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The texture and colors are lovely

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thank you so much!

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Sep 9Liked by Sara Barkat

It's amazingly beautiful. I love those blue and turquoise shades, and the new details.

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I'm glad you liked it! I was really happy with how the colors & details turned out :)

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Did you get the original idea for Sadbook from working with woodblock prints? I majored in printmaking "back in the day", but focused primarily on lithography, with a bit of etching and screenprinting thrown in.

Actually, the major was "painting and printmaking" - kind of weird to combine those two ideas into one program, but that's what I had on tap.

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I've actually never worked with woodblock prints! I majored in philosophy but took etching on the side (I think I ended up taking that class 4 times in a row including independent study)—since it took a lot of time I decided to focus just on that rather than a number of different printing techniques. Woodblock prints probably would've been my second choice though (& definitely, seeing them was one of the reasons I was interested in printmaking in the first place; that & curiosity about how the illustrations in old books got such tiny lines)

I guess painting & printmaking kind of makes sense together? At least the painting might help with composition/color skills!

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I really loved Kirchner's expressive style with those old woodcut prints. Etching-wise, we're talking about a plate with chemicals, right? I did that a bit as well, but maybe only for one semester total.

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