[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Wednesday, 17 November 1999 Volume 09 : Number 785 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gary Luedtke Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:34:03 -0500 Subject: [Baren 6659] Introduction Welcome to Bryan and Sharri, and any other new members who may have crept in while I was out for air. Whew, that curriculum vitae of Grahams had my jaw dropped so far down on the floor I figured I might as well sweep up the studio ;) Graham, bless your mother in forgiveness for overlooking brevity as another one of your lessons. Is your c.v. out in Reader's Digest form did you say? :) Just having fun, Graham, I've been quiet too long. Bryan and Sharri, hope to see some of your work soon. Gary ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 19:38:24 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6661] Welcome Bryan James. Bryan James wrote.... >My name is Bryan James, and I've been a woodblock >printmaker ( traditional Japanese technique) for 30 years >or so; Welcome to the barenl... As I write this I wonder if it will be a week, month before you read this.... Seems like you and I are of the same era and mind..... > So much of our work has been of necessity experimental. This can be exciting as you develop and create originality without the influences of..... >able to visit Japan in >1984 and found that exceedingly valuable. You really must get a computer.. get on line... and you can visit Japan whenever you wish. Searching through the Encyclopedia http://www.woodblock.com/ or help on the subject is beyond description. You will think you have died and gone to heaven.... oh, forgot, Dunedin is just that. >All the kids seem to want to do these days is >computer graphics. Ahhhh the quick fix artists...... I know them well..... (Gary ..... no need to respond ..... we've been there.) Bryan, this is a fellow barener..... >Most of my prints are multiple-coloured portraits >This year I finished a 20-year project, of 50 >portraits of fellow citizens in Dunedin, You will have to meet Marco.... who has a passion for the same subjects. Love to see yours Bryan. >university town on South Island that's the most beautiful >place you could ever wish to live in. Ummmm.... second most beautiful.... to Victoria BC which is know as the Garden of Eden. Have just looked at a internet map.... I may have to reconsider. >I'm not computer literate, being a dinosaur from the >manual age, I have been accused of this, with the exception I am not computer literate. >I strongly believe in the importance of >ensuring the survival of valuable crafts I would add..... "that has no substitute for the ability to draw" >I'd be happy for people to correspond with me, should they >wish, in the old-fashioned way: my address is I and sending about 10 the 15 e-mail's a day and to go via snail mail just does not fit. Sorry Do get on line and enjoy. Regards, Graham ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V9 #785 ***************************