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Re: Here's what Subtraction linoleum is

From: Mark Alexander (malexander06)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 18:00:46 PST

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    You can also do subtraction printing with Styrofoam printing blocks. (I
    think it may also be called reduction printing?? or am I mistaken??) My 6th
    grade had an absorbing time using this method in late November and early
    December making holiday greeting cards. And if those nice Styrofoam blocks
    don't fit your budget, collect smooth Styrofoam meat and vegetable trays,
    remembering to wash them really well!! I bought a couple of boxes of
    envelopes, and I cut the blocks to fit them. I also precut paper which when
    folded would fit the envelopes. Next year I'm considering making these cards
    again, this time as a yearbook fund-raiser.

    It sure is good to be back!

    Mark
    K-12 in Region One in Northwest Connecticut
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    From: San D Hasselman <kprs>
    To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet>
    Date: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:53 PM
    Subject: Here's what Subtraction linoleum is

    >OK for all of you who have asked what subtraction linoleum is, I will
    siimplify
    >it, and then if you want specifics you can email me privately.
    >
    >Subtraction linoleum is a way of making multiple prints, in a limited
    edition
    >because the block is destroyed as you work. In other words the linoleum is
    used
    >as a printing block, but instead of doing it one color (i.e.what you cut
    away on
    >the block stays white on the paper and the raised, or uncut area gets
    printed),
    >you use one block to do all of the colors...so if you were printing a green
    >grass foreground, with a blue sky background, with a white cloud and yellow
    sun,
    >you would do the following:
    >
    >1. Carve away everything that would remain white out of the block (the
    cloud).
    >2. Print the whole block the lightest color (yellow sun). You now have a
    piece
    >of paper that is ALL yellow with a white cloud.
    >3. Cut away all that is to remain yellow. Print next color..I probably
    would do
    >the blue (depending on the opaqueness of your inks--you would now have a
    green
    >block, with a yellow sun= blue + yellow = green).
    >4. Cut away all that is to remain green, and then print a darker blue for
    the
    >sky, you would now have a print that is blue sky, yellow sun, white cloud,
    green
    >grass....and destroyed block
    >
    >of course you do multiples on each step, so that you would have more than
    one
    >print, and registration is very important!
    >
    >San D
    >
    >
    >
    >
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