Recycled Styrofoam Block Prints

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Jenny Ryan is an artist, crafter, and maker of things. She lives in Los Angeles with a pack of various animals (including her husband) and writes about her adventures in creating at Exit Through the Thrift Shop.

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November 4th, 2008 4

MBear from Craftster has been experimenting with using styrofoam food packaging to carve cool linoleum-style blocks for printmaking. The results are fantastic!

4 thoughts on “Recycled Styrofoam Block Prints”

Ingrid Ironquill says:

November 5th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

you should hang out with teachers more often ;) that’s an age-old trick, and a technique taught in faculties of education at universities across canada for years as well!
mleak says:

November 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

Thanks for the post. PS — it’s “mleak” on craftster/flickr or “artbear” on etsy. Not sure where mbear came from :)