[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Monday, 29 March 1999 Volume 06 : Number 506 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Hideshi Yoshida Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:16:06 +0900 Subject: [Baren 3754] catalogue Dear jeanne, You asked me: >Are there catalogs available about the art show? If so, could you print out >the address and I would love to have one and share the art work with you. I don't know if you can order it directly or not but if you would like to have the catalog, I can buy it instead of you. After that I will send it to you, of course you will have to pay for it . Hideshi ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger" Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:31:03 -0800 Subject: [Baren 3755] Re: Baren Digest V6 #505 Graham, You could try the following with the rice paste. Mix the rice flour with COLD water, to the consistency of heavy cream. Then pour in the required amount of BOILING WATER ALL AT ONCE. It will be translucent and smooth. Continue to cook in double boiler until it's how you want it. I add oil of cloves and it won't mold if it sits in the frig for six months. Smells good too. I would like it if you would tell me the correct amount of rice flour and boiling water AGAIN! I think the method works for regular flour too. Jean Eger http://users.lanminds.com/~jeaneger ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:09:36 -0800 Subject: [Baren 3756] paste Jean, >You could try the following with the rice paste. Mix the rice flour with >COLD water, to the consistency of heavy cream. Then pour in the required >amount of BOILING WATER ALL AT ONCE. It will be translucent and smooth. That is what I did. for both rice and wheat. >Continue to cook in double boiler until it's how you want it. Do this in your microwave but you shouldn't have to if your water is boiling and your not mixing more than a teaspoon full. ------------------------------ From: Shireen Holman Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:17:25 -0500 Subject: [Baren 3757] Re: artist books Michael wrote: Thanks for the time you spent visiting my page. >I also visited your site, and I am truely fond of your books, from the >description and the pictures I think I can imagine the haptic quality and >the sensitivity they carry. Could you tell me something more about your books? Thanks for describing your methods of printing. I'm a little afraid to describe how I make my books because I use oil based inks and an etching press, which is the wrong subject. But here goes ... For 'Stream of Life', I first made all the paper. I used linen and abaca pulp for the base sheets, and made sheets in four different shapes for the differently shaped pages. (I had first cut the deckles for the moulds into those shapes.) Then, while the pulp was still wet I pulp-painted part of the imagery onto the base sheets using coloured cotton pulp. This way, once the paper had formed, part of my imagery was part of the paper itself. I had to do the pulp painting on both sides of the sheets before drying because, since the prints were bound into a book, I wanted images on both sides of the paper. After the paper had dried, I printed two blocks onto each side, each in a different colour. The text was printed for me by a letterpress artist, Gordon Fluke. For my other book on my web site, 'Memories of My Father', I made the paper for the covers of the books and then printed woodcuts onto those sheets. The prints inside the main book and inside the small books are screenprints, using about 6-8 colours each, and using water based screenprinting inks. Shireen *********************************************** Shireen Holman, Printmaker and Book Artist email: tholman@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/tholman/shireen/index.htm *********************************************** ------------------------------ From: Mariten@aol.com Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:56:59 EST Subject: [Baren 3758] Re: Website and paper Forgot not everyone frequents the Bar-baren! My website is up at: www.mariarango.com I love feedback, good or bad, so let it rip. I have been looking and looking in catalogs trying to find a good Japanese paper that comes in colors. I recently received a catalog from Flax (in SF, CA) that shows many dyed and otherwise colored papers from India, etc. My question is, does anyone in Baren have experience with colored papers in woodblock? Thanks and health to all, Maria in 82-degree Las Vegas ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:53:51 +0900 Subject: [Baren 3759] Maria's prints ... Maria wrote: > My website is up at: http://www.mariarango.com Maria, Interesting how very different these prints are from what I expected to see based on your previous postings ... I especially enjoyed your print at: http://www.mariarango.com/woodguy1.jpg I'd like to hear how you made this. (I've also put you on the Encyclopedia 'Printmakers on the Web' page, but I'd like more info from you to fill in the missing details.) http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/017_01/017_01_frame.html *** Shireen wrote: > I'm a little afraid to describe how I make my books ... Considering how many people on [Baren] have expressed their 'craziness' about books and book arts, I wouldn't worry about this! It seems like quite a complex, but very interesting, process. Interesting to see you refer to Mr. Tom Galt on your web pages. His translation of the Hyakunin Isshu poetry was something that I used constantly through the course of my ten year project ... I wrote to his publisher to see if I could get permission to reprint his book (which has been long out of print), but they never bothered to reply ... *** I got a call from the woman who produced that documentary on my work earlier this year ... it seems that the program has received a 'Best Documentary' award. This is nothing that _I_ should brag about, as it is an internal TV industry award, being given to the people who _made_ the program. But it's nice to hear, and perhaps it means the program will get more repeat broadcasts ... Oscars here we come ... not! Dave ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V6 #506 ***************************