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Baren Digest               Monday, 16 March 1998       Volume 02 : Number 097

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 08:41:35 -0800
Subject: [Baren 485] Re: How did you _do_ that? 

I don't know how April does it but I have handled 22 x 28 inch jobs
You use a stiffer piece of paper in conjuction with the damp hosho when
registering.
Lay both together, register, and drop on the plate.

Graham

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From: Graham Scholes <gscholes@islandnet.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 08:58:02 -0800
Subject: [Baren 486] Re: How did you _do_ that? 

OK I'll bite Dave,
What's on the...and which...small print.
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>I've been very much enjoying the images on your web site (note to
>everybody: if you haven't already - then go and see these prints!), and
>I noticed something in the 'small print' that was quite interesting.
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April,
I enjoyed you wood cut images.  Wonder design and use of colours.
Very interesting subjects.  Keep up the good work.

May I ask why you have so many Photoshop images. Interesting but no
comparison with woodcut and the difficulties experiences in doing them.
You will gather from this statement I don't hold digitized images in the
same league as woodcuts.  More of a commerical medium.  Yes I know I'm from
the old school.

Graham

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From: April Vollmer & John Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:21:52 -0400
Subject: [Baren 487] Re: Large Prints 

Yes, indeed, it is a real stretch to print 36 inches of washi! It is
gratifying to hear someone say they're impressed! None of my painter
friends thinks about it particularly!

The most important thing is to have good heavy weight washi....#42, kizuki
hanga, and dampen it just the right amount, overnight under blotters. I
handle it the same way as paper for smaller prints...right hand holding the
kento corner, and left hand in a scissors grip, about two thirds of the way
along the paper....first the right thumb puts that corner into the corner
kento, then the left thumb reaches for the straight line kento. Like all
hanga printing, the most important thing is to keep moisture even in the
paper and on the block....and everything does start to dry out, so you have
to move fast!

One handy trick for printing large is to print in sections, if the color
areas are far enough apart, it's much easier to print smaller areas one at
a time. For example in the yellow area, I printed the lower bunch of
flowers in a separate sequence because the pigment there dried out too
fast....

I have heard of using a stiffer piece of paper behind the printing paper as
Grahm suggests....might be necessary if a thinner paper is being used.

Glad so many of you are enjoying my web site! As for the Photoshop images
there, no, I don't think they're really art: but my web page doubles as a
family album! Please excuse the silly kid pix--I'm learning Photoshop and
entertaining my far flung family at the same time. My dear brother put up
the website for me, and those are his kids!

April Vollmer
http://www.ulster.net/~vollmerf/april/


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