[Baren} the mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking Baren Digest Sunday, 2 July 2000 Volume 11 : Number1063 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:00:09 -0400 Subject: [Baren 10252] Re: Baren Digest V11 #1061 Frank I welcome you to our group and look with anticipation your entry into our exchanges! What a treat folks, he is really good! http://www.netcom.com/~fgall Jeanne N. ------------------------------ From: Gerald Soworka Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 01:03:10 +1000 Subject: [Baren 10253] Re: frank gall's work >This is Frank, frequent lurker and occasional commentator. I have been off Loved some of your work Frank, especially the drawing. You're obvoiusly a wonderfully twisted puppyÉ Looks good É BUT É your site is mind-numbingly slow. 2 to 8 minutes a page to down load.It really needs to be much faster if anyone is going to look at your work. Great start Sorry Gerald ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:59:59 +0900 Subject: [Baren 10254] Exchange #7 It is now midnight in Tokyo, and the sign-up page for Exchange #7 has been updated and is open for business (You may need to 'Reload' it in your browser if you looked at it earlier today). (I'm off to bed now, and when I get up in the morning, will be updating the sign-up page with the list of participants.) Dave P.S. Exchange #6 coordinator Gayle is still rambling around Canada on her vacation, so perhaps I can take this opportunity in her place to mention that with #7 now starting up, that means there is only one month left to run before the deadline for finishing #6 ... All under control, I hope? ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 16:18:23 -0700 Subject: [Baren 10258] Frank Gall's work It is apparent that you and I are from the same schooling.... "There is no substitute for the ability to draw" Lovely work indeed. Bold statements as well. Graham http://members.home.net/gscholes/ ------------------------------ From: Studio Dalwood Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 10:55:00 +1000 Subject: [Baren 10259] Sacred Tree Print - preview My apologies people, there _was_ a problem with the images not loading. SOmething to do with the software resetting to unwanted defaults, which has now been identified and fixed. What I really need is a bootleg copy of Dreamweaver2 (what starving artist can afford to buy it!) my scouts are out... ANyway, the images are there now if you want to try again. Thanks for the lovely feedback. I can't wait to edition this. I was certainly inlfuenced by the exchange prints from #5. Horacio and Wanda's cutting in particular. One thing for certain is that particpating has lifted my game. THnakyou all of you for the opportunity and for what I have learned. Now that should just fuel the excitment and rush for the clicking on #7. Someone hold down that mad woman from Las Vagas.. *grin* Now back to that painting thingy Josephine ------------------------------ From: Studio Dalwood Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 11:58:54 +1000 Subject: [Baren 10262] Lost Urls & themes "The requested URL /forum/activities/2000/dayseven.html was not found on this server." Ditto day six, Dave. Like the Comedy of Life theme. BTW I was wondering if anyone would object if I use the 'where you live' theme for a Print Australia exchange? Ditto the Letterforms? It seems to me that the demand to participate is getting stronger and stronger all the time and i would be happy to help DAve out this way. Take some of the pressure off as it were. Can you let me know your feelings on this offline DAve? And speaking of nursery rHymes, check out Jim's Mother Goose series. I've been watching these with interest as he has been truning them out. Lovely work! http://www.telusplanet.net/public/jimwest/mthrgoos.htm Josephine ------------------------------ From: amoss@mindspring.com (John Amoss) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:18:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Baren 10263] baren suji Wow Maria, Baren Suji is certainly a great read! I printed it out for a friend and she was amazed at what you and Baren have done. For those not familiar, see: Thanks again for all the good work, epsecially in all of that desert heat! - -John A. ------------------------------ From: Kat Pukas Date: 1 Jul 00 20:50:00 MST Subject: [Baren 10264] B Mason wrote: >It seems there is a real > rush to sign up, remember a year or so ago when it took weeks to fill I have two words for you: summer vacation. :) Also, I've become more brave, I think... :D Love <3 & Lint * ! Kat (#8 on the list) http://www.u.arizona.edu/~katherip/art.html ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:03:17 -0700 Subject: [Baren 10265] Updates Some stuff about wood: http://www.printmakingstudio.com/Studionotes/wood/wood.html New tiny prints: http://www.printmakingstudio.com/fullsize/blooming.html http://www.printmakingstudio.com/fullsize/lakesunrise.html http://www.printmakingstudio.com/fullsize/templeguard.html A crazy project: (can't subscribe yet, my form don't work :-( http://www.printmakingstudio.com/1000woodcuts/1000.html More on this one later, when my form is fixed. I will probably email most of you off-list to announce the project officially, so don't get cranky at me, just hit the delete button if you don't want to know. Enjoy, Maria ------------------------------ From: Artsmadis@aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:34:50 EDT Subject: [Baren 10266] Re: Updates In a message dated 7/1/00 11:08:40 PM Central Daylight