[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Friday, 14 January 2000 Volume 10 : Number 860 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Bea Gold" Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 16:52:09 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7694] a very happy day to you and yours John! This a me too message. Congratulations John, Margaret and Robert Malcolm - since you did so well in organizing Exchange #2 there is no question that you would organize this production perfectly as well. Seems like wife Margaret deserves some of the credit too, though! ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:02:06 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7695] more stuff Wanda - I've been struggling with a wood cut for a couple of weeks - I wasn't pleased with my cutting, my printing, my registration - I just can't seem to get the color selections the way I want - I have made many samples of colors none of which please me but still - the process is challenging and I remember that's most of why I love woodblock printing! Knowing when you start what you want the print to look like is always it! Barbara - April uses a Kento-Nomi or suggest the less expensive 15mm Hira To - holding the bevel away from you cutting a straight L mark for the kento - I want to try Graham's To and Aisuki though - why not? Bea ------------------------------ From: "John Ryrie" Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:30:52 +1100 Subject: [Baren 7696] sacred trees Congratulations John. Josephine Kaye Green, Tasmanian print maker did a 1999 calendar called Sacred Trees. It has a linocut for each month with a biblical quote, such as Proverbs 27:18 "They who tend a fig tree will eat its fruit." John ------------------------------ From: Maria Arango Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 20:54:22 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7698] big'un Okay, monster pics are up. The pictures of the completed print are not very good, but better quality ones will come in a week or so. For those of you who haven't the foggiest idea what I'm talking about: http://www.printmakingstudio.com/studionotes/monster/monstercut.html For those who have been following: http://www.printmakingstudio.com/studionotes/monster/monstercut3.html Some of the pages are image intensive. Oh, and viewer discretion advised. Enjoy. We did. Now for monstercut #2, Daryl wants to make a 8' x 16' print! That would be 4 full sheets of plywood. Somebody help meeeeeeee!!!! I think I need to go engrave something small now. Health to all, Maria ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:19:31 +0900 Subject: [Baren 7699] Re: big'un Maria wrote: > Okay, monster pics are up. > http://www.printmakingstudio.com/studionotes/monster/monstercut.html Maria, do you realize what you are on to here? This is guaranteed CNN material, and I mean _guaranteed_! Do you have an exhibition of some kind coming up? Here's what you do: - - prepare your exhibition as usual - - also prepare one of these prints, to be the 'centerpiece' of the exhibition, front and centre. - - prepare a wide open space in the exhibition gallery, with a car, the inking table, the works. (run a plastic pipe from the exhaust out a nearby window). - - prepare a carving area off to one side, and have another monster cut in progress, with you and Daryl grinding away at it. - - prepare flyers for the media announcing the show, describing what you do, and including some good photos of the process. Talk big! - - send those flyers to every last media outlet on the North American continent. Think big! (Your local library can help you with names and addresses). - - open the show, and 'demonstrate' the printing process continuously. (Practice first, so that you can get predictable results. Don't take _any_ chances of screwing up in front of the cameras). If this doesn't get you some good air time, then nothing will. Do you think this is beneath your dignity? Then don't tell Katsushika Hokusai, who got his big break _exactly_ the same way - by making a monster painting in public. He used a giant brush that he could hardly lift, and ran across a vast sheet of paper that was laid out in a temple courtyard. Once he finished it off, it was hoisted up onto a frame for everybody to see and marvel at. He never looked back ... Dave ------------------------------ From: James G Mundie Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:55:09 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7700] Moser's King James version Don wrote: > My wife gave me a copy of the Caxton Bible for Christmas. > The images are stunning wood engravings done on an epoxy-like > substitute for boxwood. The images are both powerful in design and superb in > technique. I wholeheartedly agree. I bought the volume for my father as a Christmas present and it was such a lovely book I had a hard time wrapping it and handing it over! I spent a good portion of St. Stephen's Day turning those pages again. > The only odd thing about the book is Moser's choice of imagery. > This has got to be the darkest, most violent set of Bible illustrations ever. > There is little in the way of love, grace or redemption coming through, > but lots of violence and death. Great art--skewed theology. I don't know, Don. I found the illustrations rather appropriate. That image of Paul in prison is gor-jee-yus! And that image of Job's boils... now that's engraving! So much of the text of the Bible deals with the nitty gritty of human experience, it only seems right that the illustrations should reflect that sorrow, pestilence and death. Hardly anymore gorey than Dore. I also found it rather interesting that Moser chose to do so many portraits of "minor characters". Seeing his images made me want to get in there and read about those people (although I admit I was too happy turning the pages to find the next engraving to actually _read_ the darn thing). Interesting too for me was to see who Moser's "repeat performers" would be... one could see by the multiple images devoted to Elijah and Job that those were the stories that really stirred his imagination. In fact, I think there were nearly as many images of Job as there were of Christ. Interesting way of approaching the scenes around the Passion, too. It's difficult to make those seem fresh as they have been depicted so often throughout history. *** and John of Georgia said: > Happy Day! Congratulations. Although, isn't caring for the new edition to the family going to put a cramp in your printmaking time? ;-D Mise le meas, James Mundie, Philadelphia USA ------------------------------ From: B Mason Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:34:59 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7701] Southern Graphics council Is anyone on baren thinking of going to this? Mar 1-5 or so.? I a thinking of it, although it is pretty far, 3500 miles or so as the crow flies. I plan to take a plane, not a crow. It would be neat if others were going. Barbara ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:40:38 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7702] Cut the Kento Ok guys go looky lou....... http://members.home.net/woodblocks/kento.html This will enable you to cut a mean kento.......and put some money in your pocket. Love Graham ------------------------------ From: michael schneider Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 12:13:32 +0100 Subject: [Baren 7703] how to make a ball-baren Finally I could finish the description of how to make a ball baren by yourself. The description is to be included in the encyclopedia as soon as David finds the time to add the editors finishing touch to it. In the meanwhile, you can access it at : http://www.t0.or.at/~mikasch/ballen/ballbaren.htm Comments are welcome, as critique might enable us to make the text better before it is moved to the encyclopedia. I hope the description is useful for some of you, michael ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V10 #860 ****************************