Steamroller relief printing is beautiful and ARTASTIC fun. Relief printing is beautiful and goes back hundreds of years, as a process where a protruding surface is inked and brought into contact with paper. Around the world, steamrollers are used to print large-scale relief blocks. Ten artists' creations are to be printed for a big outdoor printmaking event pulling 4-foot prints out from under a 5-ton construction machine. A relief image is created by cutting from MFD materials (medium-density fiberboard to remove a layer of wood that will not hold ink. A roller applies one color of ink to the raised areas. The image will be one color and remain white or the color of the paper.

Artists will register for 4 x 4 feet wide MDF board to be carved relief images at least two weeks before the steam-roller event. All inking of relief plates will be done at the event to print.