Time, maria@mariarango.com writes: << Some stuff about wood: http://www.printmakingstudio.com/Studionotes/wood/wood.html A crazy project: >> Thanks for the stuff about wood, very useful. Your crazy project is truly crazy, not only doing 1000 woodcuts & engravings but getting 1000 thumbnails on a page don't sound like no fun either! And thanks for Baren-Suji, really good issue. Darrell ------------------------------ From: barbara patera Date: Sat, 01 Jul 100 22:47:46 Pacific Daylight Time Subject: [Baren 10268] Re:wood As a novice woodblock cutter/printer I have a question about wood. To date I've used any wood that has come to hand and of course some worked well and some was pretty nasty stuff....now, however, I have found a huge supply of 1/4" birch plywood that is faced with maple and apple. Should I grab this stuff ,boxes and boxes and boxes of 4"x6" to 6"x9" pieces, or will I be carting home kindling at $5.00 a box. Barbara P. ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 23:13:15 -0700 Subject: [Baren 10269] Re: Maria 1000 Barbara wrote:' > Good Job Maria, I of course tried to sign up anyway, even though you Thanks Barbara! The subscription form works now. What keeps me going is this forum and wonderful work of all the members and the truly hard work that exhibition coordinators and everyone puts into Baren. Cut and print, my good friends, I only have 945 to go! Maria ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:45:24 -0700 Subject: [Baren 10271] Re:wood barbara patera wrote: > I have found a huge supply of 1/4" birch plywood that is faced with >maple and apple. Should I As a lover of birch plywood for hanga *and* oil - I'd say grab it! And faced with maple & apple? You will be very popular with some (I won't mention who) of our Bareners & Barenesses! How much is there in one box? And how far away from me do you live? :-) 4x6 is kinda small - but the 6x9 pieces should be very versatile for exchange prints & stuff. Wanda ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 18:32:50 +0900 Subject: [Baren 10272] Various ... Maria wrote: > http://www.printmakingstudio.com/1000woodcuts/1000.html What's this? Somebody else horning in on _my_ 'takes ten years to finish the project' territory'? :-) What's your ETA at #1000, Maria, and will I live long enough to see it? *** A month or so ago, Maria asked: > On the printmaking end of things, could someone elaborate > on the practice of inserting a block of wood for detail work, > such as boxwood into cherry? I have read some about it but > any tips and tricks would be helpful. Have you seen the pages at: http://woodblock.com/surimono/process.html ? There are a few photos of inlaying boxwood in that section. *** In all the rush to get the Exchange #7 sign-up started the other day I forgot to mention to the group at large that Maria's second issue of 'Baren-Suji', the group newsletter, has now been published and sent out to all those who 'subscribed'. The on-line copy is at: http://woodblock.com/forum/newsletter/issue02/issue02.html ... or you can get to it (and the subscription form) from the main woodblock.com page. *** Josephine wrote: > "The requested URL /forum/activities/2000/dayseven.html was > not found on this server." > > Ditto day six, Dave. Patience, please ... I'm getting to these things one-by-one ... *** ... and: > I was wondering if anyone would object if I use the > 'where you live' theme for a Print Australia exchange? First come - first serve ... I rather doubt that [Baren] will ever be at a loss for a theme suggestion. Run with it! Dave ------------------------------ From: "Rudolf Stalder" Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 08:44:38 -0700 Subject: [Baren 10273] acryl based inks to Toni, Sharen and Barbara Mason The web address of Speedball is http://www.speedballart.com/index.html Acryl based printing inks have interesting potential in respect to multicolor printing. New applied ink does not dissolve the ink already in place. This is relevant if ink overlap may present a serious problem. I use acryl based screen printing ink quite successfully for prints such as http://www.rst-art.com/wlblue.htm . Except of a single not reoccurring patchy distribution of Ultra Blue (# 4651) I had no negative experience so far. I contacted Speedball in this respect about half a year ago and in context of the ensuing conversation they send me some samples of their newly developed acryl based blockprinting inks. As expected acryl based printing ink did not dissolve each other. But also there was no difference between acryl block printing ink and acryl screen printing ink. Acryl based screen printing inks are available in a rather large variety costing about $ 15 / 950 ml of ink. I even had the good fortune of a visit to my studio by a chemist in charge at Speedball and former member of the ASTM board. He was amazed that acryl based screen printing inks could do so well in artistic woodcut printing. Just some days ago I found a message of Barbara Mason (Water Soluble Monotype Directions, http://www.baschwar.com/) against the use of acryl based printing inks. Her opinion would certainly be very welcome and useful to everybody interested in this topic. I believe acryl based printing inks have a lot of potential, but probably also serious limitations. P. S. to Barbara : I like very much your bird on , looks like the first poet struggling with his first poem - a really very old early artist. Rudolf Stalder (http://www.rst-art.com) ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V11 #1063 *****************************