Using Potatoes to make relief prints for the wallpaper was originally very exciting, but quickly turned into more than i bargained for. While i highly enjoyed the results, the entire printing process was EXTREMELY time consuming. (Amusingly enough, at the end of printing the wallpaper, i was left with some pretty big bruises on my palms. Not fun!)
I also learned that while potatoes leave an excellent mark, they are not a long lasting form of stamp. After making a few hundred prints, the stamp slowly began to degrade and change. (After completing two of the wall panels [depicted in the bottom two images] I still had 70+ Ft. to go.) While i originally started out with just one stamp, by the end of the printing process i was using variety of 4 different hand-cut potato stamps.
