Video: Relief Printmaking Small Block Ideas

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Using small blocks in relief printmaking in a repetitive pattern can create a large interesting piece. Learn other printing ideas with expertise from a printmaker in this free printmaking video.

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Working large and being experimental with the way in which you produce your prints gives you a lot of options. In this print for example there is this fairly illegible but recognizable as cursive writing that is repeated throughout this very large area. And often times when people see this print they ask me how difficult it was for me to carve those minute elements of this text on such a very large block of wood, but in fact what I did was, is I simply repeated this single block of wood over and over and over again using a ruler and printing on to the paper in successive times in order to get what appears to be a single sentence in this text but in actuality it is simply repeated. And you can see how the text again it's illegible and it's meant really only to be viewed as single and it's accentuated by the fact that it is actually repeated. Which gives it a nice sort of flowing composition, it allows me to print in a large area or using a block of wood that is only, actually it's only half of the block of wood that was cut.

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Relief Printmaking Small Block Ideas

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