Baren Digest                Friday, 5 July 2002        Volume 20 : Number 1887


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From: G Wohlken <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:46:25 -0400
Subject: [Baren 18638] Horacio's Print 

Just a quick plea.  I already posted on PA, but will post here, too, as 
many of the same people who were in Endangered Species, were also in the 
Sacred Trees exchange.  My Sacred Trees package by accident did not 
include Horacio's print and I didn't discover it until I tried to put 
the placecard with the print (I had gotten the colophon from the website 
because I didn't receive one with my original package) and Horacio's 
name was there on the website.  I had assumed all along that his print 
was in my package of prints, and it wasn't.  Does anyone who was in the 
Sacred Trees exchange have their copy of Horacio's print and would be 
willing to loan it to me for use in the show for two months.  Even 
though I wouldn't have it in time for tomorrow night's Opening, there's 
a place I can put it and there would still be a couple months left of 
viewing of his print.  Unfortunately, we weren't able to use his 
wonderful, poignant  Endangered Species print because there is a ruling 
by the Trustees of the park about not having images of nudes in shows as 
families with young children come through and this is a conservative 
area, unfortunately.  The coordinator of the show loves his print, as do 
I, but she has to follow the rules, herself.  In a recent show she had 
hung a lovely piece with a nude and was asked to remove it.  You might 
ask, well what about Julio's tree and Maria's.  They got in (Maria's 
were androgynous, and Julio's looked like a tree to me until after we 
got it hung and Jim said, look at all those people!, and that's when I 
discovered all the folks in the tree, and a noticeably nude silhouette 
of a woman), but then the Trustees will be at the opening, so who knows 
  [:-)] . You can contact me offlist if you have a copy of Horacio's print 
to loan.    

Gayle
Ohio (USA)

   
   
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From: John and Jan Telfer <jtelfer@iinet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 02 23:07:57 -0000
Subject: [Baren 18639] Home again, home again jiggety jig 

Hi Everyone,

I arrived back in Perth on Sunday after a month in Canada and America 
doing two weeks of Graham Scholes Woodblock Printing (Bootcamp) workshops 
and a wonderful week with Barbara and Dennis Patera.  The first week of 
Bootcamp was one of consolidation from last year.  Graham is an excellent 
hanga teacher with patience and tact! Kent and I went all "prepared" with 
woodblocks cut!

I was ever so lucky to have the same unique set of guys with me again - 
Kent, Richard S, Richard B and John Root (the talented baren maker, John 
Root, to boot!) with Frank Trueba able to join us that week.  Doing a 
live-in workshop gives you consistancy day after day for a good focus on 
printing......We missed you Marco and Bill.

But we also had fun and lots of that, too.

Second week of Bootcamp....Richard Brown came back to complete his 
interrupted week, with Claude Aimee, Charles, Jean, Brenda, Jen, Carole 
and Marilynn.  Graham had his hands full with nine in the class, six of 
whom hadn't done hanga before. We were a handful...with the addition of 
three husbands, one mother and a baby crow to feed as well.

The results speak for themselves...on Graham's Website at < http://woodblock.info > 
and follow the Workshop prompts!  Don't miss the 
good stuff!

I have yet to catch up on the Baren Digest but will be able to do that in 
the next few days.

I am still on Cloud 9....Travel between Perth (Western Australia) and 
Vancouver and return also gave me the opportunity to see eleven full 
length movies!

I'll catch up with you all soon.

Jan

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From: "Jean Womack" <jeaneger@jeaneger.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:28:56 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18640] Re:   Baren Digest V20 #1886 

Soak BFK Rives for 15 minutes.  Then place between two towels and roll with
a rolling pin.  It relaxes the fibers of the paper so that the ink can
penetrate between the fibers.  For Asian  papers, one can interleave with
newsprint which has been sprayed with water.  It also relaxes the paper
fibers, which became intertwined and interlocked in the papermaking process.
Soaking wet is no good for those thin mulberrry papers!  One can also paint
water on, drybrush style, if one is making a stack for an edition.  Put the
stack in a plastic bag and allow the dampness to spread evenly throughout
the stack.  Put it in the refrigerator or freezer if you cant get around to
printing it!  Even in the refrigerator you can get foxing.  Guess how I know
this!  I lost half an edition of Endangered Species by leaving it in the
refrigerator for a couple of weeks.  Oh my goodness, there were the little
black mold spots!  Learning things the hard way is not much fun, is it?

