It’s true.

Our next printmaking project is to make a print that has multiple colors in it. This can be done one of two ways: reduction, which involves printing all you want of one color, then carving away that area and doing the next color (this means that you will be unable to use your block after you finish, so make sure you figure out how many you want in the edition; also, the people in charge of the studio have explained this process to us several times and I still don’t fully understand it), or going into the wood shop and cutting up your block using a lovely tool called a scroll saw, which essentially makes your block into a jigsaw puzzle, each piece of which you ink individually. Not only is this easier for me to understand, but my inner child loved the idea, so that’s what I did. I haven’t inked or printed yet, but I probably will either this weekend or Monday.

In other news, I made a friend in my 2D Foundations section! Her name is Kendall and she’s kind of a Japanophile and she’s crazy like me! I guess this is what happens when you actually talk to people and don’t skulk around in a corner with your headphones on, looking suspiciously at everyone else out of the corners of your eyes like a paranoid misanthrope. I should try it more often.

Also I am considering participating in the annual UCSC Print Sale! It will be a lot of paperwork but I might get money from it and, as any D&D player could tell you, the best way to motivate anyone is to appeal to their sense of greed, so we’ll see. Even if I don’t end up doing it, if anyone reading this happens to be in the Santa Cruz area in early June, you should come check it out! As much as I enjoy making fun of art majors, we do have a lot of good work in the art department, and it’s always worth a look.

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