I carved this shelf full of books back in late May, but it seemed less exciting than some of the others I was doing around the same time. I made some more impressions on the Strathmore paper, and gave them the watercolor pencil treatment. I think the color punches it up a lot.

A white rectangle of paper imprinted with the image of a bookshelf with eleven books of different sizes. One book in the middle is tilted to the left within a larger gap. The books have been colored in with brown, blue, green, red, orange, purple, and yellow. The hand-carved white blocky eraser that made the impression is laying face-up across the upper right corner. Both are on a brown surface.
Hand-Carved Bookshelf Eraser Stamp with Watercolor Pencil
A white rectangle of paper imprinted with the image of a bookshelf with eleven books of different sizes. One book in the middle is tilted to the left within a larger gap. The hand-carved white blocky eraser that made the impression is laying face-up across the upper right corner. Both are on a brown surface.
Hand-Carved Bookshelf Eraser Stamp
A white rectangle of paper imprinted with the image of a bookshelf with eleven books of different sizes. One book in the middle is tilted to the left within a larger gap. The hand-carved white blocky eraser that made the impression is laying face-up across the upper right corner. Both are on a surface of dark green crepe paper (chirimen).
Hand-Carved Bookshelf Eraser Stamp

There is a one-minute bookshelf stamping and coloring video on YouTube.

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