Jean Eger Womack


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From: "marilynn smih" <marilynnsmih@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:48:25 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18641] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1886 

This is a hard decision as I know the disapointment if you sign up for an 
exchange and than are told, you are not really in, even though I said yes we 
still have room for you.  14a surprised me with so many wanting to join.  
The exchange was formed to give those not in the main 14 exchange a chanch 
to join an exchange.  With that in mind and having two who wrote to me 
before the deadline i set wanting in and not being in the main 14 exchange, 
in all fairness I said they WOULD get in if they told me before today.  I 
know I said i would wait list the one request, but she is not in the main 
exchange and to be fair and consistent, I have to change that and add her to 
the exchange and wait list 2 who were the latest to sign and are in the main 
exchange.  Hope there are no hard feelings and knowing from past exchanges 
wait listers will probably get in.  I set the rules and the dates and feel i 
should stand by them.  From now on anyone else wanting in 14a regardless of 
whether they are in or out of the main 14 exchange will be placed on the 
wait list.  Thanks to everyone, it will be fun getting those prints and 
remember we have a colophon page sign up right under the main 14 exchange, 
21 prints due here.
the list is:
1  Marilynn Smith - coordinator
2. Mike Lyon
3. Frank Trueba
4. Gilda Zimmerling
5. Barbara Mason
6. John Center
7. Kat Pukas
8. Sharen Linder
9. Gillyn Gato
10.Monica Bright
11.Charles Morgan
12.Eli Griggs
13.Julio Rodriquez
14.Minna Sora
15.Daniel L. Dew
16.Barbara Patera
17.Linda Hornberger
18.Horacio Soares Neto
19.Sylvia Taylor
20.Bea Gold
Wait list:
1.  George Jarvis
2.  Jean Womack
George and Jean I feel bad and espcially for you George as you signed up 
June 29, but more than likely you will be exchanging with the group.
I just had to feel I set the rules and to be fair had to follow them.
Marilynn



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From: "John Cleverdon" <jhcleverdon@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:47:59 -0700
Subject: [Baren 18642] Re: For godness sake, did you not have enough already ? 

Julio:

Thanks for the website with the write-up on Karen Kunc.  It told me more
than I thought I wanted to know.  I'm even more impressed with her work than
I thought possible.  The color woodcut that was included at the end of the
writeup is fabulous.

John Cleverdon (Point Clear, AL)

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com>
To: <baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:46 PM


> Just in case someone did not get enough....here [is an ] interesting
> writeup....
> http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Kunc_specials.html




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From: Myron Turner <mturner@Ms.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 06:38:46 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18643] Re: For godness sake, did you not have enough already ? 

It does look like a beautiful print.  But what's amazing is the size of the 
edition--150 copies from a reduction block using 36 colors in a print of 20 
x 28 inches.  As a reduction print, this means that quite a few more had to 
be printed in order to test out color combinations.

Another site with a large selection of her prints:

http://www.artline.com/galleries/haslem/kunc/reviews.html



At 07:47 PM 04/07/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Julio:
>
>Thanks for the website with the write-up on Karen Kunc.  It told me more
>than I thought I wanted to know.  I'm even more impressed with her work than
>I thought possible.  The color woodcut that was included at the end of the
>writeup is fabulous.
>
>John Cleverdon (Point Clear, AL)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com>
>To: <baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:46 PM
>

> > Just in case someone did not get enough....here [is an ] interesting
> > writeup....
> > http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Kunc_specials.html



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