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Baren Digest               Tuesday, 20 April 1999       Volume 07 : Number 534

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:19:33 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4078] Re: Rembrandt catalog 

Dear Agatha

Rembrandt catalog number is;

In the USA    1 800 622 1887

Ouitside USA  609 397 0068

A very plain catalog, but teeming with information, especially the paper and
all the contents of same.

Jeanne

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From: Cucamongie@aol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:47:10 EDT
Subject: [Baren 4079] Re: Baren Digest V7 #533 

Jim wrote:
>Has anyone on [Baren] tried to print hanga-style from linoleum? 

I did try it once and it didn't work out well - the plate repelled the 
water-based pigment - but who knows if there are some tricks to make it work! 
 
agatha asked:
<<what's the number to call for the rembrandt catalogue?>>
1-800-622-1887
Best regards,
Sarah

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From: judy mensch <mensch@interport.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:04:09 -0500
Subject: [Baren 4080] Re: Rembrandt catalog 

Rembrandt's number is toll free in US 1-800-622-1887 or from anywhere
609-397-0068 and the fax is 609-397-0666  
Judy

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:15:57 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4081] Re: page update 

Dear Michael

Art is so complex that the viewer sometimes reads what the artist does not
intend. Perhaps that is a good thing. As my imagination always runs to the
subjective.
When I viewed your newest work, I was emotionally impressed. I saw aerial
views of destruction. Sometimes my imagination would conjur up figures
isolated in the distance.
Art should evoke a reaction. Or else the viewer quickly walks by without any
thought. Your work should stop anyone in their tracks. It certainly would
mine.
I do not know what you intended, but , to me, it spoke very loudly.
And that is, to my mind what art is all about.

Jeanne

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From: Barbara Mason <bemason@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:15:36 -0700
Subject: [Baren 4082] Michael's Work and Introduction 

I have been "listening" to Baren for about a month and have thoroughly
enjoyed every minute, but since I am a printmaker but not a woodblock
printer I have not added any comments. My name is Barbara Mason and I
live in Portland, Oregon. I do viscosity oil based monotypes, but I am
going to take Graham's class. You guys have lured me in. You can see
some of my older work at www.waterstonegallery.com This site is sadly
out of date, but my brother does it for our cooperative gallery (he
lives in Texas) and free is a good price. I have been on the board of
the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art
Museum for 7 years and have looked at so many prints in that time.....we
have over 22,000. Michael, I have to say that I have never seen a
woodblock like yours. I had a very hard time opening your site and I am
using netscape 4.51, it kept telling me there was no response from the
server, and when I did finally get it open it did'nt want to let me open
the prints. But finally, your wonderful work. These are magnificent.
Your technique looks almost like an etching. These are very powerful and
strong images and look quite organic to me, almost like a microscopic
view. I am very impressed, keep up the good work. I can understand Dave
wanting to know more about what these prints mean to you and your
thinking behind them. With non objective work it is often hard to know
what the artist is trying to convey if you do not know the artist.
Please tell us your thoughts so we can fully appreciate these wonderful
images.

Barbara

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From: Ruth Leaf <leafr@ecom.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 08:20:02 -0700
Subject: [Baren 4083] Re: Baren Digest V7 #533 

Michael  I found the recent works on your website very exciting. In the
newer work I found the textures to be wonderful but all the prints had
exactly the same feeling and I wonder why you didn't put them all
together in one enormous print .  I could see a wall with all the prints
connected.  Ruth

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From: Don Furst <furstd@uncwil.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:32:15 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4084] Re: Baren Digest V7 #533 

Jim wrote:
>> Has anyone on [Baren] tried to print hanga-style from linoleum? 
Sarah answered:
>I did try it once and it didn't work out well - the plate repelled the 
>water-based pigment - but who knows if there are some tricks to make it work! 

I have never tried to do the above, but what if you added ox gall to the
pigment?  I believe that this material is mixed with water-based paint to
alter the surface tension and prevent them from beading up on a
non-receptive surface.   --Don

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:49:50 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4085] Re: Michael's Work and Introduction

Dear Barbara

Grab a piece of wood and go at it !   Your images are perfect for woodblock
printing.  It is full of life and color.
Come and join us.

Sincerely
Jeanne

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From: Wanda Robertson <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:38:18 -0700
Subject: [Baren 4086] Re: Michael's new prints ... 

