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Message 1
From: Lana Lambert
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:47:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 35737] Maru Bake issues and Blog issues
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Okay, so the last time I posted to Baren Forum the
post never posted and the blog updater hasn't figured
out that I've been posting to my blog either. I
outlined my last post with images on by blog so PLEASE
go check it out everyone and give me feedback if you
are inspired to do so! Also, I'm going to be having
an interactive contest soon that will feature group
participation and a chance to get some of the prints I
will subsequently be making from my interactions in
this contest.

www.PistolesPress.blogspot.com



-Lana Lambert

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Message 2
From: peart # comcast.net
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:54:58 +0000
Subject: [Baren 35738] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) V43 #4331 (Apr 21, 2008)
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Sharri,
I just received your Rat Card.
It's Wonderful!
Great image.
Thank you!
Terry
West Seattle

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Message 3
From: Dave Bull
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:31 +0900
Subject: [Baren 35739] Re: Maru Bake issues and Blog issues
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> I outlined my last post with images on by blog so PLEASE
> go check it out everyone and give me feedback if you
> are inspired to do so!

If you want [Baren] discussion on any particular point, then post the
question to [Baren]. (With links to any illustrative images, if
necessary). The blog links are for convenience, and to help us all keep
in touch with what is going on 'out there'. They are not intended to be
a replacement for discussion here ...

Anyway, about the brushes:
> When printing, after I've soaked the brush a good 10 to 15 minutes
> (the bristles are suspended in water and the handle usually just
> bobs), I rest it bristles down on a blotter which inevitably gets damp

Your brush is splitting because of excess water absorption up into the
wood handle. You are soaking the brush too much. To clean it, hold it
bristles-down under running water to flush out excess pigment, then
shake/spin out as much of the water as possible, rub away any excess on
scrap paper, and leave it to dry (away from the sun).

The ideal - never realized in actual practice - is never to get the
wood wet. (And never leave it standing on the bristles, as you show in
your photo; that will kill it faster than anything else.)

Dave

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Message 4
From: Blog Manager
Date: 28 Apr 2008 03:55:36 -0000
Subject: [Baren 35740] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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This is an automatic update message being sent to [Baren] by the forum blog software.

The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (47 sites checked, five minutes before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: Woodblock Dreams

Author: Annie B
Item: Matt Brown Woodblock Workshop
http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com/2008/04/matt-brown-woodblock-workshop.html

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Site Name: pressing-issues

Author: Ellen Shipley
Item: Another Prisma-Umi
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com/2008/04/another-prisma-umi.html

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Site Name: Pistoles Press

Author: Pistoles Press
Item: Maru Bake Illness!
http://pistolespress.blogspot.com/2008/04/maru-bake-illness.html

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[Baren] members: if you have a printmaking blog (or a website with a published ATOM feed), and wish it to be included in this daily checklist, please write to the Baren Blog Manager at:
http://barenforum.org/contact_baren.php

For reference, sites/blogs currently being checked are:
http://barenforum.org/blog
http://woodblock.com
http://woodblock.com/roundtable
http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com
http://studiodiary.blogspot.com
http://larimerart.blogspot.com
http://artflights.blogspot.com
http://printmakersmaterials.blogspot.com
http://mlyon.com/blog
http://room535.blogspot.com
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com
http://snowgum.blogspot.com
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
http://theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
http://PLawing-Printmaker.blogspot.com
http://readdevine.blogspot.com
http://mokuhankan.com/conversations
http://mokuhankan.com
http://vizart.blogspot.com
http://phare-camp.blogspot.com
http://amymstoner.blogspot.com
http://williamleeholtfineart.blogspot.com
http://web.mac.com/g_wohlken/iWeb/Site/Blog/Blog.html
http://curiousmatthew.blogspot.com
http://laine.lainegreenway.com/index.html
http://azuregrackle.com/blogs/index.php?blog=2
http://blog.olansa.co.uk/
http://bea-gold-retrospective.blogspot.com
http://www.jauntyrakes.blogspot.com
http://sheiko.blogspot.com
http://studio-window.blogspot.com
http://alynn-guerra.blogspot.com
http://curiouslydrawn.blogspot.com
http://veloprint.blogspot.com
http://kathewelch.blogspot.com
http://serendipityartist.wordpress.com
http://ainescannell.blogspot.com
http://www.pistolespress.blogspot.com
http://1000woodcuts.com/latest.html
http://myhermitude.blogspot.com
http://jenniferscabin.blogspot.com
http://www.woodymoody.blogspot.com
http://www.barebonesart.blogspot.com
http://amandagordonmiller.blogspot.com
http://www.danielallegrucci.com/wordpress/
http://burnishings.blogspot.com
http://kriswiltse.blogspot.com/
http://LynnAllisonStarun.blogspot.com

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Message 5
From: ArtSpotiB # aol.com
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:40:59 EDT
Subject: [Baren 35741] Re: Maru Bake issues and Blog issues
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Hi.

Could I please be removed from the blog notifications? I'm quite content to
enjoy the Baren digest and chit chat... Just too many blogs for me to be
following!

Thanks.



Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste
... Let's put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't
get our deposit back. -John Ross

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Message 6
From: "phare-camp # imp-s.com"
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:13:07 -0400
Subject: [Baren 35742] RE: New Baren Digest (Text) V43 #4338 (Apr 27, 2008)
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"BTW, I have certainly enjoyed watching you make your way through grad
school - are you all finished now?"

Hoo boy, Sharri, I sure wish I was done. I've got 6 more classes at the
academy and anticipate finishing in the fall of 2009. It's those 22 cards
and the problems I had with the plates for the backs. I eventually gave up
on the copper relief plates, the company that made them just couldn't seem
to cut them square--try registering deckled paper to plates that aren't
square! I'm going to try using a cherry plate to carve the plate for the
black parts of the bee tessellation and print it over digital printouts of
the yellow and periwinkle part. I discovered that the sizing on the cards
interferes with the oil based printing so I will just do hanga on the faces
and use acrylic on the back (acrylic paint prints very nicely on dry sized
paper.) So far I have the key lines carved for the fool, priestess and the
magus. I'm about to start the empress and have designed the emperor who
will get carved next. I am also about to start designing the Hierophant.

I'm only taking 2 classes in fall and next spring as I'm trying to get into
a teaching program at the local community college. If I'm accepted it will
need to take 2 extra classes at the community college on top of my academy
classes. The fall semester will be teaching tools class and the spring
semester will be an internship with a printmaking teacher at another
community college. After that I will be placed at one of the colleges in
the district. Its taken me so long because most semesters I took only 2
classes since I was working full time as well. This semester I took 3
since I'm not working full time any more.

It's been a lot of sweat and tears and I'm sure there will be more sweat
and tears along with the occassional blood sacrifice. I don't cut myself
while carving...usually I end up cutting myself while cleaning ink knives
or cutting paper.

Well back to the carving board...

Patti P-C

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