Baren Digest Friday, 21 February 2003 Volume 22 : Number 2136 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Frank Trueba Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:20:18 -0800 Subject: [Baren 20788] Re: sheepy print Hi, Sorry for the delay in confirmation, but I did get your sheep print. frank At 07:20 PM 2/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Frank T et al, my sheep print is called "Getting Fleeced", and is a black >& white solarplate etching with two naked plastic babies and one little >fuzzy sheep. ------------------------------ From: Sharri LaPierre Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:17:36 -0800 Subject: [Baren 20789] Re: Baren Digest V22 #2135 And along that same thread of math & art and science, many studies have been made since the development of MRI, and other imaging equipment, and they've discovered that the same neural pathways are used when calculating an equation, working a science problem, playing music, and doing visual art (working out a design problem). The message I get is "they are all equal" - they all use the same part of the brain, even more specifically, the same pathways light up on the screen. As an educator, I find this validation of my own theories, developed over years of observation & therefore anecdotal, as to the value of arts education & therefore the arts should not be cut from the budget any more readily than math or science. On a more personal level, when I was struggling through college algebra & spending many tear ridden nights with an engineer trying to help me, he could never understand it when I would come to him for help saying, "I can see that the answer should be somewhere around such and such, but I don't know how to get there." He insisted I was getting the answers out of the back of the book, but there were no answers there to get - so I convinced him I'm magic and he's believed it ever since. (I just have trouble with anything sequential - LOL) Sharri the Magic-ificent ------------------------------ From: Aqua4tis#aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:42:10 EST Subject: [Baren 20790] Re: puzzle piece hi maria and everyone i finished carving my puzzle piece and i want to tell you that my hat is off to all of you that regularly carve cherry wood im sitting here with several bandaids on and im full of advil because my hands are so sore that stuff is like carving rock!!! on the other hand it holds small lines very nicely anyway ill have it in the mail in a day or so and as soon as my hands recover ill be starting on my elvis-sheep and some of the other blocks i made commitments to do happy printing everyone georga ------------------------------ From: Daniel Dew Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:52:17 -0500 Subject: [Baren 20791] Re: puzzle piece Funny you should post this, I have been considering for days whether to own up to my own recent mistake. I have been working on a 9 x 14" cherry block for weeks, it has been slow going and extremely difficult, but I think my problems are my own doing, not the wood. See, my design includes a basic line drawing, extremely detailed, very cool in my opinion. Problem is, when I transferred the image to the wood, I did not pay attention to the grain of the wood, so all my lines run perpendicular to the grain!!!! So every time my carving tool touches the wood, I am cutting against the grain. Never again! The cuts are clean enough, I just think it would be easier to carve granite than this stuff! By the way, neat story: I found the wood at a local lumber yard. 6 foot in length, 1 inch thick and 16" in width! So cool, only $50.00! I figure I can use one side of the wood, flip it over and use the other side also. Oh well, back to the grindstone. d. dew ------------------------------ From: "Maria Diener (aka Arango)" Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:29:07 -0800 Subject: [Baren 20792] Re: puzzle piece Re: [Baren 20790] Re: puzzle pieceFunny, last piece of birch and shina that I carved, I said: "never again" to the soft stuff. Different strokes, I guess. After going to solid cherry and/or maple I find the plywoods just plain annoying and birch and shina totally unresponsive to my chisels. Softwoods just don't do it for me anymore, I like to carve unhindered by layers or grain and I crave the clean edges of solid cherry. Cherry or maple plywood I can almost tolerate, but I still find myself grabbing for that next piece of solid cherry every time I start a new piece. At the risk of sounding "preachy" and with no offense intended at all, I will say that quality/sharp chisels make cherry as easy to carve as birch going with the grain or across. I do mean SHARP chisels, I sharpen or hone several times during a long carving session. My only problem so far with solid cherry has been the occasional knot, one of which put a big dent right in the midst of my favorite Flexcut. Incidentally a Japanese steel gouge sliced right through the pesky thing. I'm impressed with the piece of wood, Dan. I have a lumberyard save me 3/4" to 1" thick cherry in as wide a board as they can get. Twelve inches are common, although those cabinet guys think they are "wide"; occasionally I get a 15" piece and once I got a surprise with a 18" piece. I usually buy solid cherry bulk once per year or so and the shipping is as much as the wood. No local lumberyards here carry the stuff, although I can find good maple boards. The same lumberyard will join boards for me and come up with as big and wide pieces as I fancy; my last 24" x 36" joined board is still waiting for a burst of (large) inspiration. The only thing I don't like about joined boards is the final block just ain't as purdy. Oh, and for a real treat, carve Corian or boxwood...now THAT is tough going! Maria <||><||><||><||><||><||> Maria Arango Las Vegas Nevada USA www.1000woodcuts.com <||><||><||><||><||><||> ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII#aol.com Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:34:36 EST Subject: [Baren 20793] Re: puzzle piece On the wood thing again Maria hehe The way you have your blocks put together by a cabinet maker wonderful. (I had my eye on that big block lucky I have some moral values hehe) I have carved a block I put together like that for the next L.P.E. 24" by 30" plank grain maple block. Smaller boards glued together keep the warping done to a min. One of the good things about the maple plywood you used for the puzzle pieces is that it would not warp. But plank grain is much easier to use a chisel and mallet with. But if you want a strong solid black with the most details possible use "corian" like a wood engraving and the stuff will not warp either. Pear or apple anyone??? If i am not mistaken Albrect Durer used pear. I have only used two boards of the stuff was fun to carve. ------------------------------ From: slinders#attbi.com Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:33:47 -0600 Subject: [Baren 20794] Help in contacting Patty Litton... Patty Litton , please contact me off list. Thanks! Sharen Linder ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V22 #2136 *****************************