Here are a couple videos showing the making process.
Something that has been interesting me for a while is the concept of block printing. I love using backdrops in my work and I'm interested in somehow incorporating fictitious textiles as backgrounds. Wall paper began to be used more as a cheep substitute for fabric textiles. It found it's way both in Eastern and Western cultures resulting in what we see now. Block printing began to rise in popularity around the 1700's as importation began and cultures mixed.
Typical wall paper we see now in common stores cannot hold a candle to its ancestors.
Legit Block Printers take extreme amounts of time and patience to produce layer upon layer of different colored paints onto the paper. Then it is carefully hung out to dry before being once again laid out and touched up.
Working in this class has made me realize that I love to portray the feeling of theatrics. Though, block printing is far out of my reach, I still am inspired and influenced in the making process of this kind of art.
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