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Baren Digest                Friday, 2 July 1999        Volume 08 : Number 615

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:59:16 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4817] Book on Self Portraits 

In case anyone out there is interested in a great book on Womens Self
Portrait's;   SEEING OURSELVES
                           WOMEN'S SELF PORTRAITS
                            by Frances Borzello
                            Abrams Books

Barnes Noble carries this book. It is a history of self portraits ,
including contemparary paintings. Excellent!  Cost ; $45.00

This one theme for a Print Exchange should prove to be very interesting and
could be a challenge to the creativity in all of us!

Jeanne

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From: Barbara Mason <bemason@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 07:20:39 -0700
Subject: [Baren 4818] Wood blocks 

Graham,
I know there was a reason for not using laminated blocks but I cannot
remember what it is. I got a sharpening stone at a woodworking store
close to home and they had 1" thick basswood blocks 12"x12". They were
made by the basswood man from Minnesota. Why won't these work? Will the
water cause them to come apart? I think I will try one. Please advise.
They looked wonderful.
Barbara

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@home.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 07:45:41 -0700
Subject: [Baren 4819] Re: Wood blocks 

Barbara
I gather that the laminations are strip of basswood glued side by side
creating a 12 wide block of wood. These have been then cut to 12" lengths.
If I have the right then they will not work......as the seam in the glued
pieces will show as lines on the image.   Then again if you want something
with lines in the image.......go for it.

Graham

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From: Gayle Wohlken <blueman@nacs.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 08:24:00 -0400
Subject: [Baren 4820] Re: Baren Digest V8 #614 

Hi everyone, I just got in from Tennessee last 
night.  Just finished reading all my email and
have greatly enjoyed Barbara's descriptions of
the hanga process ala Graham's workshop.  I
printed out the baren sheath tying page for future
reference.  Thanks, Graham, for sharing with us.

Dave, I had trouble sending messages from
the library in Hendersonville, Tennessee.  The
Chamber of Commerce mentioned for me to 
try the library and I got permission to use one of
their online computers for one half hour.  When
I tried to send a message to the page you have
set up for us who are away at different computers,
it would not accept the password and i.d. as you
told us to do it.  It worked, I see, from the one I
posted from here (at home), but not from the one
at that library.  It refused the information.  I wonder
why.  Then I tried sending you an email with the
colophon info, but I can't be certain you received it.
Then I had Shane send you the info in a regular
email.  Now I have sent it from the page you have
set up for that.  So you may have received the info three 
times, and if so I apologize.

John, I haven't sent the prints yet, as when I got to the
end of signing them all, I found one had a smear along
the edges and I didn't like the way it looked, so I want to
do it over.  While in Tennessee, I called every art store
in Nashville and no one knew what Japanese printmaking
paper was.  Someone said "Oh, yeah, we have sumi" and
that was all I would have been able to get there.  This amazes
me because Vanderbilt University is there and surely they
teach printmaking in all its forms.  The university bookstore
didn't have any paper for block printing.  

So now I must call around Cleveland and see if I can find
kitakata paper and get some today!  My print dries fast since
it's only one color this time, so don't worry, John, I'll get it 
to you by the deadline.

Welcome new members.

Gayle Wohlken

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