Thirty-something years ago I took a printmaking survey course that allowed students to study two of three techniques: relief, intaglio and silkscreen. I chose to learn intaglio and silkscreen because “Everyone knows how to do relief prints. They’re like rubber stamps, right?” I loved etching, but without access to an intaglio press my printmaking practice came to a screeching halt at the end of class. Ten years later I started dabbling in relief printing, because it was a process that required only simple carving tools, a brayer and a spoon. Fast forward another ten years and my dabbling turned to ...