{"id":4190,"date":"2025-12-29T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:40:41","slug":"print-pals-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/print-pals-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Pals 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I realised I had never shared any of the Print Pals prints from this year except for January, so I decided to put them all in one post. LOL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my goals for 2025 was to finally learn how to do reduction prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reduction printing is when you print all of the colours using the same block. But with each colour, you carve away bits and pieces of the block to slowly create the image. It’s a great way to get multiple colours, but the catch is that once you move onto the next colour you can’t go back. I liked the philosophical nature of that, and the challenge it creates when it comes to printmaking and one’s creative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve avoided reduction printing for a very long time because I just felt like I couldn’t figure it out.
But 2025 was the year in which I wanted to stop telling myself, “I’m too dumb to do this<\/em>,” and instead say, “I can learn how to do this.”<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m really proud of myself for finally figuring out how to do it, and it’s definitely my preferred method of creating multi-coloured block prints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw this post on Bluesky and decided to use it as inspiration for my Print Pals 2025 series.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So every print I did this year was inspired by a bird I saw in the world around me during that month!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I ended up making September my last Print Pals design. I’ll speak more on it in another post, but I’ve decided to make some big changes to my Patreon and that includes disbanding the Print Pals and Quarterly Coven of Crafty Cats (QCCC) tiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any extra prints I have will be made available possibly in the next shop update (if I remember to add them)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realised I had never shared any of the Print Pals prints from this year except for January, so I decided to put them all in one post. LOL One of my goals for 2025 was to finally learn how to do reduction prints. Reduction printing is when you print all of the colours using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[16,21,19,20],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-patreon","tag-art","tag-patreon","tag-printmaking","tag-printmaking-pals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lioninthetrees.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}