Print Making

Have you ever been working on an awesome linoleum carving and after hours of hard work carving away at that hard surface, fingers bleeding by the end, ink up your block and when you go to print you realize you’ve mistakenly printed the reverse of the image you were going for? Before you throw away all of your fancy carving tools in anger… let me suggest a new product I have only recently discovered, Speedy Carving Blocks by Speedball. These amazing little blocks are made out of a soft flexible eraser like materiel that is just heaven to carve into. Create yummy thin lines with minimal finger cramping. That’s not even best part though; the most interesting thing about these Speedy Carving Blocks has to be that they have the ability to pick up graphite and even some soft inks like a sponge. Do you remember 'Silly Putty', that goo that when you squished onto a piece of news paper picked up the ink and left you with a reverse of that image, now apply that to your block. The Speedy Carving Block has some sort of material in it that will AUTOMATICALLY REVERSE your image. Simply draw out your design with a soft pencil onto paper, press the speedy cut down on top of your drawing with applied pressure, lift, and there you have it, an image reversed without the tears.


Question of the week: What was the most frustrating moment you had with a piece that you were working on and why? Did you fix the problem or simply start over? Comment here with your response in the comment section or in the discussion board on our Facebook Page.


Print By Jodi Dickhaut, 2009 www.Littlefishart.blogspot.com


Thank you all and keep Creating!