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Baren Digest              Wednesday, 22 July 1998      Volume 04 : Number 221

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 1214] Inking Brushes 

I think Dave posted something about preparing inking brushes and the length
that the horse hair should be for best results.

Or did I read this in a book somewhere because there is nothing in the
Encyclo about this topic.

Does anybody know?

Graham

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From: Elizabeth Atwood <elizuno@midcoast.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:16:47 -0500
Subject: [Baren 1215] Computers 

Jean........Great response! I like your "young people are doing amazing
things with computer graphics." It is an "exciting time" with technology
taking off. In time, it will start to sort itself out....and we'll have some standards
developing.

Fifteen years ago, I bought an Amiga computer just for the graphic
capabilities. The Amiga technology is what is used by Disney, etc.
Unfortunately, the Amiga is no longer easily available to the general
public.......so we are now left with an almost-as-good a platform with the
Mac. It is interesting to hear of your experiments.

Also, thank you for the name PRINTMAKING IN NEW MEXICO.......I have been
wanting to see if it is still in print or available. Someone(?) showed me a
copy a few years ago.......and all I remembered about it was its beauty and
Gustave Baumann.......neglected to record the title or publisher.

Another day........

Bettie

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:46:23 +0900
Subject: [Baren 1216] Carver wanted ... 

I received the following message this evening, and although this is not
something that I can think about getting involved with right now,
perhaps one of you might?

*** start message ***

I'm trying to find someone who could carve a wood block for me as a gift 
to my boyfriend to incorporate his Welsh heritage into a print suitable 
for the fronts of books, etc.  
<...>
I have an idea of the design I would like and could find artist friends
here in Hong Kong who could draw up the final design.  Do you know of 
anyone who could do a suitable block for him?  What sort of costs am I 
facing in this idea?  His Birthday is in October, does this seem like 
enough time or am I pushing things too much?

<...>

Many Thanks
Kris Gienger

"KrisJG" <ianjg@netfront.net>

*** end message ***

Dave B.

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From: "Don S Rich" <DARICH@prodigy.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:32:48 -0700
Subject: [Baren 1217] Re: Carver wanted ... 

Dear David,

Sorry I can't help Kris with her project but I have been following the
discussions on inks and designing using the computer etc.  I guess most of
you are using water base inks and applying it with brushes.  To any of you
who are also printing with oil and have been having trouble finding good
quality rollers for inking I wanted to add another address to the supply
section.  They carry excellent rollers as well as tools, inks and paper
etc.

T.N. Lawrence

Mail order address
PO Box 3000 
Lewes, East Sussex BN7 3DZ

fax 01273 483711
web site  www.lawrence.co.uk

That's all I have to contribute at the moment,

Andrea Rich

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:22:09 +0900
Subject: [Baren 1218] Re: brush hair 

Graham wrote:
>Or did I read this in a book somewhere because there is nothing in the
>Encyclo about this topic.

Sorry to be late answering this Graham ...  Actually, it _is_ in the
Encyclopedia: go to the 'One-point Lesson' section, and you should be
able to see it there.  It's lesson #5 ...

http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/topics/018/018.html

The main encyclopedia entry on brush preparation hasn't been written
yet.  

One day.

What to do about an index to that whole thing is giving me a lot to chew
on.  I originally hadn't thought that an index would be necessary - that
the main ouline itself would show people where to look for things, but
that's obviously not going to be the case ...  I suppose that there's
nothing for it but to create a separate index section, with all the
keywords linked to individual pages.  

One day.

Dave

P.S.  The girls have been very busy again this week.  Watch out!

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From: nsampat@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 07:39:11 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: [Baren 1219] 'AquaGraphic' Relief Ink Trial Offer 

David wrote:
>But actually, your postings were quite restrained, and you simply
>offered us information.  Thank you for helping us maintain this 'mood'.

Dave, I am a previledged guest. I am learning a lot here and 
hope to be able to contribute to the forum to be a truly a member of 
this community.

>As to your new offer, I think this is an excellent idea. 

Thanks for the support. I address this in the later part of this e-mail.

Graham Scholes  wrote:[Baren 1199] 
>I gave them a test by smearing them with a knive on a card and next to them
>I did the same with the waterbase colourant I use. I noticed that the
>intensity of your ink was not as great as mine
>I have to admit that I prejudged them on the basis of my little test
>strips.  Have you any experience with your pigments in woodblock
>printmaking on Hosho paper.

Graham. I do appreciate your feedback. I am here to learn
and unless I understand your needs, I can not meet your expectations.

An now to the offer of samples of 'AquaGraphic' Inks.
Matt Brown, Andrea Rich and James G Mundie have been gracious
to offer their time and efforts to try out Green Drop Ink formulations.
First I would like to thank you all. I shall provide samples to each 
one of them and they can report their findings in their own way to 
Baren. I shall be contacting them offline to coordinate this by early 
August. I trust that we are all Professionals here and I am not going 
to put any restrictions or rules. 

Andrea Rich also wrote
>Perhaps you could send me further information about the ink and the
>colors, lightfastness, etc.

I thought that this information might be of general interest to Baren, hence I
am posting it here. 

Antioxidants, UV absorbers and sunlight oxygen quenchers can neutralize the 
photo degradation of organic dyes and pigments (lightfastness).
At Green Drop Ink Company, in keeping with our safe art philosophy, we use natural
antioxidants to achieve light fastness. In addition, the use of baked dyes in place of
regular dyes give our inks the permanancy.

- --- (This is directly from the mouth of our CTO, who has Ph.D. in Chemical 
Engineering, has been Chair of a Chemical Engineering Program and has many 
patents and papers to his crdit in this field having worked as research scientist 
officer for years.)

I will welcome any questions or comments.

Naresh Sampat
safeartinks@bigfoot.com
Green Drop Ink Company
http://www.bigfoot.com/~safeartinks

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