Cards of Christmas Past: Foam Sheet Prints
Cards of Christmas Past Foam Sheet Prints A few times in the 1990s I printed Christmas cards by a technique I devised that is a variation on linoleum block printing. I glued thin sheets (about 1/8 inch) of closed cell polyolefin foam to blocks of wood and cut out the image outline with an Exacto knife, them peeled away the non-printing areas. This is much easier than cutting a linoleum block. The block is then inked and pressed on the paper. Here's the 1995 card, an angel printed in iridescent ink on parchment paper... And here is a card with a dove, and the printing block... In 2019 I used the same technique to print sets of cork coasters as Christmas gifts for my brothers. The Christmas ball ornaments on the deer head were printed with Q-Tips. The image references a family tradition where my mother decorated a taxidermy deer head in the living room for the holidays, a tradition continued by my brother Anson and wife Marie who inherited Dad's trophy (lower picture).