Michael, I went to your site and found my way to your new works. They
are beautiful! Can you translate the title for us? I love all the
texture and contrast to the empty part of the paper. It almost looks
three dimensional. I see that you are using Sumi ink. What kind of paper
is it on? And do you print with a baren or a press? We have a lot of
questions, don't we? 

Wanda

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From: Sunnffunn@aol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:14:55 EDT
Subject: [Baren 4087] Re: page update 

i would not call myself a barener as of yet but i have enjoyed reading your 
comments  and i am a novice at printmaking  to be honest not really a 
woodcutter  but i may be  and i find your work all of you  and your intensity 
at creating fine art inspiring
michael  as a novice but one who has studied the arts and been creating most 
of my life  i find this work totally incredible  footprints in the sand  
human jewels of the earth as it were exciting compositions     hard so often 
to do such abstraction  and so often with woodcuts i have not seen this type 
of abstract work  i find it unique wonderful and inspiring   the textures  
wow!!!!    i think the message is there  just in the beauty and i see 
humanity here in every touch   i would stop to look at this work and cry in 
joy for its very existance!  i have not seen much i am sure of what all of 
you are accomplishing or what is out there in unique work  but it is tough to 
pave the way into new and different directions  keep with it!

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From: Sunnffunn@aol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:25:23 EDT
Subject: [Baren 4088] Re: Michael's Work and Introduction 

thank you barbara mason  i too am in portland oregon  but i am not in as 
prestigeous a location as you are in this city    but it is nice to know 
there are other printmakers doing outstanding works    i enjoyed your web 
page and i am into monotypes as well i found these wonderful in their color 
and balance  just fabulous work thanks for sharing    i hope as you do to 
work into woodblock
Marilynn

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From: Michael Schneider <mikasch@t0.or.at>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:52:02 +0200
Subject: [Baren 4089] Re: Michael's new prints ... 

David Bull wrote:
> > and would like to read some thoughts about it.

I have not expected so many thoughts from so many bareners . I just spent two
hours trying to answer but could not find an end.
So please give me some more time to finish my  posting, and answer to all the
questions that came up.

michael ( a bit exhausted...)

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From: "Gregory D. Valentine" <gvalen@linfield.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:21:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 4090] Re: Michael's prints ... 

Michael-- before you relax let me add my ode to the ahhs.  I too find your
prints very exciting.  I love the 'feel' of them, half way between
petroglyphs and graffiti, some strange script, a Linear B, undecipherable
except for the urge to leave a mark.

Your technique hadn't occurred to me before, but I think I'll try chasing
a print now.  Also, an old netsuke carver's trick was to compress a wood
surface in places, level the surrounding wood, then pop the compressions
up by soaking them in water, to swell them-- for putting warts on toads,
or something; I toss that idea out because I've never known quite what to
do with it.

Again, I think your prints are very strong and very exciting, and I hope,
very large.                                           --GV 

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From: Sunnffunn@aol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:27:32 EDT
Subject: [Baren 4091] Re: Michael's prints ... 

michael i had not considered size  but these prints of yours would be 
astounding in a large size  i too hope they are large

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:18:23 +0900
Subject: [Baren 4092] Tools ... a chance! 

Here's a goodie just in this morning:

About ten years or so ago, I had a visitor here in my workshop from
Canada - a man who was interested in learning about Japanese woodblock
printmaking.  We spent some time together, and with my advice, he
selected and bought a bunch of tools here, some knives and chisels.

He then returned to Canada, but got involved in something else and
hasn't done any printmaking since then.  He sent me an email this
morning ...

> I thought you might know of someone that might be
> interested in purchasing them from me  ...
> It would give me some money but more importantly it would 
> put the tools in the hands of someone that can use them for 
> what they were designed for. It would relieve me to know 
> they are being used and not just collecting dust.

Do I know anybody who would be interested?  _Do_ I?

His name is Ned Herperger, he lives in Saskatchewan, and he is at:
xxxxx@xxxxx

Dave

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From: Jack Reisland <reislandj001@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:17:18 +0000
Subject: [Baren 4093] Re: Tools ... a chance! 

David Bull wrote:
> Do I know anybody who would be interested?  _Do_ I?

Yes, I am very interested, and have written to tell him so. So how many
more e-mails will he be getting?

Jack Reisland

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