Sooo I didn't ever finish it because this was the biggest pain in my butt ever. I definitely will never pursue sculpting or carving as a career. We took these rubber type blocks and carved a design in them. Sounds simple enough but you first had to come up with the design on paper, then transfer that design onto the block (hoping you don't move so you don't totally screw it up), and then you didn't carve out what you wanted to be there but what you didn't want in there. This also may seem fairly straight forward but this was extremely different than anything else we have done because with everything else we were just focusing on the design and putting that on paper. We now had to focus on getting rid of all the excess in order for the design to show. Me being me and always somehow making my life harder on myself, I didn't choose the simplest design. This caused it to be EXTREMELY difficult to carve out, which is why I never actually got around to the printing part. I would carve my little heart out everyday in class but i still never seemed to finish. Quite frustrating actually. If I were able to finish it though, I would have been able to put paint on my block and make prints of my beautiful design. I'd say that accuracy and detail were more important in this specific project than any other project we have done yet, because once you carved something you couldn't put it back so you had to be absolutely sure about what you were taking out. This is a really cool idea in theory but I don't think that I will go out of my way to make a block print ever again. I think that the most important thing I got out of this project was that sometimes simplicity really is best. (Sorry there's no picture of my disaster-piece, but as I said earlier... It never got finished :( )
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January 2016
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