Baren Digest Thursday, 11 July 2002 Volume 20 : Number 1893 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "PHARE-CAMP,PATTI (HP-USA,ex1)" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:38:17 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18685] Anatomy as Art, Unsettling but Drawing Crowds Not long ago I commented that I would never be able to work with a cadaver to draw anatomy and therefore must work with photos. Anatomist Gunther von Hagens has developed a method that could change all that. See the article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/09/arts/09ARTS.html?ex=1026964800&en=9eb73751 64a16b84&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER I could just get carried away as I imagine fully articulated pieces in every art school. To be able to do studies of human or animal musculature from 3D and not have the subject rot before you finish! Such a dream... Patti Phare-Camp "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~Andy Warhol ------------------------------ From: Sharri LaPierre Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:32:40 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18686] LPE Will everyone who has contacted me to sign up for LPE 2 and/or LPE 3, please check the web page and be sure you are signed up for the exchange you intended. If there are errors, or your name has been omitted, please let me know. You might wait until tomorrow to check in order to give Rudolf time to post the latest batch of names I just sent off. Sharri Here's the address: http://www.rst-art.com/lpe.htm ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:34:02 -0500 Subject: [Baren 18687] Re: LPE 07/10/2002 01:36:11 PM Sharri, please add my name to both the LPE events.... thanks...Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois) ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:14:04 -0500 Subject: [Baren 18688] PRINTING WOOD GRAIN http://www.mlyon.com/baren/grain.htm has an example of wood grain printed using a block carved from white oak... Have you been itching to print "grain" ?? Dave Bull recently described how, and it's a SURE-FIRE way to do it 'hanga-style' without using a press or any complicated technique. Dave offered a link to an early example of his which used magnolia, but magnolia is very hard to find here, so here's an example using white oak which is plentiful and easy to find in the US. Red oak or ash would give very similar results and are also relatively inexpensive... about $2 per board foot. A board foot is 144 cubic inches, give or take (for example, a board 10 inches wide by 14.4 inches long by 1 inch thick would be exactly one board footand so would a board 5 inches wide by 14.4 inches long by 2 inches thick).. * Use your normal moku-hanga technique. * Plank grain WHITE OAK block sanded flat and smooth through 400 grit - -- no varnish or other treatment. * Apply pigment the usual way, but brush it out across the grain, ending with light strokes (think INTAGLIO here and try not to pull the pigment out of those hollow grain tube bundles!). * Print with normal to heavy pressure stroking in the direction of the grain onto well sized washi . The examples at http://www.mlyon.com/baren/grain.htm are on UNSIZED gampi which was embossed with a fabric pattern, so the grain hasn't printed quite as sharply as it would if the paper were sized and unembossed. Still very pronounced grain, though. The dark grain areas are produced by the extra ink which gathers in the depressions of the open grain (in the tube bundles). Mike Mike Lyon ------------------------------ From: Printmaker Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:08:57 +1000 Subject: [Baren 18689] Horacio's prints Horacio asked "Thank you Gayle and Josephine. Maybe the Josephine's copy of my print could complete the Gayle's Sacred Tree set and I send another copy to Josephine as soon as possible. What do you think? I also want to know how much Josephine expended in sending the print from Australia to USA to refund her." Horacio, I sent Gayle three prints of yours which were additional to the ones in the archive and my personal set. These were what you sent me with the exchange prints for being available for sale when the sacred tree prints were exhibited. So, you dont need to send me any prints at all! I sent a parcel containing prints belonging to Horacio, Sylivia Taylor and Sarah Hauser (as requested), and Print Australia donated the postage. So it is not necessary for you to send money, it really wouldnt be worth the trouble and bank fees. I'm replying via the list for Sarah and Sylvia's benefit. regards Josephine PS A technical point, edible rice paper is actually made from potato starch, not rice! ------------------------------ From: "Jean Womack" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:00:35 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18690] Re: Baren Digest V20 #1892 Today must be my lucky day. I glanced over and, as houses and stores flashed by, saw a flock of white birds in a lagoon on my way home. I exited the freeway, drove over and found about 150 white pelicans feeding in a lagoon in Larkspur, California. Wow! After painting a quick postcard sketch of them, I leafed through the little pad and found the missing postcard of Royal Arches, Yosemite. So you can stop searching: the missing postcard has been found. And it was NOT a ploy to get publicity, I swear! Now I am searching the house for the teaching credential I just received in the mail because I just got a full time job teaching summer school. Cut! Print! Jean Womack ------------------------------ From: "John Cleverdon" Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:40:39 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18691] Re:Maze Maria: Thanks for the information about the background in "Maze" on Daphne Heavyweight paper. I haven't replied until now because we've had relatives visiting over the 4th and then last weekend we went to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery and saw three plays. John Cleverdon - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Arango" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:26 PM Subject: [Baren 18607] Re:Maze You wrote in reply to my question about the background: > The background tones belong to the paper (also partly to my > much-less-than-perfect digital skills); it is Daphne heavy weight, a > hand-made paper with much body and fiber swirls and a buff/sand tone that > varies from sheet to sheet. This has turned out to be one of my favorite > papers. The lightweight version of Daphne is almost transparent and looks > like a wispy cloud of very light swirls, like fairy trails (you know, the > trails fairies leave on the sky as they travel [;-)] . I printed my latest > series of "life of a tree" wood engravings on this paper. Daniel Smith and > McClain's carry it (www.danielsmith.com www.imaclains.com) > ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V20 #1893 *****************************