S&T stands for "skills and theory," Janet referred to in her blog Making Emeralda, which lead the five objectives of our game-in-the-making, Emeralda. Both skills and theory are prime movers in my own passion for the art. Someone playing our game will find these "bottled" for them, like vintage wine.
Skills and theory are an inseparable complementary pair. In the fine art of printmaking, you can't have one without the other. It's black-and-white, yin-yang. There's also history to learn. When did printmaking start? Why? Where? How? Who started printing? History (or, in Emeralda lexicon, her story) is the bedrock of printmaking theory I am bottling for Emeralda players who want to study printmaking in this the age of digital reproduction.
For beginning printmakers I made a target design with four rings. The bulls-eye and the three outer rings denote the four printing processes. They are relief, stencil, intaglio and planographic (or plano). However, theory tells us these are not separate all the time; we can mix them up; Emeralda is not only about the skills of printmaking. It's about creativity, too, in theory.
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