Baren Digest Tuesday, 19 September 2000 Volume 12 : Number 1149 ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ From: LEAFRUTH@aol.com Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:04:17 EDT Subject: [Baren 11351] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1148 Another wonderful book written by the author of the "Horses Mouth" is Art and Reality by Joyce Carey. I don't know if it's still in print but I'm sure any of the websites selling used books could get it. Ruth http://www.ruthleaf.com ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:34:07 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11353] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1148 >Another wonderful book written by the author of the "Horses Mouth" is Art and >Reality by Joyce Carey. I don't know if it's still in print but I'm sure >any of the websites selling used books could get it. Ruth To all. I wonder if I could carry a banner for a moment. Before "modeming" to the internet bookshop, please give the old fashion local corner book store the opportunity to help you. I sure would not want to loose them as part of the social fabric in a community. My only interest in bookstores is I find them neat places to visit. Graham ------------------------------ From: barbara patera Date: Mon, 18 Sep 100 09:49:29 Pacific Daylight Time Subject: [Baren 11354] Re: bookstores Graham, Lets hear it for bookstores.... I couldn't agree more. Love them... like the way they smell... like to touch the books and when the stores are of the new/used variety you never know what you will find. Bookstores are one of the finest places in the world to spend rainy afternoons.... another plus is that if you get tired of book searching you can always draw the other customers. Barbara P. ------------------------------ From: "kate courchaine" Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:06:53 GMT Subject: [none] Hello Barenees and Bareneses, I am experimenting with wood engraving and printed my first block with oil based block print ink on a proof press. It worked, but I have heard of very stiff ink being recommended for wood engravings. Does any one have any ink recommendations for wood engravings? If so where is your favorite source for said ink? Also I was not really sure how to clean the block-so I just pressed off the ink. What do other printers do? Kate Courchaine __________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: Don Furst Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:41:50 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11356] Re: ink for wood engraving Kate, Try Graphic Chemical's Etching Stiff Black. This stiffer consistency is less likely to slop into delicate burin-carved lines than a runny relief ink. --Don Furst At 07:06 PM 9/18/00 +0000, you wrote: >Does any one have any ink >recommendations for wood engravings? ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:41:01 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11357] Re: engraving charset="Windows-1252" Standard relief ink is just fine for engravings, the secret is to have a very thin but even layer. You can stiffen ink a bit with whiting. Also, when I had trouble printing a delicate block, I received good advice from a lot of people, but what made the biggest difference was the paper. Andy English recommended very smooth paper and that did the trick. Experiment with Masa, a thin smooth and affordable paper. Also, any of the plate finish papers will give you incredible detail. My personal favorite ink for engravings is Graphic Chemical, also in that page of suppliers. Rembrandt inks are incredibly smooth and buttery, I almost want to make a sandwich with them, but a bit soft for engraving. I recommend that you get a paper sampler from several suppliers, Dan Smith, Hiromi, McClain's, and Rembrandt have paper samplers http://www.printmakingstudio.com/artsupplies.html You are generally looking for very smooth paper with sizing, the thinner the better. Cleaning engraving blocks is always a darned shame, because you lose all the wonderful details. I usually print on newsprint until there the ghost is almost gone and then I wipe with mineral oil (baby oil). To bring out the design when I want to show blocks to people, I fill the lines with chalk dust or with fine saw dust, then I seal the block with acrylic spray. They look like tiny works of art themselves, I've been thinking about oil painting the block once I'm done with the edition. Ooops, sorry Dave, I said the 'ed-word' ;-) Do visit Andy's site for more information and a wonderful collection of his work. http://freespace.virgin.net/a.english/print.htm Health to all, Maria <><><><><><><><><><><><> Maria Arango, Printmaker Las Vegas Nevada USA http://www.1000woodcuts.com maria@mariarango.com <><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ From: "Tyrus Clutter" Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:46:04 -0600 Subject: [Baren 11358] Re: engraving One of my former professors actually does make the blocks into their own = new work of art after he finishes his editions. HE cuts up his woodcuts = (usually consisting of human and animal forms) and then assembles them a = thick relief collage/assemblage sculpture which is wall mounted. The = blocks, prints and eventual "scultpures" are not ever very large. His = style is akin to Baskin and I've always almost enjoyed the blocks more = than the prints! TyRuS ><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~>< Prof. Tyrus Clutter Director of Friesen Art Galleries Dept. of Art & Music Northwest Nazarene University 623 Holly St. Nampa, Idaho 83686 TRClutter@NNU.edu (208) 467-8398 Standard relief ink is just fine for engravings, the secret is to have a very thin but even layer. You can stiffen ink a bit with whiting. Also, = when I had trouble printing a delicate block, I received good advice from a lot of people, but what made the biggest difference was the paper. Andy = English recommended