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Message 1
From: Tibi Chelcea
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:57:33 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41013] Washing felt blankets
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Hi,

The felt blankets for my small press are starting to resemble a color field
painting with a sprinkle of hard-edge painting too -- it's kinda
interesting, but thought it might be time to wash them nevertheless. Is it a
good idea to just put them in the washer, or should I take some special care
of them? What's the experience of other people with washing press blankets?

Thanks,
Tibi

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Message 2
From: Shireen Holman
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:06:24 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41014] Re: Silent Members
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Hello all,

I'm still reading email, too, but haven't been contributing. I've also
missed the past two Chinese New Year's exchanges, which I regret, but
I've been really busy. In addition to income-producing jobs, I'm
working on a long-term project - an artist's book about time. I've
made all the paper for the book, including part of the imagery as pulp
paintings. Now I've been carving and printing woodcuts on the paper.
I'm a little over half-way done, so I think I can see light at the end
of the tunnel. It's fun to work on.

Shireen

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Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:10:22 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41015] Re: Washing felt blankets
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Take them to the dry cleaner...much easier and safer, they are too expensive to damage.
If you really want to do it yourself and if they are wool you need to wash them by HAND and lay flat to dry. If you hand them up they will stretch to funny shapes..
If you put them in the washer the warm water and agitation of the machine will distort and shrink them beyond belief.
I know this from hideous personal experience years ago.
My best
Barbara

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Message 4
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:26:22 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41016] Picasso, Baren blog?
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Carol I have that book on Picasso and read it cover to cover, love
it. I really enjoyed seeing this group of prints, thanks for sharing,
Melissa. When I was studying painting in college I had this professor
who said we were going to do cubism. He said draw an image cut it up,
put it back together and paint it. If we wanted to know more about
cubism it was up to us. I thought, how strange, his directions made
no sense to me. I went to the library and read all I could find on
cubism and fell in love with the work Picasso created. I did not cut
up a drawing and paint it I did cubism and astonished this professor.
At least he taught me to seek the knowledge to do it right.

I wanted to put something on the baren blog and don't have the login.
How do I post to the blog?

Busy carving.

Yes, are we going to have another summit? They are great for putting
names and faces together.

Marilynn

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Message 5
From: Lynn Starun
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:33:54 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41017] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V51 #5204 (Apr 10, 2010)
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Hi All,I'm another here-but-mostly-silent one! I've gotten so much from this group
and will be eternally grateful for this sharing group. I read the posts in batches.
I go through a week or so of intense work and then read to catch up using a mail search.
I got involved in a very active Book Artists group and have a lot of deadlines. I wanted to
sign up for the maps exchange but the size and not knowing the number made me hesitate. The white
line technique is something I've wanted to try and it's fun to see other's experiments. Viza, I like
that the white line is not dominant in your horse. I live near NYC and will have to check the Picasso
prints out along with the Morgan's "Hours of Catherine of Cleves"--it'll be a long day!!
Lynn Allison Starun
www.lynnallisonstarun.com.http://lynnallisonstarun.blogspot.com/

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Message 6
From: "Harry French"
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:09:10 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41018] Latest print
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Bareners,

I noticed that on the last forum my hyperlink title to my latest print was
too long and does not work.

I'll try a shorter one :

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/WYVERN.htm


Cheers

Harry

UK

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Message 7
From: Raymond Hudson
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:58:46 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41019] Baren: Harry French's latest
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Harry,
Just a note to say that I find your various mythological creatures
very much alive and very invigorating! Terrific images!

Ray Hudson
Middlebury, VT

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Message 8
From: Viza Arlington
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:21:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41020] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V51 #5204 (Apr 10, 2010)
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Thanks Lynn,
It is only possible because i paint the first block first let it dry then
spray mist the block reconstituting the watercolor then print the whole
block. If I used the traditional methods there would have to be more white
line because the watercolor dries so fast.
Viza

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Message 9
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:12:43 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41021] Re: Silent Members
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Hi Shireen,

That book sounds really interesting. Any pictures of the process?

Barbara - thanx for the warning about washing blankets!

Harry - love the wyvern. I love all your medieval blocks and am jealous you get to go to the source!

Viza - how do you mist the block, with a squirt bottle? Do you saturate it? Do you get droplets? I'm glad it works but I'd be afraid to try it.

Ellen Shipley

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Message 10
From: l k
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:02:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41022] Re: white line printing day 2
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Wow...a time saver!
Your print looks great!
Got to see if the reconstituting will work for me...
nice going, Viza!
Linda
lindakelen-artings.blogspot

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Message 11
From: Viza Arlington
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:34:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41023] Re: Silent Members
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Ellen,
I use a little squirt bottle that has a pretty fine mist. I do get
some droplets. I try not to saturate the block so much that the
watercolor starts to run or get into the lines but i do give it a
pretty good misting and if it looks too watery i wait just a second
until it dries up a bit. I think having damp paper helps to keep it
from sticking. I say do some experiments on some of your old blocks
it's fun. You have lots of images that would be perfect for white line
printing!
viza

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Ellen Shipley
wrote:
> Hi Shireen,
>
> That book sounds really interesting.  Any pictures of the process?
>
> Barbara - thanx for the warning about washing blankets!
>
> Harry - love the wyvern.  I love all your medieval blocks and am jealous you
> get to go to the source!
>
> Viza - how do you mist the block, with a squirt bottle?  Do you saturate
> it?  Do you get droplets?  I'm glad it works but I'd be afraid to try it.
>
> Ellen Shipley
>
>
>

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Message 12
From: Viza Arlington
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:36:21 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41024] Re: white line printing day 2
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Thanks Linda,
I saw your post and blog that inspired me so thank you!
Viza

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