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Message 1
From: Linda Beeman
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:31:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40880] acidic content in paper
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Maria now I am freakin' out. I've been using Kihada from the Baren Mall
exclusively for my last several prints. I never thought about ph and acidic
content. I haven't noticed that my prints fade out like yours did (I tend
to go too light at first anyway) but I use watercolor - not Akua that I
think you said you used. I don't know if the binder in Akua had a reaction
with the acid that plain watercolor doesn't?

Do I need to start worrying that my prints are going to self destruct????

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Message 2
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:49:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40881] RE: acidic content in paper
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If the colors self destruct, they would do so in about a 24-48 hour period
after printing. I have not seen any additional fading of color after that.
My prints are all completely dry now and "holding" what pigments are left
just fine.

I think it may have been a bad batch, purchased in 2005. Nothing else in my
paper drawers is acidic and I interleave with glassine. Isolated incident
IMHO. If you are concerned, get an acid testing pen from
lightimpressionsdirect.com or talas.com and dot dot dot your worries away.

Maria

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Message 3
From: Louise Cass
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:35:07 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40882] Re: Japanese woodblock prints in Honolulu
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Hi Carol -thanks for the link to the Honolulu Academy - just spent an
hour viewing some of their 499 pages of Japanese prints online -what a
treat! - interesting to see that James Michener must have been a huge
collector.....
Louise Cass

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Message 4
From: carol Montgomery
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:57:46 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40883] Re: Japanese woodblock prints in Honolulu
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Hi, Louise - Thanks for pointing out the online connections - I visited the museum last week and saw some of them in person! They have rotating exhibitions in their Asian wing. It's a beautiful museum and well worth a visit! There is a James A Michener Museum in Pennsylvania devoted to modern art - he must have had a lot of influence or spent a lot of money on art. Sometimes biographies don't mention the why or how of major art collections if it is overshadowed by another media. The current exhibition is from the Richard Lane collection - I guess it overlaps the one from Michener. Carol

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Message 5
From: eli griggs
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:14:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40884] Re: acidic content in paper
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Linda, you should review which pigments you used. While a binder can affect how a pigment can perform, ie a pigment protected from the environment by an oil binder, it's important you need to know how each pigment can react to various materials, acidic or otherwise.

Eli


From: Linda Beeman
>Maria, now I am freakin' out. I've been using Kihada from the Baren Mall exclusively
>for my last several prints. I never thought about ph and acidic content. I haven't noticed
>that my prints fade out like yours did (I tend to go too light at first anyway) but I use
>watercolor - not Akua that I think you said you used. I don't know if the binder in Akua
>had a reaction with the acid that plain watercolor doesn't?

>Do I need to start worrying that my prints are going to self destruct????


> An update on the disappearing ultramarine: Eli suggested perhaps the Kihada
> paper was acidic and I tested it today. Sure enough, that's the culprit

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Message 6
From: "Sales"
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:58:11 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40885] RE: New Baren Digest (Text) V50 #5178 (Mar 20, 2010)
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Sorry about the post below - it was not intended for the Baren site. In
the crush of last minute preparation for SGC, this was meant to go
elsewhere.



Dean Clark

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Message 7
From: Constance Brewer
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:51:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 40886] Rejected Tiger
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Linden Langdon - please contact me off-list. Your tiger came limping
back from Australia for reasons the postal service stamped too faintly
for me to see.

Connie Brewer
Gillette, WY
http://peripheryarts.blogspot.com

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Subject: discovering imperfection and living with it
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