[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Saturday, 3 July 1999 Volume 08 : Number 616 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hideshi Yoshida Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 22:20:06 +0900 Subject: [Baren 4821] Info Hello everyboby , You will have a chance to look at my work in USA . If you have time please go and see . " The Art of the Engraver From Historical to Contemporary " at Davis & Elkins College Library , July 11 to September 15 . 100 Campus drive Elkins , West Virginia 2641-3996 USA Tel : 304-637-1209 Hideshi ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger" Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:37:22 -0700 Subject: [Baren 4822] Re: Baren Digest V8 #615 Barbara, 1. Solid basswood works great. 2. I had no luck sharpening knives until I started using the Nagura stone with my water stones. http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/014_02/014_02_frame.html It makes a mud, which facilitates the sharpening process. Graham, I haven't checked your sharpening site yet today. 3. For me, sizing is everything. Again, I didn't size my paper enough for Exchange #3, so I got a spotty blue-grey color, but I'm going with it anyway, because it reflects my state of mind right after my first chemo treatment. It's a historical marker about what I'm still capable of during these treatments. I'm printing on a paper from Bhutan which I got at the Southern Graphics council. It's a hand-made paper which has been vacuum dried, I think, which makes it crinkly and rattly. (Iin the Bay Area, Magnolia Press gives a paper making class, which I highly recommend. That's how I cam to that conclusion about the vacuum drying.) 4. Yesterday I wandered down to the community center and the leader asked me to give a presentation to about 15 kids about life skills. So I talked to them, among other things, about how my mother had given me art supplies to amuse myself in bed when I was sick, when I was a child. So the first thing I did when I got sick this year was to start working on a print. I showed them the print and they were just blown away. Then I told them I was a teacher and asked them to tell me about the worst teacher they ever had. So we spent the next 45 minutes being regaled by tales of terrible teachers. And we laughed and laughed. Jean in CA ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:49:29 -0700 Subject: [Baren 4823] Re: Baren Digest V8 #615 >Graham, I haven't checked your sharpening site yet today. Jean, I haven't had a chance to get it put together. Next week some time is my plan. I have some good images and the page should be most helpful. Regards, Graham ------------------------------ From: John Ryrie Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 21:43:41 +1000 Subject: [none] JOHN RYRIE I am an artist living in Melbourne Australia whose main medium is woodcut printing. I have been working on woodcuts since 1980, have had 14 solo exhibitions and over 74 group shows. One of my main interests is in limited edition books, I use woodcut and wood engraving along with letterpress. The books that I do are completely made by me printing Bookbinding etc.. I do at times work with other writers. I use a SP 20 Vandercook test Press made in 1961 (the year of my birth) The other mediums that I work in are wood engraving ,etching, Litho Screen prints, copper engraving, mezzotint, lino cut, painting and sculpture. The biggest woodcut that I have done to date was 7X4ft or 113X122cm I work in colour and in b&w. At present I am doing my Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian Collage of the Arts on limited edition books. I don't as yet have my own web site but my Email address is j.ryrie@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V8 #616 ***************************