Baren Digest Tuesday, 2 January 2001 Volume 14 : Number 1267 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: B Mason Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:21:18 -0800 Subject: [Baren 12726] Happy New Year Happy New Year Baren! Thanks for the great year. Maria, good job on the Baren Suji Newsletter, informative and well done. Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2001, Barbara ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 08:58:17 -0600 Subject: [Baren 12727] Re: relief magazine 01/01/2001 11:00:31 AM Gail S. writes: "Incidentally, since there is no magazine for relief printing as there is for other art media,...." Hi Gail, welcome, check out the BarenSuji newsletters in the main forum page...lot of info and it's all relief related.....the January issue just hit the cyber stands....you will find some in-depth articles written by some pretty fantastic printmakers and another fantastic job by our editor Maria Arango. http://barenforum.org/newsletter/index.html Regarding lino, like Bea said, many bareners do linocuts...my opinion is that sometimes the subject or image dictates the best medium for creation, just like some prints are a hit in one discipline but can flop terribly in others. Certainly if fine lines and detail work is what you are after, wood is the way to go..and even here different types of woods will give you different results....but there is a lot to be said for the free style and spontaneity sometimes found in lino works....this coming from a wood guy. Happy New Year to all......Julio (Skokie, Illinois) ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 12:22:49 -0500 Subject: [Baren 12728] I just met a girl named..... Speaking of Maria, has anyone heard from the young lady lately? Soooo quiet..... Exchange #8 print going well, into the second color. I'm pleased, hope the recipients will be also. A word of caution: black walnut is not a good wood to work with, IMHO. What I thought was dark cherry is in fact walnut, thus all my carving problems. Oh well, better learn my woods to run in this pack. dan dew ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 09:31:07 -0800 Subject: [Baren 12729] Happy New Year Marnie and I wish everyone a creative, productive and successful year. An adage by Stephen Leacock has been our philosophy for years. "The harder I work the more luck I have." Graham/Victoria BC An Island in the Pacific Home of the Boot Camp http://members.home.net/woodblocks/ ------------------------------ From: Garth Hammond Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 10:50:11 -0700 Subject: [Baren 12730] Re: Baren Digest v14 #1266 LINOCUTS VERSUS WOODCUTS Gail, Hi from Denver, I stayed up last night and watched our "Millennial" celebration! I thought that I couldn't make it and I did. Amazing. We went to the roof of our studio building downtown and it was very lovely we could see the length of the Pedestrian Mall (about 1 mile) filled with about 200K of humans. I actually stayed awake and enjoyed it. Age can be tricky! Anyway to the point of this message. I find that many people have opinions about the relative VALUE of a woodcut versus a linocut. I love linocuts, working with them forces you to simplify simplify. This lesson transfers to woodcuts. I think linocuts are lovely. I don't appreciate the Japanese sensibilty although I am in awe of the wonderful tonal gradations possible. Ignorance on my part? Sure could be or inablity to see something different from my experience. I try to never give my power and joy away because of what someone else believes. Opinions are just that. The same with style and the "right" way to cut things etc.. For me the Baren group is great and I approach it as take what I like and leave the rest. I have observed in my life that just because you do something for 10 years or such doesn't mean you are creative or can do it well. Thanks for asking the Ink question i await the answer too. Life is a joy. Garth ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 12:13:32 -0600 Subject: [Baren 12731] Re: Baren Digest v14 #1266 At 10:00 PM 01/01/2001 +0900, Wanda wrote: >I do have a question about this part - why would >you want the carved areas to be more absorbent? Absorbant means less water, so less chance of printing in case I flub it and press paper into carved area by accident -- especially in borders. mikelyon@mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:10:43 -0500 Subject: [Baren 12732] Akua Kolor Sorry to do this on the open forum, but I need the Akua Kolor folks to e-mail so I can ask them some questions. Or, does anyone know if they have a web site? dan dew ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:15:28 -0500 Subject: [Baren 12733] Ignore Hate to do this, but ignore the last post by me. dan dew ------------------------------ From: judy mensch Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:01:53 -0500 Subject: [Baren 12734] Re: Akua Kolor The web site for Akus Kolor is waterbasedinks.com ------------------------------ From: "Ramsey Household" Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 10:51:04 -0800 Subject: [Baren 12735] Akua Kolors Takatch Press has Akua Kolors and touts them highly. Has anyone had = good results with them? How are they compared with Createx? I think I = am going to try them, but would like to hear from anyone who has used = them. Thanks, Carolyn ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:05:39 -0500 Subject: [Baren 12736] Re: Akua Kolors I'm using them now. They roll out