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Baren Digest               Sunday, 30 August 1998       Volume 04 : Number 259

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From: Gayle Wohlken <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 09:52:16 -0400
Subject: [Baren 1465] Re: Baren Digest V4 #258 

Dave's one point lesson for the week on dampening paper has me
confused on one point:

>  my right
> hand picks up the baren and 'sets' the sheet. While
> barening with my right hand 

Dave, I thought you were a left hander?  Wouldn't you be using the
baren with your left hand?  

* * * 

Welcome to Mary and Carolyn.

* * * 

I guess, April, I agree with Dave and Ray about not making the editions
too large.  Everytime the number goes up, I feel I'm wading out there
in some water I'm not ready to swim in!!!  I'm one of those who doesn't
even do editions.  I make what I need to serve my purposes, a perfect
copy, for instance, to scan in for a book I'm putting together. 
Sometimes people like individual woodcuts from a series (for a book) 
and will  order a copy.  That's how I do it.  So the edition thing is new to me.

* * * 

Nice to see you're going to participate in the exchange, Ray. 

Gayle Wohlken

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From: <DARICH@prodigy.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:33:52 -0700
Subject: Mary Krieger - new member 

Welcome Mary,

Most of the talk lately has been about the problems of waterbase printing
and the portfolio.  I'm glad to find another artist working with oil base
ink.

Do you have work on the net we can see?  Are you printing in multiple
colors?  I'm wondering if you have any trouble with ink buildup.  Are you
inking by hand or do you use a press that inks the block?

Andrea Rich

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From: StudioJNC@aol.com
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:30:32 EDT
Subject: [Baren 1467] Re: Mary Krieger - new member 

Welcome Mary

Andrea; Glad to know there are a few of us who are working with oil based
inks. I feel I should give the watercolor a try but feel so comfortable with
my oil paints, as I have been using oils for 25 years.  One of these days I
will pay attention to all of the wonderful instructions in the Japanese
tradition of woodblocks, but for now........

The portfolio exchange has really turned me on and am eagerly awaiting the
results.
Imagine if all 50 ? signed up, would,nt we be busy?

Matt; Great lesson for the week, I am saving all of the watercolor lessons for
the future. As Graham said to me last month, sometimes you just have to jump
in!!
I intend to Graham , honestly..........later.

Jeanne

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:57:34 +0900
Subject: [Baren 1468] Re: One-point lesson ... 

Gayle wrote:
> Dave's one point lesson for the week on dampening paper has me
> confused on one point ... 
> Dave, I thought you were a left hander?  Wouldn't you be using the
> baren with your left hand?  

Actually Gayle, although the email header said that the message was
coming from me, that lesson was provided by Matt Brown.  The 'I'  is 
Matt speaking, not me ...

Sorry about the confusion.  I guess from now on I had better type the
introduction in a different way, to make the author's name more clear.

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Andrea wrote:
>Welcome Mary,
>Do you have work on the net we can see?  ...

Mary's work, and a description of her process, is on her web site at:
http://www.mts.net/~mkrieger

Dave   (the _real_ Dave ...)

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From: Jean Eger <jeaneger@LanMinds.Com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:33:39 -0700
Subject: [Baren 1469] Re: Baren Digest V4 #258 

April wrote:
>It would be nice to have a set of the prints saved in a public archive so
>other people interested in woodblock could see them. 

I don't mind making a few extra copies, especially if they will be sent to
the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art (my art goal
in life) or the New York Public Library.  I'd also love to have a print in
the Achenbach collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.  Does
anyone have connections that will take our work into their permanent
collection?  What was that museum you wanted to get in to Graham?  Or will
they just accept the work and then sell it for their own fundraising purposes?

Graham wrote:
>Gaithersburg, Where I spent a wonderful five years at the beginning of my 
> career before heading to that city of opportunity and strange people
> - San Francisco..

Thanks, Graham, I'll take that as a compliment.

***

Welcome Mary.  I loved your black and white prints.  It felt like being out
in nature with the sun shining in my eyes so that after awhile all I can
see is the contrast.  It reminds me that I fell in love with German
Expressonist black and white block printing before I knew about the Japanese.

Welcome Carolyn.  I look forward to seeing your prints also.

It sure is good to hear from you again, Ray, even though you criticized me
for writing too much just when I joined Baren.  You guys invited me to join
Baren last fall, just when I was having my postgraduate nervous breakdown.
Sorry if I was a bit snappy back then.

Jean

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From: Ray Esposito <brassring@brassring.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:01:07 -0400
Subject: [Baren 1470] Re: Baren Digest V4 #258 

Jean wrote:
>It sure is good to hear from you again, Ray, even though you criticized me
>for writing too much just when I joined Baren.  You guys invited me to join
>Baren last fall, just when I was having my postgraduate nervous breakdown.

Jean, you were never criticized for writing too much.  You were criticized
for writing long gibberish.  Had we known you were having a nervous
breakdown it would have been different.  

I had a nervous breakdown in the late '80's.  Mine was complete and I
needed professional help. I was a complete basket case.  I would crawl up
into a ball in a corner of my bedroom convinced the walls were going to
crush me and crying like a baby.  For people who have never had the
experience, they can have not even the slightest inkling what it is like.
If you had a true breakdown, you have my deepest support.  We are
soulmates.  On the other hand, I can tell you are recovering because you
are sending some of the more intelligent posts on Baren.  :-)>>>>

>Sorry if I was a bit snappy back then.

Snappy is good.  What Baren really needs is a little more snappy.  That's
one reason I came back.  (I think Dave just had a heart attack.)  

Cheers

Ray Esposito

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From: jimandkatemundie@juno.com (James G Mundie)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 00:31:34 -0400
Subject: [Baren 1471] Mary's woodcuts 

Greetings all,

For anyone out there that hasn't yet taken a peek, do have a look at Mary
Krieger's website (http://www.mts.net/~mkrieger).  The woodcuts she has
displayed there are quite vigorous and expressive.

Mary, I see that you are using birch plywood for these.  Do you find you
need to keep your gouging very shallow to avoid the laminate (and cross
grain) of the under layers?

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Tick, tick, tick... I'm still waiting to hear from some of you about your
intention to participate in the first [Baren] exchange.  The deadline is
fast approaching!  Write to me by Tuesday, 1 September 1998 (before 12pm
EDT) to be included.

Mise le meas,
James Mundie, Philadelphia USA

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