very smooth paper and that did the trick. Experiment with = Masa, a thin smooth and affordable paper. Also, any of the plate finish papers will give you incredible detail. My personal favorite ink for engravings = is Graphic Chemical, also in that page of suppliers. Rembrandt inks are incredibly smooth and buttery, I almost want to make a sandwich with them, but a bit soft for engraving. I recommend that you get a paper sampler from several suppliers, Dan = Smith, Hiromi, McClain's, and Rembrandt have paper samplers http://www.printmakingstudio.com/artsupplies.html You are generally = looking for very smooth paper with sizing, the thinner the better. Cleaning engraving blocks is always a darned shame, because you lose all = the wonderful details. I usually print on newsprint until there the ghost is almost gone and then I wipe with mineral oil (baby oil). To bring out the design when I want to show blocks to people, I fill the lines with chalk dust or with fine saw dust, then I seal the block with acrylic spray. They look like tiny works of art themselves, I've been thinking about oil painting the block once I'm done with the edition. Ooops, sorry Dave, I = said the 'ed-word' ;-) Do visit Andy's site for more information and a wonderful collection of = his work. http://freespace.virgin.net/a.english/print.htm=20 Health to all, Maria <><><><><><><><><><><><> Maria Arango, Printmaker Las Vegas Nevada USA http://www.1000woodcuts.com=20 maria@mariarango.com=20 <><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ From: "Robert Canaga" Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:07:36 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11359] Re: charset="iso-8859-1" Try Charbonel(sic) pencil black or actualy any of their inks. Litho inks work best as they are stiff, very dense, and as you work them they become softer, you get that nice hissing sound when you roll them up. Robert ------------------------------ From: "pwalls1234" Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:23:41 -0500 Subject: [Baren 11360] Re: bookstores charset="iso-8859-1" Books in a store??? What is that all about?? There is nothing quite like ordering that book you just thought about at 3:47am. I must not be old fashioned enough for Graham and comapny. pete baton rouge ;-) ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:16:41 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11361] Re: bookstores charset="iso-8859-1" Pete wrote: > There is nothing quite like ordering that book you just thought about at > 3:47am. May I add??? ....in the comfort of my underwear? sorry soorry soooorrry Self-Banned for the day, Maria <><><><><><><><><><><><> Maria Arango, Printmaker Las Vegas Nevada USA http://www.1000woodcuts.com maria@mariarango.com <><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ From: Chris Bremmer Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 11362] Which waterbased ink to use? Hello, I've seen a couple different companies with waterbased woodcut ink, and am wondering if anyone has had any success in using these? I've tried Speedball but am looking for something a little more greasy, or slower drying. I haven't tried Speedball's extender yet. Thanks, Chris ------------------------------ From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:07:19 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11364] Crude American I loved hearing about Ruth Leaf's opening! Congratulations and thanks for writing a report Maria, I look forward to the pics on Baren suji. Can I send you a pic of me with Kat Pulkas and Lezle Williams? What's the next deadline? I think Dave is calling me crude! ;-) I'll never notice the finer points of cutting with my coarse lines! Insulting the character of my blocks, too...mere plywood he says! Ah well, not for me the fine boxwood of...which Japanese island has the best boxwood? I'm just a simple American girl, doing my best with plain old shina ply! Thanks for clarifying the finer points of cutting, Dave. The web photos are very helpful. I'll continue to tell people to cut with the bevel toward the color area, at least for now. Any word on cheap barens anyone? I'm trying to get folks interested in this technique, but the big barrier is the expense of tools, especially barens. (Lee Valley has the cheapest Japanese cutting tools if anyone is looking.) April Vollmer 174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002, 212-677-5691 http://www.aprilvollmer.com ------------------------------ From: barbara patera Date: Mon, 18 Sep 100 20:19:56 Pacific Daylight Time Subject: [Baren 11365] bookstores O.K., O.K.....differing habits for 3:47 a.m. are emerging.... around here it's the back deck "Coon and Possum" show.... Leave the bookbuying for later in the day cause I get a kick out of ruffling pages and stroking bindings. And there is always the lure of finding a gem .... my best to date is a small book (diary of his stay in Alaska) written by ,and illustrated with the woodcuts of, Rockwell Kent. Barbara P. ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:46:31 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11368] Re: Crude American >Any word on cheap barens anyone? I'm trying to get folks interested in this >technique, but the big barrier is the expense of tools, especially barens. >(Lee Valley has the cheapest Japanese cutting tools if anyone is looking.) > April, I was thinking about the barens that John Roots was developing the other day. I thought he would have finished with the project in Edmonton by now..... alas not so. I sure hope he gets back into the swing of things here soon. I just printed 25 sheet of a 20 colour image and I can assure you that the barens he made for me to test were superb. As soon as I hear I will let you know. Lee Valley and Japanese cutting tools.....???? I have their newest catalogue and will a a serious looky lou. Graham ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V12 #1149 *****************************