Baren Digest Wednesday, 21 February 2001 Volume 14 : Number 1329 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Garth Hammond" Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:07:52 -0700 Subject: [Baren 13531] Re: Blocks and more blocks. charset="iso-8859-1" RE:MDO Is that the stuff they call "signboard"? Looks like masonite, but is smooth & very stiff? I have some barn doors with that stuff on it - it really holds up to the weather, but I don't think I'd want to carve on it. Wanda I don't know, I know they use it for furniture and for the back boards on the pads you see hanging in football stadiums etc. give me a month or so and I should be able to let us all know. It is tough. Garth ------------------------------ From: "Murilo Pereira" Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:06:24 -0300 Subject: [Baren 13532] Re: Juan Guerrero, Mexico charset="iso-8859-1" JUAN, voc mora em Mexico y must compreender Portuguese. Obrigado, gracias, por escribirme, it helped a lot. Abrao. Murilo, Florian—polis. ------------------------------ From: barebonesart Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:56:50 -0800 Subject: [Baren 13533] Re: Baren Digest v14 #1328 Jeanne, It sounds like you are going to have to invest in a dehumidifier. I don't know how else you can keep the mildew from forming in a damp climate. Did you have your bleach solution mixed strong enuf? I can usually get it all out that way. Sharri ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:07:04 -0700 Subject: [Baren 13534] Re: Juan Guerrero, Mexico Murilo Pereira wrote: > > JUAN, voc mora em Mexico y must compreender Portuguese. Obrigado, gracias, > por escribirme, it helped a lot. Abrao. Murilo, Florian—polis. Hey, I can almost understand that! Is this close? Juan, ............. ...... in Mexico you must understand Portugese. ........ thank you for writing, it helped a lot (;-)) Obliged?, Murilo Flowercity......right? Sorry for the silliness. I'm still thinking about printing with house paint on tyvek, we may be onto a whole new invention in block printing here. I think we just have it way too easy in the USA - everything handed to us on a silver platter. And now that we have the Baren Mall, we even have access to the materials that we need from Japan! Speaking of the Mall - I ordered some of that "Neri-zumi" stuff - and boy oh boy is that *black*. I mean intense, velvety black! Black-hole black! I think my next black & white print will be printed with that stuff. It is listed in Matsumura-san's section under "Pigment Miscellaneous" Speaking of Pigment Miscellaneous - I printed my #8 print with some of Matsumura san's pigments (generously given to the boot camp participants by David Bull) & they are truly a joy to work with. I am hooked on the dry pigments for sure. When you get #8 (soon!) let me know what you think of the colors. I'll be interested in hearing opinions. Wanda ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:49:42 -0800 Subject: [Baren 13535] Re: Hand coloring charset="iso-8859-1" I have done hand coloring by taking a rubbing of the print using burnt sienna pastels and then using ink and palate knife to get a painterly ground. I then printed my block on top of it. It is both a print edition and a unique underpaint. I did not try to get an exact lineup of print and rubbing. I like the offset look. Another way that gives a unique quality is painting with watercolors on the back of the print. This works well if the paper is not sized. It doesn't matter if it is an oil or water based print. The color coming through from the back of the print is very interesting. Bea Gold, Los Angeles, CA, USA ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:24:09 EST Subject: [Baren 13536] Re: Printing on Tyvec ... the prints from Kampala are marvelous. Now I will show my ignorance, what is Tyvec? Marilynn ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 03:15:15 EST Subject: [Baren 13537] Re: hand painted prints Bea thanks so much for sharing. I had not thought of hand coloring my black and white prints. But I have a small series that is mostly just lines that I never thought was complete, what an exciting way to make them complete. This is a new project now for me. As a painter I will truly be combining the printmaking with the painting, how exciting. Thanks for the ideas one and all. Marilynn ------------------------------ From: "Murilo Pereira" Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 06:47:20 -0300 Subject: [Baren 13538] Re: wanda charset="iso-8859-1" Almost;;; It1s not Flower city, it' Floriano's city , city=polis. OK? Mu. ------------------------------ From: "Gregory Robison" Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:06:57 -0800 Subject: [Baren 13539] Kampala Show, Tyvec, etc. Edinburgh, 21 February 2001 1. Additional works by Ugandan participants in the Ju nin, to iro show = in Kampala in May 2000 can be seen at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~ugart/texts/artists.html This is the address of a page of the unfinished site originally intended = to accompany the show. The links to Baren and the explanatory page were = never created, but the list of Ugandan artists, their work, and their = self-drafted bios and explanations of their submission pieces do work. =20 2. No one was printing on Tyvec in Uganda, as far as I know. The pieces = I brought to Graham's Book Camp were printed on fabric stiffener or = filler (a product that goes by several trade names), since this was = readily available through sources in the garment confection industry and = prints much more evenly than hard, smooth papers intended for offset = printing or other uses. It resembles Japanese handmade paper in some = respects (emphasis on the "some"). 3. The printmakers of Uganda were so pleased with their joint show with = Baren that they wanted to do it again the following year. I'm no longer = there, but offered to help them make it happen if their enthusiasm held = up. Their Uganda Printmakers Association formed in the aftermath of the = show has held one exhibition (their "members show") and has held a = members show already. Last year I simply used one of the Baren = exchanges for the international side of the show. It would not have to = done this way this year. I will confirm with the Ugandans that they are = still going ahead, and see if they want to do something on a theme or = with particular size constraints, etc., and get back to Baren on this. = If confirmation of interest does come back to me from Kampala, I will = invite Baren participants to communicate with me about this off-list. 4. Could Peter White and Josephine Severen contact me, also off list? I = had packets of their Kampala Show results returned to me, and in the = chaos of my move from Africa to Scotland (and possibly their house = moves, too), I have some unfinished business with them. Gregory Robison ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v14 #1329 *****************************