In the art form of block printing, artists carve out spaces in the block they want to be blank, and when the block is rolled with ink, the spaces that aren’t carved stamp the paper. For our project, we used linoleum pieces. I decided to carve a keel-billed toucan after a few hours of deliberation because keel-billed toucans are my second favorite animal. After several failed test drawings, I finally completed one that both I and Ms. Asha were satisfied with and began to draw it on the linoleum rectangle with blue colored pencil. Once I was finished, I started to carve out the spots I wanted to be white on the print. However, I accidentally carved out the body of the toucan, which I had planned to make black. So I decided to reverse my original idea and make the background black and the toucan white. My mistake actually turned out to be a stroke of luck, as I noticed that other people had difficulty carving out their background. Once we were done carving, we used a brayer to smooth out the ink and roll it onto the linoleum. Then, we cut 5 inch by 7 inch pieces of paper from our notebook. I encountered difficulty with the measurements and cutting, and found myself cutting at a rate of about two per day, which was fairly slow, as we needed a minimum of ten prints. But I still managed, and began to print my toucan onto the paper. At first, I used only black, because keel-billed toucans are black and the only other options were magenta, yellow, and cyan. However, I did end up trying yellow and cyan once each. I continued to use black until Ms. Asha finally agreed to let us mix colors instead of layer them, as it turned out that the ink was fairly opaque. We mixed green, and I used a variation of the color for two of my prints. A few days later, we went a step further with mixing color and began to create ombres. I used one for my ninth print, and my final one was black again. In the end, most of my prints had a white spot in the corner, but I was satisfied overall with how they turned out.