[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Wednesday, 1 July 1998 Volume 04 : Number 199 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Roger A. Ball" Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 08:01:08 -0600 Subject: [Baren 1028] Welcome Elisa Welcome to Baren, Elisa. Especially enjoyed the cut of Burroughs on your site. Some great work. I can attest to the fact that there is much to be learned here, between the Encyclopedia and archives. The banter is always interesting, too. Writing, sculpture, humor,...culture! I finally cut the villiage scene I had been working on and have one early pre-proof showing much work to be done. I should have a print up on my site sometime in the next week or so. Peace, - -Roger A. Ball ------------------------------ From: "Kessinger, Kent D" Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:34:58 -0500 Subject: [Baren 1029] My name is Kent Kessinger and I live in Houston, Texas where I am the proprietor of the River Birch Press. I am primarily a wood engraver and print my own poetry. I started making large woodblock prints in 1985, but I began engraving because I wanted to print larger editions on a Vandercook press. I have had ten one man shows in Texas. I keep feeling the need to go back to woodblocks, and I joined the group because I want to learn all I can about how to make small, multiple color woodblocks. ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 00:50:25 +0900 Subject: [Baren 1030] Various ... Welcome to the new members Elisa and Kent who popped up this week! Can you give me some information on your 'Earthmama' Elisa, so I can make an entry in the Encyclopedia Directory for you? By the way, [Baren] readership is currently 40 people. (Actually it's a bit higher, as a few 'old' members have temporarily unsubscribed while on vacation away from their computers) *** Jim has been doing some more hunting, and turned up a most interesting printmaker the other day. This gentleman is doing 'reduction' prints, using lino rather than wood, and when you see the images you may find it hard to believe that they are made with only 6 impressions. But that's what his documentation says .. http://www.priors.co.uk/tom_davidson.htm *** Jim also wrote, Re: [Baren 1000] > I'm honored to have been the thousandth. Actually Jim, I'm sorry to have to tell you ... you _weren't_ the thousandth. You see, this is the wonderful world of digital computers, and the very first posting was [Baren 0] ... *** Another 'quarter' has just ended, so I've uploaded the most recent three-month packages of archived [Baren] messages (with index) to the 'Download' page, for those who wish to update their records. I've also updated the 'stats' page. http://www.woodblock.com/download/ http://www.woodblock.com/stats/ Here is the most recent read-out of the most popular Encyclopedia pages: 1 - Printmakers on the web 2 - Contributors to the Encyclopedia 3 - 'Editor's Choice' Exhibition 4 - Basic Carving Tools (Bull) 5 - Suppliers in America (Bivins) 6 - Carving Techniques for Creating Texture (Mundie) 7 - 'Turn of the Century' Printmakers Exhibition 8 - Newbie Journal (Esposito) 9 - From the Library - The Tokuno book 10 - Traditional Keyblock Method (Bull) *** And now for me, it's back to 'Woodblock Dreams' ... Dave ------------------------------ From: julio.rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:57:25 -0600 Subject: [Baren 1031] welcome Hello to Elisa Flynn and Kent Kessinger. Welcome to Baren.......enjoy and please feel free contribute. ps. Watch out for Ray and Graham jokes............. ------------------------------ From: Gayle Wohlken Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:05:13 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1032] Re: Baren Digest V3 #198 Baren, Welcome to Elisa! I saw your work and like it. My husband was born and bred in Danbury and we go there from time to time to visit his mother and brother who live on Morgan Avenue. Your website is fun and I like how you tell all the fun stuff first before getting serious about what you do with graphic design. I did a monoprint called "Burial Mound" that reminds me of your Earth Mother print. You will like it here on the Baren. ***** To Sheryl, Ray, Dave and others: My smiley is: )8-D (bangs and a big laugh). ***** Ray, I wasn't intending sarcasm when I said > Little Graham standing below a > >giant. What a joy to behold!!! and > Dave, when are your writings to come out in a book we can hold > >in our hands? > > I thought Graham looked like an elf below that sculpture and I was delighted. And I think Dave is a good writer and I want to have a book of his writings to read more slowly with lamp- light over my shoulder and a cup of tea. Don't get me wrong, I like my Mac. I like to read books, too. **** James, I'm going to try v arnishing that last piece and I'll let you know if it does something bad to the needling. Gayle Wohlken ------------------------------ From: Ray Esposito Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:45:31 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1033] Re: Kent wrote: >My name is Kent Kessinger and I live in Houston, Texas etc. Welcome to Baren. If you have been looking in for awhile you know most of us. We look forward to hearing more from you. Cheers Ray Esposito ------------------------------ From: Ray Esposito Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:49:47 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1034] Re: welcome Julio wrote: >Hello to Elisa Flynn and Kent Kessinger. Welcome to Baren.......enjoy and >please feel free contribute. >ps. Watch out for Ray and Graham jokes............. What do you mean "watch out for Ray and Graham jokes"? I NEVER tell jokes. Woodblock is too serious a business to waste your time with silly jokes. As to Mr. Scholes, there is a word for what he passes off as "jokes". The word is.....opps, excuse me, I have to answer the phone. Ray Esposito ------------------------------ From: Ray Esposito Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 12:54:11 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1035] Re: Various ... Dave wrote: >Here is the most recent read-out of the most popular Encyclopedia pages: Holy Mackerel (that's a Canadian saying - here in Florida in Holy Sea Cow): I am almost out of the top ten. I have got to get busy hitting that repeat butten a couple hundred times. 8-)>>>> Ray Esposito ------------------------------ From: Gary Luedtke Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:54:13 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1036] Various ... I don't drop off much in the way of conversation at this site, though I read all the contributions. So as we seem to have picked up a few new members, my cordial welcome goes out, to Kent and Elisa, and any others I may have missed. There's a wealth of information here that Dave has accumulated and organized which I'm sure has caught your eye already. The light repartee needs polish, however. Graham and Ray, put on your smiley masks and draw your swords! En Garde! (Well, let's just say these gentlement draw their swords with a pencil.) Or, as Graham's by-line would have it, an old artist doesn't retire, he just "draws" his pension. Gary ------------------------------ From: Ray Esposito Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:01:22 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1037] Re: Various ... Gary wrote: > The light repartee needs polish, however. Graham and Ray, put on your >smiley masks and draw your swords! Hah - so it's war you want. Graham, we need to straighten this guy out. I think he's spending far too time in the Kansas wheatfields. (And you KNOW what goes on in those wheatfields) :-)>>> Cheers Ray Esposito ------------------------------ From: Gary Luedtke Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:46:25 -0400 Subject: [Baren 1038] Re: Various ... Ray, What is it that goes on in these wheatfields? I'm in the land of twisters, floodwaters, bar-b-que sauce, casinos in moats, and high culture! I haven't seen any wheatfields. I guess I'll have to get out a little farther into the country. Still blazing hot down in your parts? (I mean that geographically, not personally.) Gary --)======- ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V4 #199 ***************************