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You are bidding on 10 hand-printed blank greeting cards featuring the following animals in nature: - zebra - sea turtle - cheetah - dog (Rin Tin Tin) - kiwi bird - pony - opossum - sea lion - dray horse - Pedro Valley squirrel.
Block printing is a kind of relief transfer, in which a smooth surface, usually wood or linoleum (the ?block?), is carved in a design (?engraving?), that can be covered with a layer of special ink, and then pressed to a piece of paper. The ink has previously been spread out with a brayer, which picks up a thin film of ink, and rolls that film onto the block. This process means that a carving will appear on the paper as a white line, and the uncharted surface as a solid field of ink. Many, many copies an be made from a block, so it is a perfect means of sharing art. The medium is best suited for solid forms and negative space, and through cross-hatching and parallel lines, other features emerge. About the Artist Kevin Roddy, Ph.D., professor emeritus of Medieval Studies at UC Davis and block-printing artist residing in Davis, California, first began block printing in 1960, when, fortuitously, his church tore up its rubberized linoleum flooring, so that he inherited what his parish priest called, ?Holy Tiles,? and purchased a wood-carving kit and some oil-based printing ink. Self-taught, Dr. Roddy experimented over the decades with different papers and natural designs, always experimenting with new color combinations. The traditional practice of creating many blocks for one multicolored picture, each block for each color, proved laborious, and so he developed a technique, which he still uses today, of painting a block in many colors that can blend together, just as they do in nature. The marvel for Dr. Roddy is that, unlike most forms of art, the original blocks remain, and can be reused decades later. Dr. Roddy estimates that he has nearly three hundred blocks now, the fruit of fifty years of artistry.
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