO Print 2023. Acrylic on linen. 95 x 93.5 cm. 37.4 x 36.8 inches. Hand block print. Because spacecraft have curved walls. Unmounted, frame, mount on stretchers, or hang. From ASTROPOOL project 2023. ceceliachapman.com/astro-prints

 

INFINITY Print 2023. Acrylic on linen. 95 x 93.5 cm. 37.4 x 36.8 inches. Hand block print. Because spacecraft have curved walls. Unmounted, frame, mount on stretchers, or hang. From ASTROPOOL project 2023. ceceliachapman.com/astro-prints

...wrestlers, samurai, thieves, actors, warriors, heros3...at the Asian Museum...

Japanese woodblock prints 1800's

 

...wrestlers, samurai, thieves, actors, warriors, heros2...at the Asian Museum...

Japanese woodblock prints 1800's

 

...wrestlers, samurai, thieves, actors, warriors, heros1....at the Asian Museum...

Japanese woodblock prints 1800's