Last Thursday, at the Johnson, we carved linoleum. For those of you who don’t know what linoleum carving is, it’s a print-making technique in which you utilize a sharp, curved tool to work away at a pliable but tough rubbery surface. Because it is a print-making technique, it’s important to keep in mind while carving that what you carve away will be both reversed and negated eventually when you print it. I’ve taken a print-making class before, and for a project, we had to carve away at the same block gradually, printing different layers of colors in intervals until we achieved the picture we wanted. In this class, we did a simple, single-layer color block.