Today's postings
- [Baren 45094] Re: Baren Digest (old) V58 #5892 (Murilo Pereira)
- [Baren 45095] Re: New member (Gretchen Greene)
- [Baren 45096] Re: New member (jujujan # verizon.net)
- [Baren 45097] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: Murilo Pereira
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:36:25 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45094] Re: Baren Digest (old) V58 #5892
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what lovely carving tools
Message 2
From: Gretchen Greene
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:58:01 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45095] Re: New member
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Welcome Greg.
I'm in Cambridge, MA.
The museum of printing in North Andover, MA has a father's day event that sounds interesting. In past years they have used a steamroller to make big collaborative linoleum prints. They told me to look on their website in April.
Gretchen
I'm in Cambridge, MA.
The museum of printing in North Andover, MA has a father's day event that sounds interesting. In past years they have used a steamroller to make big collaborative linoleum prints. They told me to look on their website in April.
Gretchen
Message 3
From: jujujan # verizon.net
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:16:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45096] Re: New member
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Hi, I lurk a lot, although I have just sent all my dragons in the mail....my first Baren related swap. I live in North Reading and had no idea there was a museum of printing in Andover, the next town north. I'll have to find it and check it out. Thanks for posting about it.Janis On 02/06/12, Gretchen Greene<ggreene_1999@yahoo.com> wrote: Welcome Greg. I'm in Cambridge, MA.The museum of printing in North Andover, MA has a father's day event that sounds interesting. In past years they have used a steamroller to make big collaborative linoleum prints. They told me to look on their website in April.Gretchen ________________________________________On Feb 5, 2012, at 5:09 PM, <greg.bentz@gfbentz.com> wrote: Hi I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Greg, I live in Saugus Mass. (just north of Boston) and I am just beginning to start in printmaking.I am an art school dropout, spent thirty years in the commercial printing bidness (offset) as a prepress tech. I have been doing custom woodcarving for the past couple of years and am looking to take a new direction in an artform I have always been interested in. Being a woodcarver, i thought, how hard can it be? Boy was I wrong. I am still chosing subjects that are too complex for my skills, and have made a few interesting doorstops.Before asking questions, I will need a few weeks reading the extensive archives. If anyone knows any groups etc. my area that may be of interest to me please dont hesitate to drop me an email. Greg Bentz
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Subject: The Religiosity of George
Posted by: Annie B
 For this next print, I'm focusing on the front of the dollar bill rather than the back and doing an enlargement of the most recognizable portion of the bill: the portrait of George Washington. George Washington has been mythologized through the centuries, and in fact was the stuff of legends even during his lifetime. That story about George admitting to chopping down his father's cherry tree, saying "I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet"? It's fiction, promulgated in a book by Parson Weems called The Life of Washington that was published just one year after Washington's death. In the same book Weems also invented a story about an eyewitness who discovered Washington deep in prayer in a bower at Valley Forge. Although Christians today like to hold Washington up as a devout and fervent evangelical, using his Christianity to support the idea that America is a "Christian nation," the truth is a bit more complicated. In the book Founding Faith, author Steven Waldman's research on the religious habits of Washington tells us that Washington was a practicing Anglican who, according to his diaries, attended church an average of once a month. He never knelt and he rarely if ever took communion, instead leaving the service before the sacrament began and later avoiding services altogether on communion Sundays. In his writings Washington rarely referred to Jesus Christ or . . . [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
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Subject: City Puzzle Block - at last!
Posted by: Ellen Shipley
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Mea culpa. I'm chronically late, as usual. But here it is: my contribution to the City Puzzle Block. What is more ubiquitous than a pigeon on a balcony railing?   As soon as I figure out why my scanner is on a work stopage, I'll scan it in for a faux print. Then it will be winging its way to Maria Arango and the City of the World project. PUZZLE PROJECT #3: CITY OF THE WORLD http://www.1000woodcuts.com/projects/cityoftheworld/index.html MCPP Puzzle Prints http://puzzleprints.blogspot.com/  |
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Subject: Participant Update
Posted by: Maria
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New page on the website to help everyone (especially me, let's just be honest!): http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/cityoftheworld/citizens.html From that page you can check: -If I received your block -If I received your information -Quick link to send your information Thank you everyone! Keep working, we're almost there...  |
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