Baren Digest Monday, 25 September 2000 Volume 12 : Number 1155 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 09:29:00 EDT Subject: [Baren 11415] newspaper subscription Hi Dave, I'd surely subscribe to the New York Times (or the Post or the Daily News or even the National Enquirer!) if they were to offer me woodblock prints - or reproductions, cause as I said, these are of very fine quality. Thanks also for the info on the little print you sent me. Enjoyed the discussion on showing the woodgrain, this has happened to me by mistake a few times, who knows how I achieved it, but I think I was using more water & less paste. Good luck April, oh yeah, and tell those old guys Picasso, Albrecht and Gauguin hi for me, I haven't seen them in a while :) best wishes all Sarah ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:20:23 -0500 Subject: [Baren 11416] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1154 Hi, April... Subject covered pretty thoroughly already, but one additional 'technique' and one visualization to suggest -- Technique: when brushing out the color on the block, finish up stroking with the grain (not across). Visualization: Wood can be visualized as zillions of bundles of long soda straws (the 'grain') or tube bundles. Think intaglio. Use less medium so color will settle into the little open tubes of the grain and not stand up too much on the less porous surfaces. Then use more pressure so the (relatively dry) paper will be pressed into the (relatively wet) grain tubes and suck up the (relatively dense) pigment there. I liked Graham's descriptions very much, but cherry does leave a wonderful wood grain impression (bass wood does not), too (much subtler than Saito's prints, though!). Choose your wood carefully with grain in mind, don't seal it, and don't print too wet! Mike Lyon mikelyon@mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ From: James G Mundie Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 16:51:53 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11417] Print Exhibition at Camden County College (Blackwood, New Jersey) The Art Gallery of Camden County College presents PRINTMAKING INVITATIONAL: Recent Works by ALYSE C. BERNSTEIN, ALEX MINOTT and JAMES G. MUNDIE 3 to 27 October 2000 opening reception: Tuesday, 3 October, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. For gallery hours, please call 856.227.7200 ext 4201 The Art Gallery at Camden County College Lincoln Hall Blackwood NJ 08012 ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:49:06 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11418] Re: Baren Digest V12 #1154 Mike wrote..... >I liked Graham's descriptions very much, but cherry does leave a >wonderful wood grain impression (bass wood does not), too (much >subtler than Saito's prints, though!). Choose your wood carefully >with grain in mind, don't seal it, and don't print too wet! Yes cherry does leave a good wood grain. When I made that statement it was a comparative one with cedar. It is the best. I wonder if you are talking about Shina plywood when you say basswood "does not". I have good success with the board or planks of basswood I use. As a matter of fact I have situations where the grain as raised part way through a print and have had to stop and wet sand to get rid of the damn grain. In talking to the former Curator of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria he advised that Saito would find old weather beaten fir plywood to achieve his texture. He was the person that 30 and 20 years ago had the presents of mind to collect Saito's prints for the Galleries collection. Graham Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. ------------------------------ From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:31:22 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11419] Grain Wow, am I happy to be a member of BAREN! Thank you all for the suggestions about printing wood grain. I can't switch wood, since the block is already cut in shina, but I'll try less paste, more pressure, and wetter paper. I'll let you know how my printing goes. Thank you, thank you!!!! April Vollmer 174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002, 212-677-5691 http://www.aprilvollmer.com ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V12 #1155 *****************************