[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Monday, 6 September 1999 Volume 08 : Number 692 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wanda Robertson Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:37:28 -0700 Subject: [Baren 5635] Re:transfer I've been experimenting with different ways to transfer my drawing onto my wood blocks. Cover your eyes, Graham! I've been using my computer to reverse my drawing and to place the kento marks. This does 2 things for me. If the drawing & kento marks fit onto an 8 x 10 or 8 x 14 inch paper, it saves me a 12 mile round trip to a copy machine. Plus, by fiddling around, I have discovered that an ink jet copy glued onto a shina woodblock (with a thin coat of 1/2 Elmers glue 1/2 water) not only works well with the paper rubbed down on the back for carving, but actually will leave ink residue on the block (After cutting the block) after the paper is washed away! This will work well for small graduated color areas like Greg Robinson used on the lantern in his Exchange #2 print. I am in the midst of figuring out what colors to use on another flower print. Graham, I used one sheet of the *good* paper yesterday. Oh my gosh, how am I ever going to be able to stay with the medium or low priced stuff now? It truly is like comparing silk to burlap! Clear, sharp deliniations, on the money registration (I didn't know I was doing *so* well) bright, clear, zingy colors. Wow! Back to the studio! Hope to have some results to put up later this week for all of you to see. Perhaps you would like to see my (not-so-successful experiments as well?) Have a safe and happy Holiday in the states, and a safe & happy weekend wherever you happen to be! Wanda ------------------------------ From: Bella1yopp@aol.com Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:36:10 EDT Subject: [Baren 5636] Re:transfer John I am very familiar with wintergreen transfers. It is less toxic than xerox inking, since the oil based ink and any cleaner is eliminated. It can be hard to find in this area because most pharmacies do not carry it here. Maybe all the printmaking students are buying them out. I like the wintergreen transfer but just like anything you need a particular "touch" and with wintergreen I don't have that touch... Maybe I get impatient waiting for it to loosen the toners. Both are great processes. - -Amanda ------------------------------ From: arafat alnaim Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 5637] Re: ART TRIENNALE Hello John, The provided information is received from The Information Center in The Union of Bulgarian Artists. I don't have any experience with the Egyptian triennial but some friends of main has participated in. There impression was that the catalogue of the triennial is not designed and printed well. Arafat Al-Naim ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:28:36 -0700 Subject: [Baren 5638] Re:transfer >Cover your eyes, Graham! I've been using my computer to reverse my >drawing and to place the kento marks. This does 2 things for me. If the >drawing & kento marks fit onto an 8 x 10 or 8 x 14 inch paper, it saves >me a 12 mile round trip to a copy machine. The use of a computer for the techy stuff and the simplification of getting mechanical applications to save time and in your case a 12 mile round trip is smart. Just don't tell me you are designing for you woodblock images on the computer.......)<:( Regards, Granddad Graham ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:39:18 -0700 Subject: [Baren 5639] Look at Dawson Exhibition A page showing the space and exhibition at Dawson Creek. http://www.members.home.net/gscholes/Dawson.html Will there I nipped across to Alberta and did some cross board shopping.....less taxes there. This new digital camera is a beaut......Nikon 950..... Graham ------------------------------ From: viscult@mich1.telmex.net.mx Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 20:20:10 -0500 Subject: [Baren 5642] Re: On Biennals Arafat: Thanks for your information, although let's have in mind about what John warnes us. Anyway, I have a question, Does the Majdanek 2000 have any awards? and also, Do you have the application for the Egyptian Triennial?, if so, I would aaprecciate if you please pass it to the interested ones (include myself). On the other hand, I just sent some of my works to the Uzice (Poland) Drypoint and to the Novosibirsk (Russia)Print Biennal, and was selected in both, with no problems at all with the postal service. ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger" Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:57:26 +0900 Subject: [Baren 5644] Hello Bareners, April and John arrived safely in California. We enjoyed their company at my house yesterday evening. About 15 California printmakers crowded into my living room to look at April's beautiful prints. We got to see some of theirs also. A portfolio party is great fun if you like to look at art and talk about art. The crowd was grabbing for April's prints--they are so beautiful. They were somewhat overwhelmed when I passed the 60 prints from the Baren exchanges around the room! This was another great meeting for me, thanks to the wonders of the internet. I have uploaded a rather large video (3 mg. avi file) to my web site, so you can enjoy a little movement along with your art. It shows me (in flowered shirt), April (in black shirt) and hanga teacher Katherine McKay (in striped shirt). It also features my large flying horse print on my living room wall. It's at: http://users.lanminds.com/~jeaneger/jean/ Then click on april.avi It seems to work best with Internet Explorer which calls up Windows Media Player to play the .avi file. Jean Eger ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:27:25 +0900 Subject: [Baren 5645] 'Fixing' prints Had a bit of an experience with printing this afternoon ... that might be of curious interest ... I was pulling out back numbers of my poets' prints, getting them ready for this month's scheduled shipping, and noticed that one of the colours on one particular print was really poorly printed. It was a print I made more than five years ago, and obviously hadn't used enough pigment when doing that colour - it was pale and 'washed out'. There were a dozen copies of that print in the drawer, and all were the same; not something I wanted to send out to the waiting collectors. But the rest of the colours seemed OK, so I though I'd have a go at 'fixing' the bad area. I dug the old blocks out of the closet, made the paper moist, and then tried a test with one of them. It worked just fine, as the wood wasn't warped, and the registration still matched perfectly. I ran through the batch, dried them off, then added them to the stack of prints going out this month. No big deal I guess, but it certainly seems a bit strange to think about those prints now - key block and most of the colours printed five years ago ... but the final colour printed only just now! I've read before about how forgers sometimes 're-touch' famous old ukiyo-e prints by cutting new blocks for them, and I guess I see how it would be possible ... Dave P.S. ... a reminder that the draw for the 'Silly Season' print is tomorrow morning! ------------------------------ From: John Ryrie Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 21:02:19 +1000 Subject: [Baren 5646] Re: ART TRIENNALE I don't know about the catalog for the Egyptian exhibition as my work never got there. I should say that this was in the 80's sometime and the post may have improved since then. In 1997 I had a print in the Fourth Bhaven International Biennial of prints. This should be on again this year. They had a really good catalog with 240 reproductions of prints from all over the world it was free to participants. I haven't any information about the next one but it is worth looking into. John Ryrie Hear is the Postal address Roopankar Museum of Arts, J. Swaminathan Marg, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. PIN-462 002 (M.P.) 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