Baren Digest               Sunday, 8 October 2000       Volume 13 : Number 1170


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From: B Mason <bemason@concentric.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 06:43:49 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11577] Lino 

OK, baren people. I have a question. Has anyone printed lino with
waterbased inks and if so what ink did you use? Did you roll it on? Did
you do anything special to the plate to make it accept the waterbased
ink?

As you probably guessed, I am taking a lino class with Wanda at a local
college from our locally famous Dennis Cunningham. I have admired
Dennis's work for years and am pretty excited to be taking a class from
him. Wanda is doing woodblock, of course! She has taken this class
several times, so Dennis is kind to her and letting her bring in wood!
Seems I can never learn enough about printmaking, so if anyone has
advice, I am all ears!!!
Thanks in advance,
Barbara


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From: baren_member@woodblock.com (Margaret M. Szvetecz)
Date: 7 Oct 2000 14:12:25 -0000
Subject: [Baren 11578] water-based ink, lino 

Message posted by: Margaret M. Szvetecz

I really like Graphic Chemical's water-based inks.  They 
roll out nicely, and have the feel of oil-based inks.  (I 
use the water base extender to make the ink a little looser, 
but that's just because I like a loose ink.) In general, I 
print with them as one would print with oil-bsed inks. And 
yes, I use them for lino cuts. 

The URL for Graphic Chemical is:
http://www.graphicchemical.com./

It looks like Daniel Smith now also has a line of 
water-based inks. They didn't have them when I went 
water-based in my apartment--if they had I would have 
probably used the Daniel Smith inks because I love dealing 
with that company!

The URL for Daniel Smith is:
http://www.danielsmith.com/ 

Margaret (Szvetecz)
szvetecz@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu





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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?dimitris=20grammatikopulos?= <aenaonartst@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:11:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 11580] Re: Lino 

Hi, Barbara!
I have been printing until recently, using water-based inks on lino. You
cannot possibly call that a perfect match. Certainly, given a strong
2-sessions sanding (medium+soft papers)lino becomes more absorbent.
Degreasing it, surely helps a lot.
The main thing is that I mixed my inks ( "Talens" BLOCKPRINT) with a stuff
by Winsor&Newton "Liquin". The effects are visible.
Regards,
Dimitris

P.S. The paper must be humid, needless to say.

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