I got the opportunity to take a short class on relief printing (sometimes called block printing.) This is where you carve the negative space out of the surface of a material and then use the remaining positive space to transfer ink to the item you are printing on. Materials used for relief printing range from rubber and cork to plastic and hardwoods. You can print onto any flat surface and any material that will take the ink or paint.
For the class, we did one print using a hard rubber block and one using a cork like material.
Of course, given the option to create a unique work, I chose to make a T3.
Here are my friends working on their pieces:
Here is my T3 relief block, the carving tool, the ink roller and pallet and the pressing tool:
Here is the cloth scarf I printed on:
and the paper:
I had to photo shop the final image for the T3 project so the paper was the right dimensions and proportions.