Today's postings
- [Baren 45438] Re: relief for relief (ArtfulCarol # aol.com)
- [Baren 45439] Re: Fame for 15 minutes (ArtfulCarol # aol.com)
- [Baren 45440] Re: relief for relief (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 45441] thanks (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 45442] Re: thanks (Louise Cass)
- [Baren 45443] Shin Jidai. Contemporary Japanese Books and Paper Art. (key sevn)
- [Baren 45444] Re: Inspired by Japan: exhibition in Johannesburg (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 45445] Relief for relief (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 45446] Making pigment from powder (Peter Brown)
- [Baren 45447] Re: Making pigment from powder (Mike Lyon)
- [Baren 45448] Re: Making pigment from powder (mary caulfield)
- [Baren 45449] Re: Making pigment from powder (Mike Lyon)
- [Baren 45450] Re: Making pigment from powder (Graham Scholes)
- [Baren 45451] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 14:38:33 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45438] Re: relief for relief
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$20 extra. This was mailed to you twice with the buyers' checks made out to
the Red Cross with the note for Japan Tsunami Relief.on each of their
checks.
Do I have to go all through my records again? Hope not. I have the
buyers' names and what they bought.
Please do keep a set until I hear from the Castle hotel and restaurant
about whether they are interested in the idea I presented about the Japan
prints last week. The idea was to use some of the Baren prints in the
renovation of the hotel, now under Japanese ownership; If that happens the
details would be worked out.
I will wait about 3 weeks and if I don't get any word from the manager I
will call him.
I am also committed and working on other plans right now.
Best to you
Carol
Message 2
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 14:55:14 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45439] Re: Fame for 15 minutes
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>Friends,
>My 15 minutes of fame is here...I have been chosen to show my work in the
>Oregon Governors office from May 4-July18, 2012
>This is a huge honor and I am sorry they did not mention my gallery in
>their press release..I will try to fix that! ha It just goes to show that if
>you live long enough your 15 minutes might happen in your lifetime! This
>was a collaboration between myself, a poet and a bookbinder...all three of us
>did huge amounts of work...we set the edition at 50 and regret it...I
>think we have 20 completed and it has taken nearly a year....
>Not woodblock, but still printmaking, the book is 10x7 inches and in a
>clamshell case. Yale bought one...I think we have sold 6 so not exactly
>setting the world on fire, but you never know.
>http://www.barbara-mason.com/recent-work/
>
>My best to you all
>Barbara
Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:55:51 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45440] Re: relief for relief
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Barbara
Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:08:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45441] thanks
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She reads them beautifully and had I heard her read them I might have been too intimidated to do the images! ha
http://www.paulann.net/index.php
My best
Barbara
Message 5
From: Louise Cass
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:45:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45442] Re: thanks
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Louise
www.LCassArt.com
Message 6
From: key sevn
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 18:58:58 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45443] Shin Jidai. Contemporary Japanese Books and Paper Art.
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may 19 - july 15
2012
anybody is coming?
I can't
:((((
details here:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-17XakTu27y8/T43GiTy6TFI/AAAAAAAACHg/70gbpjwpJCM/s1600/MCBA+Shin+Jidai+invite+jpg+copy.jpg
Message 7
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 19:59:01 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45444] Re: Inspired by Japan: exhibition in Johannesburg
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Did you sell additional prints? I want to put on the website the number we sold...thanks
Barbara
Message 8
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:06:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45445] Relief for relief
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Fabulous! and donated $5700 to the Red Cross in South Africa for Tsunami relief victims.
I will get this info posted really soon, I think totally we raised over $12000 for relief, maybe more, so congratulations printmakers....our efforts helped! And will continue to do so as I am sending work to the UK for a fundraiser there. Every so often we sell one on the website.
My best
Barbara
Message 9
From: Peter Brown
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:51:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45446] Making pigment from powder
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I am interested in mixing my own pigments from dry powder for woodblock
printing. I have read recipes and instructions for making watercolours,
which include the use of gum arabic, oxgal and some form of sugar. Are
these three ingredients necessary when the pigment is to be used for
woodblock printing? I have also read David Bull's method, which is quite
different. I would be interested to know from anyone who makes their own
pigments specifically from a powder with the intention of printing from a
woodblock, what their ingredient list and method is.
Kind regards,
Peter Brown.
Message 10
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:19:27 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45447] Re: Making pigment from powder
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health hazard if you breathe the dust -- wear a mask)...
