Block Printing in Art Foundations

Although the dates can be debated, historians agree that block printing is an old-world art form that originated from Asia and existed for generations before Johannes Gutenberg’s life-changing invention of the printing press. With this in mind, the Art Foundations students have taken their hand to the exciting art form. As a class, students have met design challenges with perseverance such as navigating inverse images, reasoning through the visual complications of negative and positive areas in drawings, and carving with sharp gouges. It has been nothing short of exciting in the art room.