[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest 1900 Volume 10 : Number 846 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BHearn2001@aol.com Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:18:40 EST Subject: [Baren 7461] Re: Baren Digest V10 #844 re: Print Exchange 3 A very very fine collection of prints! I am glad to be a part of it. Doing this has been one of the best and interesting undertakings for the end of the millennium. As interesting is the dragon exchange. I keep getting those beasties through my mail shoot and mine go out tomorrow. Held out for the 2000 postmark. Barbara Hearbheanr2001@aol.com btw, charlotte is in north carolina. ------------------------------ From: "DShack" Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:45:50 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7462] Re: What is hanga? Thanks Mary. Looks like I was confusing a technique, hanga, with an art style, ukiyo-e. I was confused. ------------------------------ From: Gary Luedtke Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 21:55:02 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7464] Sheepish << Question: why is David's #4 print like a flock of sheep? He's fuzzy around the edges? Dave is gentle as a lamb? Dave is going to get sheared? Dave's hair is turning white? Dave's wearing his woolies? Dave used his "baa"- ren to print it? It was printed on sheep paper??? Am I getting warm with any of these, Dave? Gary ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 18:47:36 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7465] Re: Lenox paper There's Lenox & there's Lenox. Daniel Smith's Lenox seems to act differently than the Lenox I buy at the local art store or e-buy from my favorite paper supplier right now - Misterart.com - But, I've used both flavors dry with oil-based inks (relief prints with wood and with lino) and it works pretty good. Not as good (but also not as spendy) as Arches 88 which is my fav. oil relief printing paper so far. Wanda ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 19:18:02 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7466] Re: sheep It's wooly? (a wooly woodblock?) Is that possible? Or you are printing it on 100% wool rag paper? Handmade wool rag paper, of course! Yeah, I'm reaching, too!:-) Happy New 00 everyone! Wanda ------------------------------ From: Brad Schwartz Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 21:23:50 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7468] numbah three! Hi... I received my package of Exchange #3 prints... All I have to say is fabulous! I have questions and comments for a lot of you... those will wait until David receives his bundle to put on the web page. Thank you to everyone! And the Exchange coordinators... Barbara and Wanda... outdone themselves again! Brad ------------------------------ From: "John Ryrie" Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:03:13 +1100 Subject: [Baren 7469] #3 + Dragon + info I just received Print exchange #3 that was remarkably fast post, I expected it to take a lot longer to get hear. Also 3 more Dragons, Thank you Ruth, Jan & Bea. Thank you Julio for that address. Someone from his studio has got back to me already wanting more info. Also today I got an entry form for the Mini Print International 20 Cadaques which runs from 1 July to 15 September 2000. The entry fee is $75 US so that counts me out, but if any one is interested the address is: Mercedes Barbera President ADOGI Apartado de Correos 9319 08080 Barcelona Spain The closing date is 15 March 2000 They don't seem to have any web' or email address. John ------------------------------ From: "Daniel Dew" Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:09:04 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7470] Re: Re; various > I am your neighbor, just one hour away in Sarasota. Thanks for the answer. I think there is over 100 members. They seem to meet a few times a year, but I haven't been a member for a whole long time (about 1 year). They switch the meeting places every time to get close to the members.i.e. Once in Tampa, once in Ft. Myers, then on to Miami, etc...Nice group of people. Not at all like this group though. I almost feel like I'm back in college again with these Baren folk. What a hoot. If you want to join, it's cheap (like about $20.00) and you get newsletters, etc. Ping me back off line if you want more info. Dan Dew ------------------------------ From: "Daniel Dew" Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:14:11 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7471] Re: Hello from Holland > Please let me introduce myself: > I am Peter Klasen and live in The Hague, the Netherlands. Greetings back to you sir. What type/kind of mentally handicapped people do you work with? I have a ten year old daughter with Autism who is just