Baren Digest Monday, 25 February 2002 Volume 18 : Number 1738 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Graham Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:32:49 -0800 Subject: [Baren 17187] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1736 >Barbara, the hairs on the brushes that are singed and then scraped against >the sharkskin, or whatever you use intead of sharkskin, are not SHARPENED, >they are SPLIT. It is SPLITTING HAIRS that makes them hold more ink. >Jean E W >e-mail: jeaneger@jeaneger.com >http://www.jeaneger.com Actually Jean the hairs are tapered to a fine point and it is this that enables the pigment to be laid on the plate and not show brushstrokes. If you looked at a brush that has been honed with a shark skin in a magnifying glass you can see the results clearly. Look at: http://www.woodblock.info/bootcamp/inkbrush.html When you use the dragon skin... (cheese grater) the same thing happens but not tapered so finely and there may be some split ends... Regards Graham ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger Womack" Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 20:36:59 -0800 Subject: [Baren 17188] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1737 charset="iso-8859-1" I admire New Yorkers' creativity in their display of prints in frames, non-frames, plastic bags, with grommets, etc. The idea of having a monument of 2,000 prints, 200 prints or whatever, originated with Al Durer when he made the portable monument for Emperor Maximillan III. That memorable print occasionally goes on display in the Smithsonian in Washington. It's not 200 separate prints, but one print on 200 pieces of paper. It was meant to be packed up and carted around. If you ever saw it, you won't forget it, although you might not remember if it was Emperor Maximillian II or Emperor Maximillian III. I think it would be interesting to display the prints on two kiosks that were rectangular prisms. How, then, would the people see the prints at the top? Jean E W e-mail: jeaneger@jeaneger.com http://www.jeaneger.com ------------------------------ From: Jack Reisland Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:53:04 -1000 Subject: [Baren 17189] Re: Ought Not Please, please, I beg every one, please, post sports/political/religious/etc. discussions in Baren After Five, that's what it's there for. Jack R. ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII@aol.com Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:37:20 EST Subject: [Baren 17190] Re: Ought Not sorry but that listing had nothing to do with print making please keep at least to the subject of printing or something losely related to it john center. ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V18 #1738 *****************************