[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Friday, 31 December 1999 Volume 09 : Number 840 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Gayle Wohlken Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:48:58 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7365] Re: Baren Digest V9 #839 I was hoping someone would discuss Dave's idea for Exchange #5. I think I'm a little dense in the head, but I don't quite understand what we are supposed to think about on this one. Ten people, ten colors. It would make sense if say 10 people were looking at the same thing, but what would this mean by itself? Ten people, ten colors about what? Dave? Help? Also, one of my dragons disappeared, too, Josephine. I've looked all over the house for it and it's nowhere. I wonder if your disappearing one is the same as mine? Wouldn't it be odd if these self destruct? Gayle ------------------------------ From: Mary Krieger Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:41:24 -0600 Subject: [Baren 7367] ten people, ten colours Gayle Wohlken wrote: > I was hoping someone would discuss Dave's idea for Exchange > #5. Hi Gayle and all, Here's what I have figured out so far.. I am still playing with the idea of collaboration - this theme is lifting itself up in several areas of my life these days. So 'ten people' immediately started me thinking about getting ten people involved. I felt that the expectations of the exchange was that the print itself should be carved and printed by myself. So maybe that wasn't such a good idea. My dominant image theme of landscape didn't seem to fit too well. Where would I find an image? Hmm... Maybe my two problems added up to a solution. What if ten people each contributed a tenth of the image? 'Ten people, ten colours' seemed to me to imply one was asking the ten people the same question and receiving ten answers. So what would I ask? .... I'm still deciding though I have some ideas that haven't quite gelled. Mary Krieger ------------------------------ From: Chloe T LeMay Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:35:42 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7369] Re: Dazed And Confused > However, I think if you are going to do Hanga it is good to have a starting > point and the traditional tools will .......will give you a strong basis > from which to work. I agree with Graham about starting out on a strong foundation. Learn the rules thoroughly so you can violate them intelligently later. Curtis ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 13:02:50 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7370] Re; various Dear Fellow Barens Have been out of the loop for the past 2 weeks due to holiday frivolities. So have been catching up on the posts. Julio What a great place for the Baren Show. I am sure it is a lot of work and you deserve a huge pat on the back!!!! I hope that when the show is hanging that you give us an additional treat and send more photos. April I have been thinking about attending the Miami Print Conference and should know by the end of next week. I will let you know. It sounds great, however, I wonder why they alway seem to neglect woodblock printmaking? Christy My feelings as to the meaning of art is prefaced on the fact that art chronicles the time that we live in, starting with the primitive cave drawings to the present. How could we trace our past without art? Whether it be a social statement (sometimes the drawings on the Egytian artifacts to the paintings of waterlilies of Monet. His statement is not social but esthetic, and that is necessary to our lives. So much for that. See what I get for lagging behind? Thanks for all of those marvelous Dragons, They are all cavorting with one another in my studio. What a fantastic collection!!! Josephine and Julio have a wonderful page devoted to those critters. Dremmel tools have reared their head, I was wondering when they would. I use them to cut away all the large areas of the woodblock. Yes, I guess I am lazy, but I still have a hard time using a chisel properly. The rest of my blocks are cut with knives, which I still have not mastered in all of these 25 plus years of carving, You would think I would have learned by now!! Gayle and Mary and Wanda and all Let us have some input on the latest Exchange. I keep coming up with ideas and discarding them as questionable. I will have to give this one a lot of thought, what say you?? And a very warm welcome to the new members who snuck (is this a word?) in , whilst I was away frolicking. Welcome, Christy, Curtis, Dwight, Chloe and Dan. Just where do you live in Florida Dan? I am in Sarasota. PS; I have no qualms about the Dragons being woodblocks, or whatever , as long as they are hand printed. It is not a Baren Exchange. It was a Pete Exchange. And step up to the bat, all of you new people on the next exchange. We want to know you. Sorry this is long, just trying to get 2 weeks in one post. Happy New Year Jeanne N. ------------------------------ From: Roxanne Sexauer Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:43:06 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7372] Re: Southern Graphics Council, Miami Dear All, Finally back after a hectic semester, until another frantic term rears its head. Jeanne, in reply to the below, I will have a woodcut in the following (mainly woodcut) portfolio, organized by Nancy Palmeri. The scale of the portfolio is 22 x 30", a size more in keeping with most of my own work, although I must confess I'm mixing litho & screenprinting with my woodcut print. I'm planning on being in attendence, and would love to meet those of you who plan to attend. There was a wonderful conference solely devoted to the woodcut in the Americas, hosted by Graphicstudio in Tampa about three years ago...was anyone else from Baren there? Great talk on Jose Guadalupe Posada 's broadsheets (true, they are metal reliefs). The last Southern Graphics Council wingding I attended in Tempe featured a wonderful exhibition of Leopoldo Mendez' relief prints (true, they are mostly linoleum cuts). Roxanne Sexauer Ship of Fools: Narrative and Humor in Relief Printing moderated by Nancy Palmeri, University of Arlington, featuring Tom Huck of Washington University and Bill Fick of Cockeyed Press (an exhibition of the Ship of Fools print exchange curated by Nancy Palmeri will be exhibited at Books and Books in Coral Gables). ------------------------------ From: Lynita Shimizu Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:24:00 -0500 Subject: [Baren 7374] Re: Re; various In response to the discussion about the theme, "Ten People, ten colors", I think the quote expresses the individuality of people...if you have ten people, they will see ten colors ... or that they are each the ten colors, i.e., ten unique individuals. We have 30 people so we will have 30 prints, each print being the product of the eyes and heart of the person who creates it. Perhaps I'm thinking too shallowly, but it seems the theme offers an "anything goes" opportunity. I hope this is all right as I've already stretched the theme so I can just do the next print I was planning to make, a print with some people who are making their own music. Hmmm... As for our very cute digital dragon, I'm one of the people who encouraged his creator to join the exchange. The image was not a reproduction but was an image created on the computer by our member. I must admit I'm rather a purist when it comes to my own mokuhanga techniques but I certainly do enjoy peeking into the minds of other people... like to see their colors. If you haven't received my dragon yet, except for the last couple of names on the list, please send me a private e-mail. It seems some prints may have be lost in the mail. If I could sneak in one more dragon note (since I'm not in "After Five"), my dragon is in the shape of 2000. So far no one has noticed. My best wishes to all members, old and new, for a wonderful New Year! Lynita ------------------------------ From: "Michelle D. Hudson" Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:18:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Baren 7380] Exchange #3 (From Ray H in Vermont) Although I had to chase him down the street, I was able to get the package with prints from Exchange #3 from the mailcarrier today. It's a collection full of energy & I'm certain will provide much discussion in the weeks to come (after they are posted at Baren & all can participate). Many thanks, Wanda and Barbara, for all your work getting this together. And thanks to all Baren folks for a year of great discussions, ideas, inspiration, and stimulation. Best of the Next year to all. Ray ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V9 #840 ***************************