beginning to show an interest in drawing, painting, etc.... Any books you could recommend? Dan Dew ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 22:39:04 +0900 Subject: [Baren 7472] Re: Sheepish 'Show and Tell' message board has been updated this afternoon, and I've added a couple more cards to my own little dragon page ... http://w.com/temporary/dragons_etc Hideshi wrote from Tokyo: > David-san, > Card#05 is not a wood engraving, it is a woodcut and letters > were printed by "Print Gocco". Sorry about the mistake Hideshi. I saw the cross-hatching on the dragon and assumed that it was your usual wood-engraving technique. The 'Print Gocco' that Hideshi mentions is a miniature screen printing outfit that uses a little flashbulb to create a small card-sized 'screen' for printing. Once it's exposed, you rub ink across the screen and it squeezes through in places where the design lines were. So I guess that print is 'mixed-media'! *** Gary wrote: > << Question: why is David's #4 print like a flock of sheep? > > He's fuzzy around the edges? I guess I had better put everybody out of their misery on this one ... > Dave used his "baa"- ren to print it? ... and I mean 'misery'! No, the answer is simply that a flock of sheep is a thing whose beauty is in inverse proportion to your closeness ... the farther away you stand, the better it looks! My self-portrait for Exchange #4 (unlike my surimono prints) will repel you when seen close-up, but maybe it doesn't look so bad when seen from a distance ... Now I'm sure you 'can't wait' ... to run away!!! *** Brad wrote, re exchange #3: > I have questions and comments for a lot of you... those > will wait until David receives his bundle to put on the web page. Shouldn't be long now, I hope. (I should have pulled rank or something, and got the ladies to send me my copy of the folio early!) Maybe next time ... Maria? Maria? Dave ------------------------------ From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 00:02:49 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Baren 7475] Home made Michael S.: I'd like to see an entry on making a ball bearing baren. I bet it is easier to just buy one though. I tried to make a baren from twisted nylon string once. It was so time consuming and the results were so dubious, that it gave me a sincere appreciation for the labors of others! Barens may cost hundreds of dollars, but they are awfully hard to make! And Gregory, you know I am always happy to hear of another show possibility. Need money or more prints? Let us know how it goes! Barbara Hearn, Sarah Hauser and I are planning to get together this Friday for a session of re-covering a baren. This is a lot easier than making one from scratch, but no breeze. Wish us luck! April Vollmer ------------------------------ From: "Philip Smith" Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:35:45 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7476] Re: Home made >I'd like to see an entry on making a ball bearing baren. April,...sense you are going to make and repair barens in a few days,.....and I mentioned this 'sorta' baren last year, repeated here for those of you with crafty skills,.....coiling a rope on a table top and pinning it place is pretty easy,...[buying a can of "Plastic-Dip" is relative easy too],[$6.99 at Harbour Freight]..the rubberized goo is for coating the handles of tools, i.e., wenches, plyers, etc...pore some in the center of your coil, covering all of the coils,.place a wooden drawer pull in the center of your pored "Plastic-Dip",...let dry,....you can glue some leatherette to the bottom side after...tweek as necessary,... And it does work,...materials for this baren runs less than a $1 each,.....oh yeah, put some wax paper down first,............Good luck April, Philip PS Sylvia, your dragon arrived here in Oregon today, thanks to you and everyone else for sending me one,...'much appreciated ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:15:40 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7477] Home made April wrote >Barbara Hearn, Sarah Hauser and I are planning to get together this Friday >for a session of re-covering a baren. This is a lot easier than making one >from scratch, but no breeze. Wish us luck! Look in at http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Tiebaren.html it should help a lot. And you are right about covering a baren as compared to building one. Reading about the constuction at http://www.w.com/encyclopedia/entries/001_01/001_01_frame.html and also at http://www.w.com/encyclopedia/entries/001_05/001_05_frame.html was enough for me ...... No thanks..... I will let the experts make mine. Graham ps. I will soon have a little thingie about the fine tuning of Maru Bake (inking brushes). Stay Tuned. ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V10 #846 ****************************