Erasercut

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There are many people now doing carvings on a flat, flexible rubber to create an image to be printed. The most widely used term for prints made from carvings on this material is “Erasercut” because the flexible rubber is a large, flat eraser made to be carved into a rubber stamp or to be used as a plate to ink and create a print from. The medium is also called, “Stenocut.” Those who use it not for fine art but for creating stamps call it, “rubber stamping.” Before erasercut, there was linocut. Linocutting was validated as an acceptable way to produce an original work of fine visual art when Pablo Picasso began to use it for such a purpose. It has been a respected printmaking media since then. Similar to a woodcut, a linocut is created from a carving on a slab of linoleum, sometimes alone, and sometimes glued onto a block of wood to create lasting straightness and firmness.