I've had excellent results in MANY print editions simply mixing dry pigment
directly into rice paste and printing (Japanese technique -- brushing
pigment into dampened block surface and printing by hand with baren).
I cook up as much rice paste (mixing dry rice starch with water and
stirring over a double boiler until it's properly done and thickened -- a
few minutes) as I need, then use a spoon to tip the 'right' amount of
pigment into the paste and mix with a small brush -- let sit for a few
minutes and stir again and it's good to go. I've used this method with
around a dozen different pigments and all worked very well with excellent
distribution of pigment throughout the mixture -- I think the very viscous
paste makes it MUCH easier to get a good mixture of pigments (many pigments
do NOT like to mix into plain water but mix well into paste).
Anyway, no need to make it any more difficult than that, in my opinion --
it works, it's easy, the color is quite fast after printing -- works great!
But... I currently prefer pigment suspensions (Daniel Smith, Guerra Paint
and Pigment, etc) to dry pigment because there's no dust hazard and...
Once you spill a teaspoon of dry pigment and start sweeping and your
entire studio turns Prussian Blue... Well, suspensions are much easier to
clean up! :-)
-- Mike
--
Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com
Message 11
From: mary caulfield
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:46:38 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45448] Re: Making pigment from powder
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How do you store your rice pigment paints or is it a one time use product?
Message 12
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:12:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45449] Re: Making pigment from powder
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its easy to make more...
Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com
Sent from my iPhone
On May 14, 2012, at 4:46 PM, mary caulfield
wrote:
Hi Mike,
How do you store your rice pigment paints or is it a one time use product?
Message 13
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:25:56 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45450] Re: Making pigment from powder
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You will know when you should not use it any more....
the tell tale sign is the green fuzz on the top.
AKA mould.
Graham
On an Island in the Pacific.
www.woodblockart.ca
http://www.woodblockart.ca/how-to/
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Digest Appendix
Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...
Subject: Arts of Japan series : print #2 - image concept
Posted by: Dave Bull
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It's time to begin work on the second print in the Arts of Japan series, even though we're far from 'finishing' the first one. I have yet to print the second batch of 100 or so of that one (although there were enough in the first batch to supply all the current collectors, so there's no panic on that), and there is still plenty of case construction work waiting for me in the woodshop ... The theme for this next one has been decided, and will be sculpture - in particular 'monumental' sculpture. Given that fact, it shouldn't be too difficult for you to make a pretty good guess about what the image might look like! There are many possible such sculptures scattered all over the country, but I have selected a particular one that is situated not too far from here, and the reason is that ... I think that rather than reproduce an old print of this object, I'd like to have a go at creating a new one. Yes - does that strike fear into the hearts of the collectors? Dave is going to include originals in this series! For the curious, here's a Google search of images of the object in question ...  |
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Subject: Talking About Money
Posted by: Annie B
 My mother taught me that there are four things you shouldn't talk about: money, religion, sex and politics. I've hit all those taboos at one time or another, on this blog and in my work. Lately, since I started working on the Loaded series, the big topic has been money. My proposal for the A.P.E. Gallery show that opened last week was to show my large prints and also to print some money the night of the reception. I decided that in addition to printing the money I also wanted to talk with people about how much was reasonable to charge for a 17-note packet of printed currency. I wrote up a list of all the money I had spent out of pocket ($678.23) and how many hours I had spent (98) to produce a total of 60 packets of money and asked for people's opinions. Here are some sample responses. On this blog, a commenter named Curt gave me a formula to use that even included the gallery's 25% take: If you want to make an hourly rate R and assume you'll sell all of the bundles in a short amount of time, then the math is simple for determining the price P: costs = expenses, i.e.I thought $20/hr was more than reasonable, but that would mean charging almost $60 per packet. My original thought had been that the packets should cost closer to $1 per note, more like $20 or $25 per packet, so this was disappointing.
My Facebook friends had varying opinions. Several said $60 to $100 was reasonable for art. Everyone agreed that it was practically impossible to determine how much a hypothetical buyer would be willing to pay. Back on this blog, Tibi noted the educational value of revealing the artist's costs. I definitely had that as one of my goals. Diana suggested a sort of sliding scale. I liked that idea, so I decided to use that at the gallery on Friday night.
This item is taken from the blog woodblock dreams. Subject: Yoshida sailing ship - test printing begins
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