Today's postings
- [Baren 26176] Thanks Julio, Magic Paper tricks ("Love Me")
- [Baren 26177] Re: Thanks Julio, Magic Paper tricks (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
- [Baren 26178] Shin hanga shopping (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 26179] chinese watercolor woocut paintings (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 26180] RE: Baren Digest (old) V29 #2814 ("marilynn smih")
- [Baren 26181] Re: ROOSTER (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
- [Baren 26182] Re: ROOSTER (FurryPressII # aol.com)
- [Baren 26183] Shin hanga shopping plus online Japanese print auction (Margaret Szvetecz)
- [Baren 26184] Re: Thanks Julio, Magic Paper tricks (L Cass)
Message 1
From: "Love Me"
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 02:35:16 +1000
Subject: [Baren 26176] Thanks Julio, Magic Paper tricks
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Julio, I am indeed using the occasional sheet of ate-gami to save the back of my prints, when things get out of control. I prefer to see the back of the print and watch the impression sneak through the paper, but sometimes the ate-gami will really save the day.
Talking of magic paper, some very beautiful Suzhou water prints arrived today, and what those Chinese do with paper is amazing. The prints are a combination of very wet printing, dry printing and painting. The paper is incredibly thin and to tidy up the edges the print is trimmed square, and here's the amazing part; a large surround is welded in 4 parts to the back of the print with only the tiniest overlap. Then the entire thing is backed with another sheet of thin paper. The whole arrangement is no thicker than standard washi, and you need to hold it up to the light to detect the construction. Amazing craftsperson-ship!
Tom
Talking of magic paper, some very beautiful Suzhou water prints arrived today, and what those Chinese do with paper is amazing. The prints are a combination of very wet printing, dry printing and painting. The paper is incredibly thin and to tidy up the edges the print is trimmed square, and here's the amazing part; a large surround is welded in 4 parts to the back of the print with only the tiniest overlap. Then the entire thing is backed with another sheet of thin paper. The whole arrangement is no thicker than standard washi, and you need to hold it up to the light to detect the construction. Amazing craftsperson-ship!
Tom
Message 2
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:26:00 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26177] Re: Thanks Julio, Magic Paper tricks
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Tom writes:
"some very beautiful Suzhou water prints arrived today, and what those
Chinese do with paper is amazing. The prints are a combination of very wet
printing, dry printing and painting. "
Check this website out, some very nice work here...
http://www.chineseartnet.com/yangrui/home.htm
Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)
"some very beautiful Suzhou water prints arrived today, and what those
Chinese do with paper is amazing. The prints are a combination of very wet
printing, dry printing and painting. "
Check this website out, some very nice work here...
http://www.chineseartnet.com/yangrui/home.htm
Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)
Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:28:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 26178] Shin hanga shopping
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Shopping report to follow.....not really enormously woodblock related....
I went to the Shin Hanga show at the www.Shogunsgallery.com here in Portland. They had about 15 pieces and all very nice, but all in frames. So it was difficult to really see them through the glass and the lighting was not optimum for art work. They had several contemporary pieces and I really enjoyed seeing those up close as I usually am looking at very old work. They also have hundreds of old stencils for fabric printing and the owner has over 1000 woodblock prints in his personal collection.
On a positive note, the furniture was fabulous and I ended up buying a little Tonsu (spell?) chest to hold all my tools and inks and brushes. It is fairly large 2'x3' and 15 inches deep, with about 6 drawers. This was a really fun store and lots of little surprises, like a closet type room full of all kinds of stuff that was marked down to little money. Think I might go back and get some rice bowls.
The amazing thing in talking to the owner, Jim King and his wife Kimisu (this is a phonetic spelling) is that Kimisu's great uncle was an artist and in some of the books. I need to go back when they are not busy and find out more about him. They knew little about how the prints were technically made so I was able, with my very small knowledge, give them information. They were very interested in the mica and gold applications. Jim especially wants to see one printed, so some day soon when I get the new studio set up, I will invite them over. Kimisu is a lovely lady, very petite fragile bones but probably steel inside, sort of like our steel magnolia ladies. At 5' 8" I felt very very tall next to her and not being a thin person she seemed so small to me. I can imagine how I would feel in Japan, probably like a giant. All in all it was a lot of fun and I highly recommend a visit here if anyone lives close enough or visits Portland.
When I went back to pick up my purchase the next day, I took my Hasui books and also the latest work from Dave Bull. They were impressed with your work Dave. I sent them to our website as well as Dave's and am sure they will spend time enjoying the information so tirelessly compiled on our sites. I will take a few brochures into them so they can give them out if anyone is really interested.
Best to all,
Barbara
I went to the Shin Hanga show at the www.Shogunsgallery.com here in Portland. They had about 15 pieces and all very nice, but all in frames. So it was difficult to really see them through the glass and the lighting was not optimum for art work. They had several contemporary pieces and I really enjoyed seeing those up close as I usually am looking at very old work. They also have hundreds of old stencils for fabric printing and the owner has over 1000 woodblock prints in his personal collection.
On a positive note, the furniture was fabulous and I ended up buying a little Tonsu (spell?) chest to hold all my tools and inks and brushes. It is fairly large 2'x3' and 15 inches deep, with about 6 drawers. This was a really fun store and lots of little surprises, like a closet type room full of all kinds of stuff that was marked down to little money. Think I might go back and get some rice bowls.
