[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Tuesday, 16 November 1999 Volume 09 : Number 781 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Maria Arango Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:12:45 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6623] Re: Baren Digest V9 #780 > I went and had a look and I was so dissapointed when it finished in the > middle. Wot no pickies of the car printing? Josephine, you are right, we are in the carving process still. Daryl is actually looking into getting a license to drive a steamroller. I'm afraid it might be too heavy and crack the wood. We already found a defect in the second or third ply that extends quite a ways into the block and might cause us problems when printing. Neither of us has a Buick, by the way, it will have to be a GMC Jimmy print or a Jeep print. If those are too heavy, I'll have my husband pull out the MGB GT out of the garage and print with that. I will post again when we make more progress and have more pics to show. Imagine an International Exhibition of 4'x8' woodcut prints! On another note, this Friday is the opening for the Charlevoix Gallery show in New Mexico, I believe two other bareners (Sara Hauser & Andrea Rich) and I are in a 7-artist group show. I will take pics of the show and "show and tell" upon my return. Any "must sees" in Albuquerque? Health to all, better get carving, Maria ------------------------------ From: Wanda Robertson Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 08:54:27 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6624] Julian Trevelyan Award Good morning Bareners! This came in my e-mail this morning and I thought some of you might be interested: The Print Europe web site - http://www.connectworks.co.uk/printeurope/ - now has an article on the Julian Trevelyan Award, worth one thousand pounds to the winning printmaker. Could you circulate this to all and sundry printmakers you know? The article , by Irene Scheinmann of Print Europe, explains how the winner is chosen from entrants to the National Print Exhibition -- _submission dates 10th and 11th of December 1999_ -- and also why the award was set up in Julian's memory. The article is illustrated with prints by Julian Trevelyan, there is a detailed biography and also information about the Bohun Gallery which deals in his prints. The Bohun Gallery, in Henley-on-Thames, is holding an exhibition of Julian Trevelyan's work running from 8th - 30th November 1999. It also sells the Catalogue raisonnŽ of prints by Silvie Turner. Full details and an order form are available on the Print Europe site. Best wishes, Simon Simon Rae-Scott for ConnectWorks Limited 12A Brackenbury Road, Hammersmith, London W6 0BA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)181 563 7066 Fax: +44 (0)181 741 4173 E-mail: onlyconnect@connectworks.co.uk URL http://www.connectworks.co.uk ------------------------------ From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:02:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Baren 6625] Congrats all around! I'll be doing the Horizons Elderhostel hanga woodcut workshop again next summer, one week in mid-August in central Massachusetts. Dave Bull will not attend,I'm afraid, but the place is beautiful, and the price is right. Bea recommends it, so it must be good! April Vollmer ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger" Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 03:34:22 +0900 Subject: [Baren 6626] All, I came across a stunning woodcut web site from Ireland the other day. I think you will enjoy looking at it: http://lanewoodcuts.com/main.html Jean Eger ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:23:47 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6627] California in Jan Hi all, Thanks for the kind wishes - the surgery went very well and I'm healing now. I think it will be a longer haul to recovery than last time though. It is quite a fantastic process so if anyone needs info just ask - I am an expert! Can we have the California in January meeting at my house? We have lots of room, are centrally located and it would make it easier for me, now. So far I remember Roxanne (but she hasn't been on for a while) , Ruth, Georga, Pete, Dutch and Maria and Jean and James who is a member of the LA Print Society and someone in San Diego I think!- What do you have Geoega? How about coming down to Southern CA, Andea, so we can congratulate you in person? If anyone comes in at Burbank you can be picked up easily. We also have room to put people up. How about it? Anyone else coming into LA area? Date for me is no problem - I'm not going anywhere for a while. Graham your boot camp sounds very inviting - how many people do you have signed up now? The Elderhostel with April is very good and remember you can tag along if you are under 50 if someone is going who is 50 or more. It is inexpensive and the other workshops are also interesting at Horizons. ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:36:36 -0600 Subject: [Baren 6628] re: Dragon exchange Count me in. Regarding the size of the dragon cards, someone wrote: >4 x 6 is the suggested size of the cards. This suggestion came to us from >the exchange at Kansas City Art Institute, I believe." This is great news....my exchange #3 print is 15 1/2 X 10 1/2. I was able to get four prints from each of my japanese Mulberry sheets which measured 25" X 37". You do the cutting math.............I have a lot of left over scraps which are exactly 6" & 4" wide (depending on which direction I cut the paper.....)!!!!! Ready to go here. Any type of dragon is okay right ? Or does it have to be a traditional japanese dragon ? Julio...........................ps. I am moving to Southern California. ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:59:42 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6630] Re: California in Jan Bea wrote.... >Can we have the California in January meeting at my house? >We have lots of room, Hummmm is it sunny and warm there at that time of year? For 25 years Marnie and I have threatened to go a see a Palm tree. >Graham your boot camp sounds very inviting - how many people do you have >signed up now? We have 4 persons..... Just room for one woman and two men. We have 6 people attending workshop.....one of these I believe will camp on the property the other is from Victoria. Cheers, Graham ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:57:01 -0600 Subject: [Baren 6631] re: Monster cut Maria writes: >Daryl is actually looking into getting a license to drive a steamroller. I'm >afraid it might be too heavy and crack the wood. We already found a >defect in the second or third ply that extends quite a ways into the >block and might cause us problems when printing. >Neither of us has a Buick, " There are some small-sized steamrollers outhere.....I have seen them used around here for small time street & curb work...they are about the size of a midsized lawn tractor . Cylinder is probably approx. 4' wide with a 1-2' diameter. Check witht your local "Public Works" people. You might be able to take your stuff to them and have the maintenance crew do the driving for you if you throw in a freebie print or buy them lunch. Another option might be a one-day rental from a heavy-equipment Rental place. Regarding the defects in your ply, you can try filling them in with some hardening compound or glues available at your local hardware store. From the point of detection you can get a plastic syringe and a thin tubing (like in aquarium stuff) and inject the glue via the tubing as deep as you can into the middle layers of ply until the stuff squirts back out at you. Chances are that if it is a large running defect, you'll be able to get at it from various points of entry (of course it depends on your design). Once the stuff hardens, it should help and prevent cracks when printing. It helps if you mix in some sawdust or wood chips with the glue. I have used this approach& it works well with ply to prevent cracks & splinters when boat building due to the stresses caused by the severe bending of the plywood. There is a drastically more expensive plywood available from boat builders (or from plywood distributors) called "marine ply" which is available with different top layers (mahogany, birch, teak, etc) which is guaranteed to have no defects or gaps within the layers. Is used for boat hulls and decks. It comes from 1/4" all the way to 1" thick. You can get it with 3-ply, 5 ply or more. It's really great ply. The glue is of course water proof. My 81' Buick Regal lasted 12+ years under Chicago weather conditions...despite my poor care and upkeep. I miss her/him very much. Julio {:-) ------------------------------ From: Sheryl Coppenger Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:03:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Baren 6632] Re: New site. > >> 'Sunday printmakers'. Namely - most [Baren] members! I used to take a painting class on Sunday, and eventually the teacher left and the students stayed in an "open studio" arrangement. We were all middle-aged or near middle-aged women and worked in realistic styles, often on still life but sometimes on landscape. I think we were all working on flower paintings on the day we realized that we were the embodiment of all the cliches and stereotypes that made the art establishment foam at the mouth. It made us very proud. :-) So I don't mind being called a Sunday printmaker. And not only that, but if you want to buy one of my paintings or prints because it matches your couch it's fine with me. I'm a child of 60s. Power to the people. Down with the entrenched power structure. Fight the establishment. Just say no to elephant dung. Rock on. :-) Sheryl Coppenger ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:07:20 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6633] Re: Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:31:33 -0800 >http://lanewoodcuts.com/main.html Wonderful....would love to see this stuff in the buff....