Baren Digest              Tuesday, 10 October 2000      Volume 13 : Number 1173


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From: "Maria Arango" <maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:56:40 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11626] drying prints charset="iso-8859-1" 

The cheapest easiest way to dry prints is the ol' clothes line and wooden
pins. I have a 100 foot line going back and forth 8 times between hooks on
the ceiling (bike hanging hooks). The whole set up cost about $15 at the
friendly neighborhood Walmart. You can hang the line so you can reach it or
higher if you like the exercise of going up and down a little bench or want
the prints out of the way. I can hang approximately 300 prints.
I also have sweater racks, cheapie ones that stack on top of each other and
can come apart for storage. They hold about 200 engraving size prints.
No, I've never had everything full at once. You think I'm some kind of a
maniac? Don't answer that...
I have tried Cobalt drier, but geez, here in the desert everything dries so
fast I can usually print a reduction state on consecutive days without
trouble. Even the latest prints, where I really chunk the ink in layers,
dried in about 3 days or so. Cobalt drier does seem to crackle the ink and
it will dry on your roller if left out too long. Use very little.

The art fair this weekend brought about some new woodcut terminology, to
wit:
- - "stamp" is a woodblock, ready to print; "stamping" is pulling a print
- - "scratch art" is a wood engraving
- - "wood carving" is what we do
- - "slice" is a print (don't ask, this lady thought that we first cut the
block, then slice it real thin making it look like paper)
- - "cutlery" is what we use to cut the blocks
- - "lino on wood" is a woodcut
- - "wood burning" is more difficult and I oughta try it
- - "wood lithos" are woodcut prints
- - "stomp" is how we get a print from the block (couldn't argue with that one
due to my recent GMC Jimmy adventure)
- - "1930" is when Europe "invented" woodcut printmaking
'Twas fun! :-)
Oh, I set the record straight on all the above.

Health to all,
Maria

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Maria Arango, Printmaker
Las Vegas  Nevada  USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
maria@mariarango.com
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From: "Jean Eger" <jeaneger@LanMinds.Com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:31:02 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11627] Re:   Baren Digest V13 #1172 charset="iso-8859-1" 

Thanks for the compliment on the Where I Live print.  British printmakers
etched outside, so that looks like the way to go.  The air flow in the
kitchen can be checked with incense.  I got a bit of  liquid ceramic glaze
in my right eye a couple of weeks ago and now it is starting to bother me.
I put water in my eye immediately, but guess I didn't get it all out.  Then
I got hit in the eyes with smoke from a stove fire on board a liberty ship
this weekend, which really stung my eyes.  Added to that the muscle
tiredness from watching the computer screen all day.  The presidential
debates can be watched on the WWW at
http://www.cspan.org/special/debates.asp

I could still do another "comedy of life print," because the one I sent is
so crummy.  When is the deadline?  The first idea a jailbird and calling it
"Escape From Alcatraz." -- a bird with stripes, and Alcatraz Island in the
background, but I just couldn't make it work, so I printed something else
instead.  It's a linocut of three people offering a carrot to young pegasus.
Sometimes the muse just doesn't inspire.  It was a good idea in theory, but
the execution of the print really leaves a lot to be desired.  Pegasus was
drawn from a beautiful little statue by an old classmate.
Jean

http://users.lanminds.com/~jeaneger


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