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08-16-2010, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Tturtle View Post
How can I get a japanese seal? It's the little red stamp with the japanese characters. I want to use it to stamp my paintings.

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You do not stamp art work with inkan or hanko. There are other stamps for it (gagouin would be one example), usually carved in seal script. If you stamp your art with inkan, it will look like an orchid with lice.

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Originally Posted by Nyororin View Post
A lot of artists carve their own. It`s not too hard to do, and kids have to make them for school.
The easiest way is to carve it out of a large eraser.
You could not be more wrong. Carving a seal requires a lot of knowledge. You can carve them yourself, given that you have a skill in calligraphy and are manually dexterous, knowing what you are doing. It is like calligraphy in wood. Two skills in one. You could order one, too, it costs between 100-300 bucks.

Last edited by ryuurui : 08-16-2010 at 04:26 PM.
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