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Baren Digest               Friday, 8 October 1999       Volume 09 : Number 734

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From: Ruth Leaf <leafr@ecom.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 08:16:27 -0700
Subject: [Baren 6143] Re: Baren Digest V9 #733 

To any bareners who would like a website and cannot manage one
themselves I suggest you email Maria.  She didn't mention that she did
the website for me.  She is a joy to work with and extremely
knowledgeable.  Ruth Leaf
http://www.ruthleaf.com

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:41:51 -0400
Subject: [Baren 6144] Re: Testing Testing 

Josephine
Just took a trip to your beloved Dalwood, the fairy tale tree house, the
romantic wedding and your fantastic mandalas.
You are one talented and extremely CREATIVE lady.
 I thouroughly enjoyed the trip!!!!!

Jeanne

This is worth everyone,s time.  And stay awhile.
http://www.acay.com.au/~severn

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From: "Philip Smith" <smithart@pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:36:14 -0700
Subject: [Baren 6147] 

>the website is now go go go

Josephine,......very impressive indeed,....it's going to take weeks to look
at everything I think,...but your effort is well worth while,....Philip

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From: Cucamongie@aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:54:56 EDT
Subject: [Baren 6151] baren show, Maryland show 

Hi folks! I've been swamped w/about a million things, getting ready for 4 or 
5 shows, teaching, word processing to keep a roof overhead, trying to get in 
some printmaking, trying to find some time for my dear boyfriend and pet 
kitty!  Anyhow, the Baren show looks great & I'm looking forward to meeting 
whoever can make it to the opening -- also, wanted to tell folks in the 
Maryland area that I will have three prints up in a show called "Walk on the 
Wild Side" at a gallery called Art Spaces, which is part of South Maryland 
Higher Education Center, located at 44219 Airport Road, California, Maryland, 
phone: 301-737-2500.  The show will be up October 20-January 4.  They have a 
juried show of portraits coming up, so maybe some of you are interested :) - 
best to all,
Sarah

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From: "Jean Eger" <jeaneger@LanMinds.Com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:11:32 -0700
Subject: [none]

Josephine,
Your web site looks great and provides a great service.  You can download
free link checkers.  Have you tried looking at the www.tucows.com  web site
of shareware?  You might try the linkbot program or one I am downloading
called linktolink.  You can do a search for them on the tucows site.  They
will check for broken links automatically.

Judy, April and Sarah,
Thanks SO much for hanging the Baren show.  I wish I could see it but my
last chemo has been delayed while I get over a cold.  So no flying east to
see the fall colors, which I hoped for.  I look forward to photos from the
show.

I did join the Manhatten Graphics Center and sent in a few slides for the
Polish show, so I am hoping...

Jean Eger

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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:52:32 -0500
Subject: [Baren 6154] Re: colaboration & misc. 

I was at my local library last night and saw a large poster " A Game of Chance"
(a deck of artist created playing cards).   It is for Y-ME, associated with the
National Breast Cancer Organization and curated by artist Hollis Siegler. The
poster is put out by the Printworks Gallery here in Chicago (1997) and each card
(56 in total) was created by a different artist.  I think someone in Baren had
mentioned a similar project coming out of Africa ? .....could be an idea for a
future Baren project.

Gary.....no it was not me pointing to the likeness of Hitchcock in Dave's print.

Ruth... enjoyed your new web-site immensely....nice work Maria......loved those
big closeups it makes a great difference when looking at Ruth's abstract work
online..... Thanks!

Josephine.....nice work on your web-site....need more time to check everything
out......loved those spiral formations.....what does "mandala"
mean....artistically...

Bea.......hope everything is okay and here wishing you a speady recovery....

Does anybody have an extra entry form for the Wisconsin exhibition run by Center
for Visual Arts (13th Parkside National Exhibition....theme: winter, deadline
11/5) ???????????? I tried faxing and calling and no reply......

Julio

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From: Elizabeth Atwood <elizuno@midcoast.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:09:20 -0400
Subject: [Baren 6156] New web site 

Ruth Leaf..... a beautiful new website.....very handsome.
And the  woodcuts are breathtaking! I agree with all Maria superlatives.
Everyone should check it out....<http://www.ruthleaf.com>

And waiting for the finish on Josephine's....lookin' good.

