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Your question made me curious as I have never heard of this. But I found quite a few YouTubes of her doing it. Here's one, and if you look to the side you'll see others:
Really very lovely technique. But it looks like you are using the stamps really as an outline for the painting. And she uses a very heavy bodied paint so she can mix the colors on the brush.
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Yes, it's basically folk art painting with the stamped image as a guide. The stamps are nice as regular stamps as well if you don't want to break out the paints. Each set comes with a guide to the brush strokes and colours for each bit of the image and a wipe-clean sheet to practise on.
As Rachel Rose says, you'll find Sheena doing demos on YouTube although I think it's "taster" stuff but I don't have the DVD so can't say for sure.
These stamps are among my favorites, and they're great with other mediums besides acrylic paints too - I have also used them with watercolors and alcohol markers. There are samples on my blog here:
I usually don't care for the style of blending represented in folk art/tole painting; so I will pass on the paint fusion technique. Perhaps I will try a set of the stamps though. All the various components must make for quite a different image each time you compose with them. The poppies set looks great---though I need another poppy image like a hole in the head.
Poppy stamps are one category I never get tired of. ;)
I'll agree with you on the folk art painting - I do like using the stamps with acrylic paints but from there I tend to do my own abstract thing. I really really like using them with watercolors, and the no-line technique. Simple outline images are the best for learning to blend and shade, too.
I used to do Tole Painting back oh, maybe 25 years ago. This is exactly the same thing, only back then we used tracing paper and a carbon. That was always tricky when you had to paint white over the carbon line, lol. I think this is an interesting way to use rubber stamps, but I'm pretty happy with Copics, color pencils and water color.
Paint Fusion by Sheena Douglass