(real) The East Coast was right up there as the best. Hard to choose when they are close to tens..... Graham ------------------------------ From: Josephine Severn Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:47:53 +1100 Subject: [Baren 6634] Dragons Hi everyone I have just mailed my info to Pete to put me in the Dragon exchange. I guess I feel a little responsible for this one. When I was younger the Dragon was my personal totem. I have a clear memory of drawing a big one on the pavement outside our home in England when I was a very little girl. And then being too scared to leave the house in case it 'got' me, my mother had to wash it off before I would leave the house. I also drew one with a hair clip (deeply scratched) on the side of my mother's prize french-polished sideboard. For some reason, the dragon has lost its potency for me in later years. I think it has strong spiritual significance. Perhaps I have come far enough that I dont need the guidance anymore. Wow that one was a bit deep! Things are getting busier for me at the moment, but I think I can fit in a small card. Do we send one to each person on the list? Andrea, congratulations! It is so rewarding when someone recognises your hard work. Josephine ------------------------------ From: Pedrobot@aol.com Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:46:08 EST Subject: [Baren 6636] Re: Dragons >Things are getting busier for me at the moment, but I think I can fit in > a small card. Do we send one to each person on the list? That's the idea. But it's up to you. If you can't do enough, send them to who you like best (and the guy running the page:) ) - --Pete ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:52:11 +0900 Subject: [Baren 6637] Exchange #3 Portfolio ... The coordinators for Exchange #3, which is now in the final stages of collation, have asked me to make a bit of an announcement about the folio. It's a sort of bad news/good news type of announcement! We started with thirty participants, and each of the members indeed sent in thirty prints to be exchanged. Unfortunately, one of the participants was forced to withdraw some time ago (too late to ask anybody else to step in), reducing the number to twenty-nine. But rather than simply return the 'extra' prints to their creators, Barbara has arranged for this thirtieth copy of the portfolio to become part of the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum, which I understand has quite an extensive print collection. On the off chance that any of the participants do not want their prints to be in the collection, they may 'opt out' of this - simply ask Barbara to return your print to you, and she will do so. She will be in contact with you shortly, to collect extra 'bio' information on each participant (to become part of the museum record-keeping.) *** 'Odds & Ends' department ... For those of you looking for a source of supply for things like sumi inks, seal carving kits, calligraphy brushes, and various papers, you will perhaps enjoy the interesting web site at: http://www.houserice.com (How about a $4 dragon wall scroll???) Dave ------------------------------ From: Pedrobot@aol.com Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:10:44 EST Subject: [Baren 6638] Re: Exchange #3 Portfolio ... Now, as a newbie to the Wonderful World of Printmaking (and art in general), I have to ask if it would be reasonable for me to include in my portfoilio that I have a print in the permanent collection at the Portland Art Museum? Maybe for you jaded, professional-types this is no biggie, but for a sopping-behind-the-ears fella like myself, this is a big deal. I mean, even if it is in a back-door sort of way, I figure this qualifies as a fairly impressive thing for me to site on my request for scholarships, grants, and grad school applications... Anyway, I'm stoked. - --Pete ------------------------------ From: B Mason Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:31:10 -0800 Subject: [Baren 6639] Portland Art Museum Opportunity To All Exchange #3 people, Please send me a resume or at least a small amt of biographical information to go with the portfolio to the museum. You may mail it or e-mail it to me, either is fine. This is a pretty exciting opportunity, especially for those of you who do not have work in collections as yet. Dr Gordon Gilkey at the Portland Oregon Art Museum is an avid print collector and at 87 has amassed a collection for the museum of over 23,000 works on paper (this includes prints, some drawings and photographs). 16,000 of these were his private collection. The Museum has a Print Center that is open to the public by appointment where anyone can go in and look at any piece in the collection. Many students, collectors, and researchers as well as a few otheres use this facility. So now you will be able to add to your resume that you have a piece of work in the collection of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey for Graphic Arts at the Portland, OR Art Museum. This can only be a plus for all of us.We are lucky to have this opportunity, Dr Gilkey is 87 as I said and when he no longer is curator of the prints and drawings at the Musseum, I am sure their acceptance policy on the work of "unknown" (meaning not already famous) artists will come to a screaching halt. This will be a shame, as they have first work by many now famous artists but is probably a reality. So send me you bio's and we will take full advantage of this opportunity. Barbara Mason ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V9 #781 ***************************