Baren Digest Tuesday, 26 June 2001 Volume 15 : Number 1471 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:15:14 EDT Subject: [Baren 14968] Re: What about DVD? I have a DVD player and a CD rewrite, can't burn a DVD tho. Marilynn --------------------------------------- From: Steve Goddard Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:46:17 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14969] Re: Archives <200106201925.EAA41910@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> Hi Barbara, Here are some links for your article: history of the museum with back links: http://www.ku.edu/~sma/smahome/information/history.htm Here is my vita;: http://www.ku.edu/~sma/sgvita.htm my prints: http://home.earthlink.net/~goddardfarm/prints.htm As for more human stuff -- Myfirst print was of a grasshopper, printed in green from a linoleum block at about age eight. My undergarduate degree was in meta smithing. From there (Grinnell College) I went to work at the Minneapolis College of Art & Desgin as an off campus residence advisor and talked them into giving me free tuition for a print class, which allowed me to make prints all day and all night. From there I started an MFA program in printmaking at the University of Iowa but switched to art history after a year off sorting life out and working as a carpenter. I returned to the U of Iowa and got my MA and PhD in art history -- and found myself in Belgium, where I had done my doctoral research, trying to get back to the U.S., finally got an internship at the print dept. of the Yale University Art Gallery which brought art history and love of prints together for good. Been here about 16 years. Other things: prints-l, our website ... what else can I tell you? We live on 25 acres in rural Douglas County where we have a horses, a donkey, chickens, geese, cats, dogs, and a nice vegetable garden. The printroom is used for teaching classes from all around the university (women's studies, French, art & design, art history, etc.) so our holdings are heavily utilized. I'm sure we will use the Baren portfolios in conjunction with our art & design printmaking classes, as well as when I talk about recent phenomena in printmaking, esp. the globalization of print lore facilitated by the www. Just free associating here, anything else? Do you need a specific scan sent or can you just snag one of the jpegs from my website? "taking out the trash" is probably the most involved print, and I'm fond of all the dogs as well as the ABCs, which I will probably never finish, alas. Steve ------------------------------ From: Steve Goddard Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:02:18 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14970] super oops <200106200052.JAA70370@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> <200106201925.EAA41910@ml.asahi-net.or.jp> Well, as I said last week in response to Barbara's inadvertent post to the entire list, I still do it as well. Sorry everyone, that last post was meant for Barbara -- now the challenge will be to write an article that doesn't use anything in that note. Egad. Hi Barbara, we'll talk. Steve ------------------------------ From: "Asbjorn Hollerud" Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:59:31 Subject: [Baren 14971] intaglio woodblock Thanks for your replies on intaglio woodblock. Personally I find it strange that not more printmakers make use of this dramatic effect. I think intaglio woodcuts show the wood quality better than relief prints as you get a sense of the depth of the cuts. It is a pain to get an edition and you do need a lot of ink but I still find the result worth it. I'm thinking about combining intaglio woodblock with collagraph plates. I'm also considering combining woodblock intaglio with slik screen. I think it might be interesting to make the color areas on the slikscreen and then print the intaglio woodblock on top of it. I got the idea after looking at Dean Meeker's prints (he combines collagraph and silkscreen). I'm not a big fan of slikscreen prints but I think it works nice as a combination with something else. Last summer I got to hear a lecture by Clifton Karhu at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Is anyone else in this list familiar with his work? I believe he lives in Hokkaido but he is originally from Minnesota. ps. How can I join the art swap thing ? ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 16:00:06 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14972] Re: Dimitris email, printmaking alive in Evanston, weekend get together in Chicago 06/25/2001 04:00:02 PM Hey Dimitris...I echo Ray's post...keep them coming......there's an old printmakers saying..."measure twice and print once!" My salon prints came in the same packaging that Kate got...but mine were okay...I have also received stuff from overseas in heavy duty packaging were the damage has almost penetrated to the inner box & creased the prints...sometimes I think is just luck...Kate, I am glad my salon print did not get damaged Kate....{;-) {;-) {;-) As already posted by others...a group of us bareners got together on Friday to have dinner and go visit Sarah Hauser's exhibit at WomanMade Gallery. Then on Saturday we spent part of the day in Evanston and at the Skokie Library. It was wonderful to meet & spend time with the group which included Dean Clark & his wife Susan and to hear some great stories about Graphic Chemical and their long history of support for our craft. On Sunday.....Maria and I spend the afternoon visiting the Evanston Fine Arts Fair.....a wonderful show...close to 100 exhibitors...many printmakers. Met artist Ken Swanson from Racine, Wisconsin...he does hand-painted color linocuts. He has quite a variety of subjects (including some very small (2X2") multi-colored prints of fishing lures!) and has a very interesting marketing idea for his smaller prints were for some he frames & sells the lino-block along with the print ..nicely matted on the same frame....thus creating a one & only original piece. I was pleasantly surprised when he started up a discussion on the current problems with repros & poster art....seems that the people doing the fair circuits are also very sensitive to this...four of the printmakers I talked to all brought up the subject on their own....Ken will give us a look at Baren when he goes online next month...his business card and show calendar have a very nice phrase printed at the bottom : "Always Buy Original Art!" . Also got to see some wonderful imagery from printmaker Marvin Hill....his 2D & 3D prints are a collaboration of sorts as he does the carving and key block printing while his wife adds all the coloring to the prints. Very nice! that's it for now....thanks...Julio Rodriguez (Skokie) ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:10:48 -0500 Subject: [Baren 14973] Evanston Art Festival - oops... 06/25/2001 05:10:39 PM Sorry, did not read the festival brochure...must have been walking very fast....actually 230 artists....according to the 12 page booklet putout by the Festival...it includes all the participants, booth numbers & category, advertising....and also a page with "art definitions". While it