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Article: High relief block printing. (Printmaking)
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- School Arts
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- November 1, 1989
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HIGH RELIEF BLOCK PRINTING
My students always enjoyed the printmaking process and had recently explored the possibilities of drawing (incising) on slabs of thin Styrofoam and taking prints from the inked surface. That was an exciting and successful experience. I now wanted to carry it further into the area of high relief printmaking to see just how children would use a very common and freely available material for the making of a block quite different from any they had experienced before.
At my request, the butcher in the local supermarket gave me a stack of large white Styrofoam plates. "No charge," he said. "They're worth next to nothing and we have ...