The amazing thing in talking to the owner, Jim King and his wife Kimisu (this is a phonetic spelling) is that Kimisu's great uncle was an artist and in some of the books. I need to go back when they are not busy and find out more about him. They knew little about how the prints were technically made so I was able, with my very small knowledge, give them information. They were very interested in the mica and gold applications. Jim especially wants to see one printed, so some day soon when I get the new studio set up, I will invite them over. Kimisu is a lovely lady, very petite fragile bones but probably steel inside, sort of like our steel magnolia ladies. At 5' 8" I felt very very tall next to her and not being a thin person she seemed so small to me. I can imagine how I would feel in Japan, probably like a giant. All in all it was a lot of fun and I highly recommend a visit here if anyone lives close enough or visits Portland.
When I went back to pick up my purchase the next day, I took my Hasui books and also the latest work from Dave Bull. They were impressed with your work Dave. I sent them to our website as well as Dave's and am sure they will spend time enjoying the information so tirelessly compiled on our sites. I will take a few brochures into them so they can give them out if anyone is really interested.
Best to all,
Barbara
Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:40:17 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 26179] chinese watercolor woocut paintings
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Julio,
What an amazing group of works....
http://www.chineseartnet.com/LuPing/home.htm
This was a second artist who does woodblock, interesting that they call them woocut paintings, but it seems a good term to me. Maybe we should adopt it!
It was interesting to see the differences between these two artists who obviously went to the same "school" or are at least greatly influenced by one another or their mutual instructors. I think I actually liked the second one more....maybe the less is more theory. Very nice clean work.
Best to all,
Barbara
What an amazing group of works....
http://www.chineseartnet.com/LuPing/home.htm
This was a second artist who does woodblock, interesting that they call them woocut paintings, but it seems a good term to me. Maybe we should adopt it!
It was interesting to see the differences between these two artists who obviously went to the same "school" or are at least greatly influenced by one another or their mutual instructors. I think I actually liked the second one more....maybe the less is more theory. Very nice clean work.
Best to all,
Barbara
Message 5
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:15:29 -0700
Subject: [Baren 26180] RE: Baren Digest (old) V29 #2814
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I have tried various types of papers for this and found something new at my
grocery store that works very well. I bought parchment paper that is used
for baking, it is found where they sell wax paper, aluminum foil and such.
I have a ball bearing baren, so it works a little different than the ones
that are covered by the skins. I love it but it can be a little hard on
paper.
Julio I wanted to do the new year cards, but i am gone 6 months and would
have missed the due date. It seems i could have been late. Do tell us what
the next animal is, it might be a fun baja project because the prints are
small. Thanks.
Marilynn
grocery store that works very well. I bought parchment paper that is used
for baking, it is found where they sell wax paper, aluminum foil and such.
I have a ball bearing baren, so it works a little different than the ones
that are covered by the skins. I love it but it can be a little hard on
paper.
Julio I wanted to do the new year cards, but i am gone 6 months and would
have missed the due date. It seems i could have been late. Do tell us what
the next animal is, it might be a fun baja project because the prints are
small. Thanks.
Marilynn
Message 6
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:38:33 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26181] Re: ROOSTER
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"Julio I wanted to do the new year cards, but i am gone 6 months and would
have missed the due date. It seems i could have been late. Do tell us
what
the next animal is, it might be a fun baja project because the prints are
small. "
That's the good thing (or maybe not !) about the Chinese Card
exchange...the project is very informal and something
you can pace yourself to do over a long period of time....maybe do & mail
smaller editions of 10-20 prints until you have done enough to cover the
whole list.
The animal for 2005 is the ROOSTER.
do plan on taking part.....have fun in Baja........Julio
have missed the due date. It seems i could have been late. Do tell us
what
the next animal is, it might be a fun baja project because the prints are
small. "
That's the good thing (or maybe not !) about the Chinese Card
exchange...the project is very informal and something
you can pace yourself to do over a long period of time....maybe do & mail
smaller editions of 10-20 prints until you have done enough to cover the
whole list.
The animal for 2005 is the ROOSTER.
do plan on taking part.....have fun in Baja........Julio
Message 7
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:02:41 EDT
Subject: [Baren 26182] Re: ROOSTER
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SO next year is the year of the cock hummm i thought we already did a
shunga exchange.
john center
shunga exchange.
john center
Message 8
From: Margaret Szvetecz
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:48:14 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Subject: [Baren 26183] Shin hanga shopping plus online Japanese print auction
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>...I went to the Shin Hanga show at the www.Shogunsgallery.com here in Portland. .....
>Barbara"
I used to regularly view the following Japanese print auction site:
http://www.woodblockprint.com
On this site there is lots of expensive stuff, but there are always some very inexpensive prints. I've bought prints via this online auction and I've never spent more than $80 per print (plus shipping).
Margaret M. Szvetecz
margarszv@earthlink.net
>Barbara"
I used to regularly view the following Japanese print auction site:
http://www.woodblockprint.com
On this site there is lots of expensive stuff, but there are always some very inexpensive prints. I've bought prints via this online auction and I've never spent more than $80 per print (plus shipping).
Margaret M. Szvetecz
margarszv@earthlink.net
Message 9
From: L Cass
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:21:48 -0400
Subject: [Baren 26184] Re: Thanks Julio, Magic Paper tricks
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Yang Rui's prints are lovely - it would be interesting to know more about
the technique since they're called "watercolor woodcut prints" -are they
like the traditional japanese or perhaps hand-coloured or painted?? (what
a good thing he survived the cultural revolution!) it would be interesting
to view the documentary film on Suzhou mentioned in his bio -I also enjoyed
Lu Ping's work - they do seem similar - the line work appears to be very
soft and gray rather than black or is that my computer?
congrats to all the prizewinners and exhbitors in the Forum
cheers
Louise Cass