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Message 1
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:45:14 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38296] Re: Baren Member blogs:
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On 8-Mar-09, at 4:54 AM, Blog Manager wrote:
> Item: Block printer extraordinaire !
> http://barenforum.org/blog/archives/2009/03/block_printer_e.html

I wonder who labeled this as Extraordinaire....?

Not really.... it is the way they use to print garment and drapery
materials when my dad was a kid.... We were taught to do this art
school away back when .... well that remains for me to know and you to
figure out.

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Message 2
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:21:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38297] Cohesive art
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Gettting back to the question of cohesive art--
2 cents:
If you work in a series it is bound to be cohesive.
Work in a theme-- --sky, feet, similar colors, whimsy,
caricatures---anything that interests you.
Tweak a favorite piece of your art that you like . Keep doing something
a little different to it.
If you have a particular technique that works for you, experiment and
repeat it.
One idea will feed into another.
Keep enjoying it.. Sooner of later you will see that what you do has your
special look. It's like your signature in that it happens.

(This is not to cast aspersions on any group, but this discussion just
brought to mind this funny quote--
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
_Groucho Marx_
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/grouchomar122546.html) )


Carol
Lyons

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Message 3
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:36:14 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38298] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4733 (Mar 8, 2009)
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Goodness, to tell someone their work had no soul does not seem
appropriate. I once had a painting professor that told me I would
never be able to draw, he had never seen any of my drawings. At the
same critique he told another student that she would never be able to
do interpretive work. We both switched to the other senior painting
instructor and thrived. She created a very interpretive piece and I
started doing memory imagination paintings that became a strong part
of all my work. I think critiques should give guidance and
constructive criticism. Perhaps you had gotten a bit tight trying
hard to present just what you thought they wanted and they should have
said, you need to loosen up a bit and enjoy your work and follow your
heart. That would put soul into the work with ease. Critiquing work
is a sensitive area and one needs to guide the artist not put them
down. Saying this makes me think there is a balance to making cohesive
work, you explore, experiment, create and it will come together with
ease. Once you have found your unique approach it will come
naturally. I used to love to go to the beach, walk and pick
wildflowers and sit with a glass of wine for hours (never drank the
wine, ha) and draw and paint watercolors of them, it was relaxing, a
joy and in the end I had a body of work. Don't we all create because
that is what we love to do??

Marilynn

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Message 4
From: Diana Moll
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:19:58 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38299] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Thanks for the video, Julio, I enjoyed watching this master
craftsman's graceful economy of movement. A good reminder of the
quality of motion that goes into a print.
Cheers from CA's Central Coast!,
Diana

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Message 5
From: Mary Kuster
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:27:16 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38300] Baren "Ads and Ops" Newsletter/Digest
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Repeat of Message 4

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Message 6
From: Mary Kuster
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:28:21 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38301] Baren "Ads and Ops" Newsletter/Digest
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Don't forget that I will be posting the March "Ads and Ops"
Newsletter/Digest on the 15th. I'll need your *ad or op* by the 13th,
please.

Submit ads to ads@barenforum.org


Your ads coordinator,

Mary Kuster
ads@barenforum.org
mkuster@kusterart.com

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Message 7
From: aqua4tis # aol.com
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:51:27 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38302] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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julio
?? i really enjoyed watching this video. things like this are so inspiring and even energizing. thank you
georga

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Message 8
From: "Louise Cass"
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:44:03 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38303] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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On the Baren Rorum entry for this you've said "as he makes his way down the paper"... but this is printing on cloth is it not?! amazing tho' how Iqbal appears to judge the registration by eye!
Louise C.

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Message 9
From: "Louise Cass"
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:47:58 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38304] Fw: Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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sorry for 2 posts but I wrote Baren Rorum instead of Forum, espec embarassing when one's commenting on an error.......
Louise

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Message 10
From: "Maria Regina Pinto Pereira"
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:26:44 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38305] RES: Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Julio



I really enjoyed the video and forwarded it to one group in Brazil.

Lots of people loved it!

Thanks a lot

Kisses

MaRegina

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Subject: Indian Printing Block
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