Making Heat Embossed Art

Following on from my ideas in my previous two posts (Heat Embossed Gift Tag Card and Experimenting with Heat Embossing), I decided to try and incorporate heat embossing into my artwork. I thought it would be a great way to add texture or accents to my usual style of working.

These are still works in progress, not completed pieces, but I love how they have turned out so far. Read on to take a look.

To do the heat embossing, I used an ink pad and a circle stencil to create the pattern and then embossed it with clear powder so that you could see the colour of the ink through.

I went over the embossing with a palette knife and a mix of colours to match the colour I’d used for the ink pad. I tried to scrape a thinner layer over the embossed areas, so that the texture could still be seen and wouldn’t get lost under a layer of thick paint.

These are my results.

In the following example I took a print from stencil, giving me a print of the outlines of the circles, which I then embossed.

I feel like these are just the start of this process. I want to use other stencils, stamps, or try and make my own marks which I can then emboss to create texture. As for the pieces above, I’m not sure where to take them at the moment, so I’ll keep hold of them until I am.