Baren Digest                Sunday, 23 June 2002        Volume 19 : Number 1872


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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 10:25:43 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18436] Re: Lynd Ward restrike edition 06/22/2002 10:27:30 AM 

Hi James, thanks for the Lynd Ward info, one of my favorites. You can get
lost in his prints!!! Last month I posted a link to Michael McCurdy;s
website:

http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/

Some really nice stuff in there, a very accomplished and published
illustrator. His engravings are to die for.  There is a photo near the
bottom of this page from 1978 of Ginsberg, McCurdy & Ward taken on the
release of a Ginsberg book called "Moloch'. Worth taking a look to see two
american print masters side-by-side.

http://www.michaelmccurdy.com/penmaen.htm

Often when an artist leaves unfinished work behind, pupils or publishers go ahead 
an assign the work to be finished for publication. I wonder why some of the unfinished 
or uncarved blocks (51, some missing ) were not completed and included...and only the 
completed 26 were included in the book....perhaps out of respect for Ward ? I guess 
I'll have to read that intro to find out !!!!

thanks.....Julio Rodriguez




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From: "Linda" <LMHTWB@prodigy.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:35:57 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18437] Re: jeweller's rouge? 


> Hi, anyone know where I can purchase jeweller's rouge for use on

solarplates?

> Thanks
> Sarah Hauser


Try a hardware store, in the section with other sharpening tools (such as
buffing wheels) and compounds.

Linda


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From: Milky Scarabs <milkyscarabs@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:39:12 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18438] Chine colle 

Hiya.  Whelp, I finished printing my edition for Exhcnage #14 a few days 
ago (ha ha haaa).  I am pondering, though, chine colle-ing each print to 
a thicker piece of paper.  My question is, is it possible to do chine 
colle well without a press, i.e. chine colle with a baren, or via 
sitting or standing and jumping up and down on the work?  Hopefully 
someone will share his/her experience/technique on the matter...  I'd 
appreciate it.  Thanks!   [:)] 

Love <3 & Lint * !
Kat Pukas
http://home.earthlink.net/~milkyscarabs/art.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~teenybooks


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From: "Lee and Barbara Mason" <bemason@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:14:57 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18439] Re: Chine colle 

Kat,
I think it is possible, think of it as wallpaper. If you get enough paste,
it will stick down. Then dry it between blotters to get it to dry flat,
using weights. You might use wax paper in case of glue leakage.......The
trick to get blotters to always dry your work flat is to change them after
20 minutes with newly damp paper and then again every day until the paper is
dry and flat.

I am sure this will work without a press. A press just makes it easier and
faster. I know artists that use a double-stick film for this purpose. I
think it is fairly expenxive, but it works well. Yugi Hiratsuka uses it
exclusively, his work can be seen here http://www.renbrown.com/hiratsuka/ He
is on the board of the NW Print Council so I know him well, he is one of the
nicest people and a great artist. He prints on both sides of very thin
oriental paper and then chine colle's it to BFK or a similar weight paper.
His work is almost exclusively etching, however I did take a summer
woodblock class from him one year and his main contribution to my training
were the words "do whatever works for you, relax, it doesn't matter if the
process is not perfect". This was so great as I think Wanda and I had both
been so consumed with doing everything "by the book" that we were TENSE. If
you want to know the name of the film, let me know and I will email to Yuji
and ask him.
Best to you,
Barbara

 My question is, is it possible to do chine

> colle well without a press, i.e. chine colle with a baren, or via
> sitting or standing and jumping up and down on the work?  Hopefully
> someone will share his/her experience/technique on the matter...  I'd
> appreciate it.  Thanks!   [:)] 
> Kat Pukas
>



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