very thin, but they have stuff that will thicken them for rolling. I took their advice and just let them sit in the open air for about 10 minutes, rolled out beautifully then. I used them for the background color on: http://www.dandew.com/proverbs15_30.htm Came out really neat on Poplar wood, almost like a watercolor wash. On exchange #8 print I am using Akua Colr on Titikata paper. I printed it once, cut away for a reduction, and printed again, now on to more cutting and the final color. Oh well, ink has sat long enough, back to printing. dan dew > From: "Ramsey Household" > Subject: [Baren 12735] Akua Kolors Has anyone had good > results with them? I think I am going to > try them, but would like to hear from anyone who has used them. > > Thanks, > Carolyn > ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 16:08:05 EST Subject: [Baren 12738] Re: tools I have a set of lino tools from dan smith and love them. they did not come with a sharpening stone, but i notice that the wood tools do. so perhaps for lino they do not to be sharpened , but for wood they do??????? the best part of having a full set of several knives is that you do not need to stop and switch blades when you carve, just grab the one you want, not loosing concentration as you work. Marilynn ------------------------------ From: barebonesart Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:19:14 -0800 Subject: [Baren 12739] Re: Baren Digest v14 #1266 Claude, Yes, Green Drop Ink can be reached at www.safeink.com I can't resist getting my .02 worth on the wood vs. lino block discussion. I don't think classy has anything to do with it - they are just two different methods of achieving a goal. I have seen some pretty darned classy linocuts. The main differences, as I see it, are: you cannot print hanga on linoleum, you don't get any woodgrain from lino (duh!), it is easier to get fine lines on lino unless you are willing to spend big $$$ for hardwoods, which are harder then to cut. Anyone else with other differences? Sometimes it is really difficult to tell the difference between the two. Sharri ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 16:59:35 EST Subject: [Baren 12740] Re: What a sales pitch ! I just returned from a trip to baja, mexico. there is a small town there called todas santos where there are many artists in residence. one in particulay caught my eye, her work was lovely. but what i found disconcerning was the comment that the giclee print was of such great value and was selling for almost the same price as an original piece. she was said to have had this print done in the states, so her sales person said it was of higher quaity then the prints she was running off her computer locally. at least her computer prints were not numbered and they were open about saying that if you bought one it was a print of an original printed from a computer printer. ???????? ------------------------------ From: Gary Luedtke Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:34:21 -0500 Subject: [Baren 12741] Re: What a sales pitch ! charset=ISO-8859-1 This message just contributed by an anonymous poster, caught my eye. I would guess maybe it was by georga because of its lower case letters, bu= t as it started with a capital and _then_ dropped them, I'd have to hedge that bet a little. : ) It involves the Mexican artist cited, but no media was listed as the primary one. She sells computer prints and Gicl= ee prints. What media was the "original" print done in? Woodblock? >>I just returned from a trip to baja, mexico... what i found disconcerning was the comment that the giclee print was of such great value = and was selling for almost the same price as an original piece. The Giclee may offer a better quality paper and perhaps some inks which a= re a little more lightfast, but other than that, there is nothing to make it= 's price comparable to the original unless the original was done on the computer and was an inkjet print. But if that were the case, the Giclee= would be the more expensive of the two. < Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:25:40 +1100 Subject: [Baren 12746] Re: Snakes away Right ho, 55 of my snakes are stamped and flying. Just a note to let the "powers that be" know that, I'll have great trouble fulfilling my commitments to anyone above number 60, as I capped the edition there. Regards Lawrence ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:24:08 EST Subject: [Baren 12747] Re: Newbie with questions Barbara how wonderful of you to explain something so simply that i have not taken the time to learn, hanga is waterbased. with my watercolor background and my akua kolor wow i need this. so you see those of us who are newer to printmaking need you guys to point the way. wow, now i know i need to learn hanga. and i guess i need to spend hours on david bulls site learning stuff. then i need a piece of wood and paper. so now the discussion and the arguments over what to allow has excited at least one member enough to make me want to go tomorrow and buy that piece of wood and play. Marilynn Portland Oregon ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 23:36:59 EST Subject: [Baren 12748] Re: woodblock or? i concede that there are other groups that focus on printmaking and i agree that to have this forum focused on wood is primary, but remember that with a linoblock i too am carving. and maybe for me the linoblock will step me into wood, just be kind ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v14 #1267 *****************************