Today's postings

  1. [Baren 44984] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) V58 #5867 (Jan 11, 2012) (Ruth Egnater)
  2. [Baren 44985] Lynita Shimizu on McClain's ("Orgren Alex C (Alex)")
  3. [Baren 44986] Congratulations to Lynita (Bea Gold)
  4. [Baren 44987] Re: Congratulations to Lynita (key sevn)
  5. [Baren 44988] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Ruth Egnater
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:33:20 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44984] Re: New Baren Digest (Text) V58 #5867 (Jan 11, 2012)
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Pinto, I used to work in the bush 30 miles north of Wawa in NORTHERN ONTARIO teaching survival, white water canoeing, etc.. Some of my fondest memories come from those summers. We even canoed into Hudson Bay but there was no art gallery there in the 70's. Many of the lakes we canoed through and portaged to the next were fly in only access(and canoe) and despite the fickle weather , it was always beautiful. I was just curious about where you are from and if your prints are representing that area. Ahhhhh, the old days, when my back could tolerate a 5 mile portage. Thanks for the info on the trees. Ruth Egnater
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Message 2
From: "Orgren Alex C (Alex)"
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:16:00 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44985] Lynita Shimizu on McClain's
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Did anyone else notice that Lynita Shimizu is the new Featured Artist on the
McClain's web page? It seems likely she'll be on the cover of their 2012
print catalog, too.



Congratulations!
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Message 3
From: Bea Gold
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:23:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44986] Congratulations to Lynita
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Congratulations to Lynita
Lynitas'work is. Beautiful. Bea Gold

Bea -
Sent from my iPhone
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Message 4
From: key sevn
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:03:15 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44987] Re: Congratulations to Lynita
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cool!
the print is great.

Bea Gold wrote:

> Congratulations to Lynita
> Lynitas'work is. Beautiful. Bea Gold
>
> Bea -
> Sent from my iPhone
>

Digest Appendix

Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...

Subject: The Power of Image
Posted by: Annie B

We in America like to think of ourselves as visually literate. We like to think that we're wise to the ubiquity of advertising in our environment, that we can spot a doctored photograph in a magazine, that we can "read" and interpret the hundreds (or thousands) of images that we see every day. I've spent the past 25 years as an artist, making images for commercial clients, and I'm not so sure we're as literate as we think we are.

For starters, we spend only a few seconds viewing most of the images we see in the course of a day. (We commercial artists have a joke that the thing we're working on, whatever it is, will be lining the bottom of someone's bird cage in a day or two.) You can't "read" an image in a few seconds any more than you can read a page of text in a few seconds. To read and interpret an image, one needs to observe the composition, the colors, the focal points, the lighting. One needs to consider context, historical setting, the medium used to make the image, and style. And then it's important to examine one's own emotional and intellectual response to help make the meaning. All of this takes time and attention and intention.

I've been conducting a small experiment among my friends and family, asking them to draw the back of a dollar bill from memory. None of my respondents, myself included, could do it. Yet this . . .
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Subject: Well, THIS is better...
Posted by: Sherrie Y

Happiness is a drying rack of new prints-in-progress.

We're still feeling a bit sub-par here in the Heart of the Rockies, but both the DM and I have gone enough stir crazy to send us back to our respective studios, coughing and sneezing be damned. David's working madly on a new CD, and I have finally started some new relief prints.

Last weekend I mounted two largeish blocks, one 12 x 18 and the other 12 x 16, for some ambitious linocuts. I'm still waiting on the arrival of new paper, however, so although I'm twitchy to get one of them underway I'm stalled for at least another week. And sorry... I debated posting a photo of the drawn-up 12 x 18 block but I've decided I'd rather have it be a surprise. You'll just have to wait.


In the meantime, I drew up a smaller block... revisiting an image I tried last year but didn't feel was successful. The first two colors didn't require any carving, so this morning I tore down paper and got to work. Both the blue and the tiny spot of violet were put down using stencils and went quickly. I'm printing on the "natural" color . . .
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