defines an artist proof, a limited edition, a lithograph and other related techniques....there is no mention or definition of what a "print" is....or a woodblock/linocut for that matter. Beisdes that, very well put tgether. Julio ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:04:46 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14974] Re: Dimitris email, printmaking alive in Evanston, weekend get together in Chicago I'm saddened by Kate's post, for many reasons, least of all that her prints were creased. Since they were sent out in the cardboard packaging, two ply hard cardboard that the post office provided, I felt safe. Apparently, between your place and mine, a very nasty postworker works. I tried to bend the package and had difficulty, that's why I sent them the way I did. I'm not very encouraged to host any more exchanges after this experience! I tried my best and am glad that most were satisfied with the effort. Oh well........ dan dew > From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com > My salon prints came in the same packaging that Kate got...but mine were > okay... ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:08:12 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14975] Re: Evanston Art Festival - oops... Oh boy, I'll probably get in trouble, but,....look what I did: http://www.dandew.com/how_i_dew_it.htm dan dew > From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com > Reply-To: baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:10:48 -0500 > To: baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp > Subject: [Baren 14973] Evanston Art Festival - oops... > > Sorry, did not read the festival brochure...must have been walking very > fast....actually 230 artists....according to the 12 page booklet putout by > the Festival...it includes all the participants, booth numbers & category, > advertising....and also a page with "art definitions". While it defines an > artist proof, a limited edition, a lithograph and other related > techniques....there is no mention or definition of what a "print" is....or > a woodblock/linocut for that matter. Beisdes that, very well put tgether. > > Julio > ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:12:11 -0400 Subject: [Baren 14976] Re: Dimitris email, printmaking alive in Evanston, weekend get together in Chicago Oh my, OH MY. I meant to say "most of all" not "least of all". Sorry. dan dew > From: "Daniel L. Dew" > least of all that her prints > were creased. ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII@aol.com Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:08:05 EDT Subject: [Baren 14977] Re: Dimitris email, printmaking alive in Evanston, weekend get together in Chicago i have been involved with at least a doz excanges from the wood engraving network and 11 of the 12 were delivered perferctly ok one was mis-delivered but i eventually got those as well they had been returned to sender even though the address was correct the first time (i have lived at the same address for twenty years} on the second delivery they came alright. the main difference was that i paid and had certified delivery. It was only a few dollers more and well worth it as i live in the big city in a large apartment building by haveing to sign for it they dan't stuff it into a small mail box. Also they will correctly return it if it can't be delivered not sure if they will do that with regular mail. John of the furry press ps Has anyone ever been to the Hamiliton wood type musium in Two Rivers, Wi? ------------------------------ From: "Garth Hammond" Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:34:04 -0600 Subject: [Baren 14978] Re: Dimitris email, printmaking alive inEvanston, weekend get together in Chicago RE:between your place and mine, a very nasty postworker works Actually if you investigate the issue you will find that most mail including packages is sorted by machines which sort thousands of pieces of mail an hour. I have watched some of this equipment work. An outsize object in the package is exactly what will catch and cause the machine to crumple things quite nicely. so keep the package smooth and uniform and then pray to the gods of the postal machines. anyway that is what i was told by the people who run the machines. ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII@aol.com Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:11:42 EDT Subject: [Baren 14979] Re: Dimitris email, printmaking alive in Evanston, weekend ... looked at daves block dream on the baren web site In a wood wow felt the same way when i saw my first Albreck Durer wood block. John of the furry press ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:19:41 -0700 Subject: [Baren 14980] What about DVD? and # 9 rejects. Hi Bill, I can, have both CD burner and DVD. How do you make a DVD? I am so happy that the #9 set which is great, had people who didn't get on the list so that we could have the salon des refuse'. The whole set is wonderful and especially Megan's. Thank you Dan for putting it together. Bea Gold - -----Original Message----- From: Bill H Ritchie Jr To: baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp Date: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: [Baren 14940] What about DVD? >I would like to know how many Bareners are equipped to play a DVD disc on >their computers? > >Some people have CD/ROM drives on their PCs or Macs. > >I got a PC last November with a DVD drive instead. > >I also got a "CD burner" that "burns" a DVD, too. > >I just finished making a shortened version of a DVD from a 1980 videotape of >Akira Kurosaki printing a woodcut. > >Who else can play it, though, besides me? > >Anyone? > > ------------------------------ From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 02:42:37 EDT Subject: [Baren 14981] Re: intaglio woodblock Pardon my ignorance but please try to explain the intalgio woodcut process? Marilynn ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII@aol.com Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:32:09 EDT Subject: [Baren 14982] Re: intaglio woodblock intaligio printing is printing the in the reccesed parts of the plate. the matrix usually copper, zinc, or plastic is eather eitched or engraved to leave depressions in the surface of the plate ink is pushed into these depressions and the plate is wiped untill only the ink below the surface remains a dampened piece of paper is put on the plate and it is run through an etching press under pressure. The paper is pushed into the depressions and it picks up the ink. Other types of materials can be printed in this manner they are generally call caligaph prints wood cuts printed in this manner resemble caligaph prints wood engravings can be printed this way (but i generally find it unsatisfactory) This is gennerally a harder way to go as it pushes the material beyond its normative nature. The wood wants to fight with you. One of the other problems is that the wood absorbs the moisture from the paper and the pressure in the process tends to distort the wood fibers. GOOD LUCK john of the furry press ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V15 #1471 *****************************