Baren Digest Friday, 13 April 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1387 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 03:02:05 EDT Subject: [Baren 14161] Re: two questions... the thalo blue akua kolor was the culprit and it is a very staining pigment and dish soap did not cut it. i thought perhaps there was a bit stronger soap out there that would work. Marilynn ------------------------------ From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:27:43 EDT Subject: [Baren 14162] Marilyn Philby show, matting, etc Hi all, Julio, thanks so much for going by the Marilyn Philby show, you're great!!! It's always fun to hear feedback from "on location"! Thanks for the kind feedback on the prints also, I'm glad also to have your work in my collection. As for matting/framing, Wanda, I've faced a similar problem as some of my prints are on very white paper and some on the yellower Japanese paper. Most of my prints I've matted on a white that's not so bright, like an "antique white" type color. I did have to break down and mat one of my prints recently on a brighter white as it just didn't look right otherwise. As for the frames, I prefer natural wood frames. I got some pretty nice ones from Daniel Smith lately, raw maple, you can get any size you need, and they're not too expensive. good luck! Sarah ------------------------------ From: FOO KWEE HORNG Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:44:37 +0800 (WST) Subject: [Baren 14163] Re: Exchange # 9 Hi Bea, I'm finally done. I'll try to send on Saturday but how about return postage/any other fees involved? Please let me know. Kwee Horng, Singapore. ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:45:58 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14164] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1386 Wanda wrote: > >I am trying to get some stuff ready for a show in June & I am having a lot of >trouble with matting. It's the colors! There are a million colors. Anyway, >I do >know that I want to mat them in white - but which white? Everyone I talk >to has a >different color preference - pure white? refrigerator white? Same color as the >print paper white? What are your thoughts on this? Hi, Wanda -- I like 'museum board' -- it's expensive, rag board, acid-free and archival in white. For everything. Black frame or maple frame depending on your work (black is generally OK for everything) and I usually use 4-ply board. The 8-ply looks better, but is much more expensive and much harder to cut. For ease of handling and cost effectiveness, I usually mount my work (using jap. paper hinges and a tiny bit of dilute rice paste onto the 'archival' acid free foam core -- special foam core with no gas and rag surface. Hinge the mat at the top edge. Frame 1/8" larger dimensions than glass (UV proof - or UV plexi -- it doesn't break during shipping) and mat. To make my life easier, I generally mat work to 'standard' sizes -- 16x20 11x14, etc. Mike Mike Lyon mikelyon@mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ From: Alan Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:04:03 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14165] matting woodblock prints Graham asked me to post this to the server. >I have tried numerous mat boards and settled on the Crescent Museum >Duplex Board 32" x 40" Acid Free 100% Rag. The number is BC 1530 >White/Antique White > >The reason for picking this is that it offers the best of two world >for white colour variation on one sheet of mat board. One side is >white and the other is a warm white. >If your print is on a white paper then the use of the warm white >works very well as a slight colour change to the white print paper. >If the print is like Hosho them the white mat works beautifully in a >juxtaposition to it as it set the two surface colours apart. > >I have always used double mats with my prints on Hosho paper (Warm >natural white). I use the white mat first and then with an 1/8" >border the warm white mat on top. This gives a lovely offset of >colours setting off the print nicely. ------------------------------ From: "Garth Hammond" Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:46:16 -0600 Subject: [Baren 14166] Re: two questions... RE: "the thalo blue akua kolor was the culprit and it is a very staining pigment and dish soap did not cut it. i thought perhaps there was a bit stronger soap out there that would work." Marilynn I have been trying different water based inks and have run into the same problem with akua. i was wondering if it might have to do with the mineral content of the water. Denver has pretty average water I think. I use Windex then water and i still don't like the result. Currently I am enjoying Graphic chemicals water based inks the control of stiffness and color density I get is much more consistent. Garth ------------------------------ From: "John and Michelle Morrell" Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:17:10 -0800 Subject: [Baren 14167] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1383, Snake Exchange Offhand I would have to go squint at the signatures to say whose work I've received and whose not. Also, some which are memorable seem to have disappeared, which I credit to visiting children who coveted same. But, I took most of my squirmly friends to work and pinned them (T-pins, no holes) to the walls of my cubicle where they keep me relatively sane. Dimitris' is especially amusing--a chicken in every pot (and two rats for every snake). The packaging was very improvised and, Josephine, if you haven't received his yet, it may be due to postal service. <^><^><^><^><^><^> Michelle Morrell jmmorrell@gci.net <^><^><^><^><^><^> ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v15 #1387 *****************************