ElizA

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From: severn@acay.com.au
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 07:14:20 +1000
Subject: [Baren 6157] Print Australia 

Dear everyone

Thankyou all for the feedback, and complements.

I didn't want to put the site up until it was completely finished but I
had a deadline for another project and went against my better judgement
and announced it before it was completely tested. Some things you can't
check until its on-line...

I have an hour or so this morning to fix the links (I'll look for that
link checker too) and the background colour and text size. For some
reason the text shrank when it went from the builder to the net.

I hope to finish the Dalwood bit in the next new few weeks, the links
page I hope will just grow as I add bits.

On the 'to do' list are pages for prizes, australian printmakers and O/S
printmakers. And  I have to post it to all the browsers and weblinks...

Josephine

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From: Maria Arango <Maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 19:57:37 -0700
Subject: [Baren 6160] Maria makes a Maria-baren 

Here are some new images. These are the ones that I carved while
"demoing" at the recent art fair. Click on the link to my page below,
then on: Out of the Wood Series
Also, I am the proud recipient of a Second Place Award for a drawing
("Letting Go: http://www.printmakingstudio.com/bletgo.html) I entered in
the LV Art Museum Juried Exhibition. First place went to a lady that
draws skeletons/bones in charcoal with a Vanitas sort of feel; so next
year I'm drawing a rat eating a skull, see if I can beat her : )

For those of you interested in alternative forms of an imitation, not
the real thing (don't want to offend anybody) but nevertheless very
useful baren. This one seems to print very even large areas with the
least amount of effort:
- -Buy a 5 inch oval "rosette" at a wood-craft supplier, I got mine at
Payless Cashways, cost is $5.00.
- -Buy a loadfull of the smallest mushroom-head "buttons" also at a
wood-craft supplier; birch is softer than oak so it does not tear the
paper, cost is about another $5.00.
- -Get yourself some patience and some wood glue and glue the buttons onto
the recession in the rossette side by side like good little buttons with
their little mushroom caps facing out. The less gaps you leave between
buttons, the more of the little suckers you can fit in there. Some of
them can be sharp instead of rounded so sand the whole thing until their
little heads are nice and round.
- -Wrap the whole thing in your traditional bamboo cover, or in my
non-traditional primed canvas (wet first as with the bamboo sheath). I
have honestly tried to use the bamboo, but in single-digit humidity
those poor bamboo skins crumble like potato chips. Canvas takes the oil
well, does not dry out, it is easy to wrap and shrinks to a tight
package, just like the bamboo.
- -There, you got yourself a baren-substitute (I said 'substitute',
Graham) for cheap and labor. Covers large areas extremely well with
minimal effort, I would not use it for delicate lines because
wood-on-wood can cause damage to your precious block.
Always looking for the inexpensive way out, aren't we newbies... ; )
Health to all,
Maria

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From: Wanda Robertson <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 20:24:10 -0700
Subject: [Baren 6162] Re: Maria makes a Maria-baren 

Maria, of your rat series (who would've thought!) "Letting Go" is my
favorite! Congratulations!

And your "rosette & mushroom baren" - you just keep coming up with
surprizes for us, don't you?

Good going!

Wanda

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From: "John/Michelle Morrell" <jmorrell@ptialaska.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:50:05 -0800
Subject: [Baren 6163] Julio's and Josephine's remarks

Julio--
I bit on your comments and checked out the print but it didn't strike me as
cold and distant, but I did immediately see Alfred Hitchcock with a
topnotch.

Josephine,

Did you do the Mandela?  I am a bit vague about what is your work, just
scanning the site.  The prayer flag link did not come up after a couple
minutes so I gave up, but the rest of the links I tried seemed good.  Again,
I did not try them all--I was looking for your work.  I realise others may
disagree, but I have very old eyes and trying to read red on black is
impossible, and even white on black is difficult.  I know it is prosaic and
less dramatic but if you could get your web page artist to do dark print on
light for the majority of us nimcompoops, we would stick it out longer.

I have been struggling with a web page for months--every turn it's something
different--first my instructor died, then when they found a substitute, the
whole staff left for the summer, then my scanner bit the dust, now the new
scanner doesn't want to work color true with Corel--some day you can send me
some comments!  I wish!!

By the way, welcome.  I didn't have much else to say to you previously, and
David disapproves of the "me toos......"

Michelle M.

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