Baren Digest              Friday, 20 October 2000      Volume 13 : Number 1186


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From: "Elizabeth B. Atwood" <elizuno@midcoast.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 13:53:56 -0500
Subject: [Baren 11798] workbench 

Cate.............Check out my entry in the encyclopedia under Technical Notes.

<http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/012_09/012_09_frame.html>

The workbench made from a drafting table can be used as a complete printing
station......with the advantage of being tilted down and put
away.......also, can be raised to any level for stand-up work.
Working in one's kitchen is not a bad idea.....until you earn a studio. We
have all started somewhere!..........ElizA



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From: "Kinzua" <Kinzua@email.msn.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 16:23:04 -0400
Subject: [Baren 11799] Re:   Baren Digest V13 #1185 charset="Windows-1252" 

Of paints and print studios:
Hello,
Thanks for the paint suggestions.  I think it might be the nature of the
beast that most textile paints dry a little to fast to give me time to ink a
large collagraph plate.  I get most of my paints at Pearl or from Dick
Blick.  I will call Golden.  I've notice a flood of new all-surface paints
all the sudden so the search goes on.
Regarding the studio issue.  I have one of my studios in a spare bedroom
too.  I got a big cloth painters drop cloth to cover the floor and rug.  Not
the plastic ones, they're too slippery.  When I need to clean the place up
for a studio visit or (horrors!) to turn it into a guestroom for courageous
visitors, I just whip the thing up and throw it in the closet.  I made
myself a big printing table that sounds like what you need.  Just made it
out of a big piece of plywood and saw horses that I made really tall.
Mine's padded because I use it for printing fabric and I like to stand up
while I do it.  That's in my barn.  I have another one that folds up in my
apartment studio and I use that with a bench hook for carving linoleum, ah,
er, I mean wood.  But I notice that the folding one is getting a little
shaky from over-use.  You can see both on the studio page my website, sort
of.
Karen


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From: Studio Dalwood <severn@acay.com.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:40:35 +1000
Subject: [Baren 11800] Gone astray.  

Graham complained

"I have noticed for the past several months more and more
blah blah 
blah about etching and related problems.
We should stay focused on woodblock printmaking as this
forum is 
design for that purpose and attracts like people.
There are other listserver forums, and if not then someone
should go 
and set one up, to deal with the sport of etching and
engraving 
problems."

Not a problem Graham. ANyone who wants to chat about
non-woodblock methods is very welcome over on Print
Australia. The more the better I say and lets keep it
informal too! Print Australia draws the line at digital
stuff, but any and all other methods are encouraged for
discussion.

http://www.acay.com.au/~severn/discuss.htm

For those who are not already members or participants in the
exchanges over there, the above URL will take you to the
instructions on how to join. I might add that those
exchanges are for prints in all methods too. 

That way, Graham can BLAH BLAH BLAH about woodblock in peace
*grin*

Josephine

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From: barebonesart <barebonesart@home.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:50:57 -0700
Subject: [Baren 11801] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1185 

Subject: Spare bedroom

Cate,
You might try just glueing some small pieces of carpet along the edge of
your table so it won't mark the walls.  I know I sound like I work for Green
Drop Inks, (I don't) but they are terrific for both relief &, pardon the
term, intaglio printing. They are waterbase and you can get a tack reducer
to modify them to your needs. www.safeink.com  They can be used like oil
based inks, I've never tried them for Eastern style printing, but they might
work for that, too.

Sharri



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From: "john ryrie" <jryrie@one.net.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:55:34 +1000
Subject: [Baren 11802] intaglio charset="iso-8859-1" 

David said>
 But Graham's point is a very good one - there are other venues around
> where such topics really do belong, >

Another possibility is the after 5 list, there are a lot of good intaglio
printers on it, and you can talk about anything you like there.

John


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From: Greg Carter <artfool@bulloch.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:41:37 -0400
Subject: [Baren 11803] Re: intaglio 

Though Baren is a list for wood block printers I think it would be sad to
loose its many members as a source of information for topics that somtimes
go beyond wood.  I hope the list would allow members to maybe ask questions
but the answers could come off line so others will not be botherd by it.
Greg Carter



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