[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Thursday, 28 October 1999 Volume 09 : Number 760 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ruth Leaf Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:09:49 -0700 Subject: [Baren 6428] Re: Baren Digest V9 #758 Maria, Torinoko is a very smooth white paper that takes detail very well. It is however very white. The handmade torinoko is very expensive but the machine made, also archival, is about $2.00 a sheet. - -- http://www.ruthleaf.com ------------------------------ From: Bella1yopp@aol.com Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:45:50 EDT Subject: [Baren 6429] Re: sunday artist > It would have been helpful to > me to understand the levels of being an artist, from Sunday painter to > professional. Perhaps that would be a worthy research project to undertake > as an adjunct to teaching high school. Does anyone know of a good book on > the subject? I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for but I've recently started reading a book called Taking the Leap, The Insider's Guide to Exhibiting and Selling Your Art by Cay Lang. It is so far a good read. Even in the intro she hits at the heart of many issues. I have the attention span of about 15 minutes. Which is stretching it. This book has kept my attention for even longer. What made a friend of mine get it (and in turn I got hooked) is she was reading one section of it at the bookstore. Basically the author's teacher in college was asked how do you are really an artist and the teacher responded "An artist can't stop himself. He really has no choice about it." Lang suffered over this because this was a battle with in herself. She wasn't always happy to be in the studio and procrastinated. But after giving herself a hard time about not spending enough time in the studio(which she did often) she realized that he was talking about obsession, she was suffering because she had no choice. But she did have a choice "to be an artist who worked or one who didn't" Her words were much more profound. Especially to two recent graduates who feel guilty daily about not spending enough time in the studio. I was so happy to get out of school, to be in the "real world " for a couple of years before heading back to grad school. But along with the real world comes 40-50 work weeks, at least in mine. Those school loans certainly have caught up with me. Oh and about the book, she touches on different types of career choices. Getting yourself focused and together with an "artist packet." If anybody's interested I'll let them know how the rest of the book is. Perhaps it will get me motivated to read more... - -Amanda Yopp ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V9 #760 ***************************