Baren Digest Tuesday, 1 May 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1407 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: barebonesart Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:32:49 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14309] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1405 Wanda, I meant (and think I said) to let the ink dry on the block before you start to carve! Yikes, who would start before the ink dried? Imagine the mess! Aaargh - Apparently, I was not specific enough in my answer because one person thought I meant to transfer a xerox image using waterbased roll up inks. No, I meant to print your key block onto paper, then print from that paper onto the next block. Let the ink dry. Then carve. Admittedly, this is not the traditional method! But, sometimes these experimental ways work just as well, if not better - and, sometimes not. The fun is in the trying new ways & new ideas. Call it evolution of process :>) Sharri ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:57:20 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14310] Re: Baren Digest v15 #1405 Hi Sharri, Yes, I understood what you meant - but I think that water-based inks (unless they are acrylic base or something that will harden into a shell) will smear even when they are dry from the moisture on our hands. Heck no, any suggestions are more than welcome on Baren. And hopefully those that try them will tell us about their experiences so we don't all have to experiment with everything! I only have some akua color for roll-up ink here and haven't tried to transfer images onto other blocks with it. The method I'm using now seems to suit my purposes for now. Who knows what the future will hold? Tradition is meant to give us guidelines, not keep us in a box. Thanks for writing, I didn't mean to sound like I was the all-time authority (on anything!) but just another opinion to throw out there. Wanda ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:03:44 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14311] Re: Appropriation FurryPressII@aol.com wrote: > I have been teaching my self the craft of the formschnider woodcutters, > just as earlier I learned what I could about wood engraving. I esp. love the > feel of wood under steel in either of these medium. I esp. understand the John, could you tell us more about the formschnider/woodcutters? I am not familiar with that phrase. > of originality one of the main weakness of American art education is the > belief that things must be original even before the student know how to work > in the media that is being taught. One of my other fears is the creeping in > of censorship. The American art educators seem to be agreeing with you on this - as the last couple of classes I have taken (I am an incurable student) have placed a lot of emphasis on learning the basics before you start getting original! In the 70s & 80s (last century!) it seemed that you just got a weird idea - made something sort of pertaining to that idea & voila! you were a creative artist! I am glad to see a resurgence of the craftmanship of art. Wanda ------------------------------ From: "April Vollmer" Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:29:13 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14312] Small Ponds and Big Crowds charset="iso-8859-1" Dear Kings, Queens and Barenettes, All of you who are not paid up members of Hiromi Paper International (getting a discount and a newsletter), are hereby informed of a very INTERESTING article in the virtual version of her newsletter at http://www.hiromipaper.com/ It's about the WONDERFUL talk I gave there last month. She sometimes has good hanga paper, you have to ask. And BTW I think her mostly sulphite Shiramine paper looks promising for a cheap hanga paper. Hiromi is very knowledgeable about Japanese papers and knows all the Japanese papermakers. Ask her if you can't find what you want at McClain's or Baren Mall. Great variety of gampi, if you're into that. Also wanted to let you know what a FABULOUS demonstration Sarah Hauser and I gave at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival to you gaijin). I am still recuperating, we had literally thousands of visitors. I know, because they took a thousand of my cards. We did our best to enlighten them all about the virtues of moku hanga. My voice is still hoarse. They all LOVED our work...but do you think anyone will buy anything?....ahhhh, life is just not fair! Politely yours, April Vollmer 174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002 www.aprilvollmer.com ------------------------------ From: "bemason" Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 20:29:53 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14313] Paper & crowds April, It sounds like a great time..I bet Hiromi was pleased to have you talk, she sure is a dynamo isn't she? Wish we could have come to the cherry blossom festival and cheered you on, if you gave away 1000 cards, surely one or two of them will result in sales eventually. Thanks for the address of the newsletter. Barbara ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v15 #1407 *****************************