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Re: [teacherartexchange] Block printing question

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From: Barbara Marder (marder621_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2011 - 19:28:52 PDT

No-the image was very faint-meaning the ink did not coat the block well or stayed on the block instead of printing.

If I coat the block with the brayer-that did work well but the block is small and inking it for each print took a great deal of time and not possible for my large classes..

I will do the project when I figure out a practical way to do it.

Thanks!

Barbara

On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:17 AM, San D Hasselman wrote:

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> Part of the charm of block printing is the image that is not quite "perfect". If you want a perfect opaque image you silkscreen. Also for consistant results with block printing a press is desired. We always used a clean brayer on the back of the print to make the contact with block/ink/paper. As for tessellations, we actually DID do tessellations, and then made them into linoleum blocks and printed them. They came out great.
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> San D
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