Baren Digest              Thursday, 24 August 2000      Volume 12 : Number 1123


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From: Cucamongie@aol.com
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:12:49 EDT
Subject: [Baren 11106] thanks Julio 

Thanks Julio for the comments about my participation in the "Her Mark" 
exhibition.  By the way, I was just offered a solo show at this same gallery 
(Woman Made Gallery) next July - woo hoo!
best wishes all and thanks for thinking of me Julio
Sarah

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From: Studio Dalwood <severn@acay.com.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:03:16 +1000
Subject: [Baren 11107] wintergreen oil/brayers 

"If you use Dave's transfer
method of gluing the print to the wood with rice paste, you
never have any worries of using bad chemicals. Just copy your image 
onto thin paper with a photocopy machine and glue it down."

So these ancient masters of hanga all had photocopiers??????
AHEM!!!

(just kidding)

On the subject of brayers. I have a little soft speedball
one which I use for smaller plates and it does the job quite
well. As JR pointed out some of the big ones can be very
heavy and they are too physically hard for me to use. My
other new brayer I bought mail order from Melbourne Etching
SUpplies, it has a removeable roller. It is also a softer
roller - I'm saving up to get another (hard) roller for the
same handle. This is the one that mischeivously leapt off
the wall and hid in the wastepaper basket. 

I clean them with vegie oil and if they are really hard to
clean - some kerosene. I'm using that yummy sticky black
gooey oily inky stuff. None of that woosie waterbased stuff
for this girly!

Josephine
ducking for cover

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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:47:11 +0900
Subject: [Baren 11108] SwapShop update ... 

Few more images came in from the SwapShop coordinator this morning.
Jim's collection is starting to grow - two full pages of prints are now
up there for your inspection ...

http://woodblock.com

... and follow the SwapShop Gallery link ...

Dave



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From: "Daniel L. Dew" <ddew0001@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:33:11 -0400
Subject: [Baren 11109] brayer heaven 

I am so glad someone else brought up the subject of brayers, I thought it
was blaspemous to mention here!
I've been experimenting, but all you "rolling" folks could help me alot.
When "should" you use a hard roller?
A soft roller?
Oil with a soft or oil with a hard?
As most of you know, I work with very small and very tight lines.  I've been
using a soft roller for both oil and water inks, sometimes with success and
sometimes without.
Now that the subject has been broached, let's hear some great solutions!

thanks,

dan dew


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From: Aqua4tis@aol.com
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 22:25:18 EDT
Subject: [Baren 11110] Re: Want to see more doggies ? 

In a message dated 08/23/2000 4:31:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com writes:

> http://www.woodblock.com/forum/messageboard/guestbook.html

congrats sarah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
   what a wonderful gallery    id like to try something like that here in 
covina   (turn one of our old homes into a gallery)   
thanks julio
georga

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From: "Maria Arango" <maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:58:05 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11111] African serigraphs charset="iso-8859-1" 

Hello all,
I'm being accused of staying quiet so I'll talk.
On brayers: I have two urethane brayers that cost a pretty penny but are
worth their weight in gold. They are firm enough for wood engravings and
clean up beautifully. I have read that eventually they do revert back to
their liquid state, and I can't wait for that to happen, but so far they are
12 and 8 years old in hot dry Vegas and still holding their tubular shape.

I have some exciting colorful work from a contemporary African artist,
Momodou Ceesay. Just go to the index page on my website and click on his
name under the Invited Artist's Gallery. Beautiful work, I don't know if
he's a Baren member so any feedback you can e-mail to him directly from his
pages.

I was inspired by this trip. I decided to look at this voyage a bit
differently than I have before, so I concentrated my attention on the road
and the way the landscape allows the road as a passage. Roads and how we
travel through them turned into an analogy for life itself. I decided to
write all my thoughts in a travel diary, so I have been spending some time
doing that. This will be an illustrated diary, with woodcuts and wood
engravings, and my first book project. I will publish on my website as I go
along. My main problem right now is that I want to go back to all those
places that I am writing about and absorb anew all the wonderful inspiration
and beauty gained in this trip.
I learned to "see" in a different way. I snapped pictures right through the
windshield (amazingly turned out okay for reference), over my shoulder, out
the back window without even looking. A trick while driving to be sure, but
I wanted to remember. I learned to remember better with my memory, catching
every light and shadow and line and form and shape and curve, transforming
every road-scape into an instant mental woodcut print. The task now for the
artist in me is to attempt to communicate all those feelings and all that
awesome beauty. The open road, the sinuous mountains, the stark desert, the
blasted canyons, the rocky passes, the fertile farms--roads traversing them
all and connecting them with one another.
Ars longa, vita brevis! (dangit).

Anyhow, I'm back!
Health to all,
Maria

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Maria Arango, Printmaker
Las Vegas  Nevada  USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
Follow along!
quest1000woodcuts@hotmail.com
maria@mariarango.com
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From: "Andy English" <a.english@virgin.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:38:11 +0100
Subject: [Baren 11112] English Brayers charset="iso-8859-1" 

I have two of these, one an antique and another, more recent, from
Lawrences.

The old glycerine rollers did and do melt - I'm still chipping of bits from
an Adana press I'm restoring that had glycerine rollers.

Lawrences used to put Treothene inserts into their brass brayers. These do
melt after about three years. I'm on my second one and expect it to "go"
this year - it is very sudden. I dearly love the quality while it lasts, but
its end is inevitable.

They now use "Durathene", which is the green stuff. This does not revert to
a liquid. I will buy a durothene insert when my treothene liquifies
(inevitably in the middle of a deadline meeting print run!).

You can buy durathene rollers to fit into brass frames from Lawrences. Do
drop in if you are in London - 117-9 Clerkenwell road is a short walk from
the British Museum and the West End. You can also order them for
www.lawrence.co.uk.

I still call them rollers. I can't get used to brayers - perhaps that
because donkeys bray.

Back to the printing.

Let us bray.

Andy


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