Baren Digest Sunday, 22 October 2000 Volume 13 : Number 1188 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lynita Shimizu Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:21:26 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11819] Re: texturing the block Bea, Sorry my explanation wasn't clear. On the example print, only the yellow area is textured with the exacto knife/wirebrush. One block was cut for the mountain in the foreground and was printed with a light yellow. A second block was cut for the same area but then was scratched with the knife and wire brush. This second block was then printed with a slightly darker yellow over the plain block. Just remembered another way to get texture is to hammer an area with nails. Lots of ways to vent those emotions in woodblock, right? :-) Lynita ------------------------------ From: "Dr. Rectangle" Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 13:11:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Baren 11821] RE: Baren Digest V13 #1187 Thanks very much to Sarah and April... April, you couldn't read the website? Did I give a faulty link? Didn't http://www.printalliance.org/ work? Or maybe my homepage wasn't working at the time? I am enjoying my baren indeed, and I'm trying to make some hanga prints here. With any luck, I will get an independent study with Cerese Vaden at the University of Arizona next semester that will allow me to do hanga at home and bring the results in for critique at the school... Cerese, of course, remembers you from Frogman's, April. She is displaying the Frogman's exchange prints in the showcase in the hall just outside the printroom right now--beautiful. And I'm spreading the word about how great hanga is among the people in my intaglio class... no press, no acid, no fumes, no gloves, no wiping ink, etc. :) Kat Pukas http://www.u.arizona.edu/~katherip/art.html ------------------------------ From: Sharri LaPierre Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:46:01 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11822] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1187 From: Sharri LaPierre Date: Sat. 21 Oct. 2000 Subject: Intaglio To the people who have intaglio questions I just received the following address: http://www.art2u.com. They have set up a forum where you can ask any kind of question and an example they gave was "how to set up a non toxic intaglio studio". I hope I haven't violated the forum by suggesting this address (gulp). Sharri ------------------------------ From: "Jean Eger" Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 12:41:14 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11823] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1187 charset="iso-8859-1" Sharen, do you have an address for "Self Help Graphics?" I can't imagine why anyone would want to embed grit in a woodcut that they have spent a lot of time one. Well, maybe it would produce an interesting texture, but one can get a wide range of textural effects using standard techniques without getting that far out. Jean E-W http://users.lanminds.com/~jeaneger ------------------------------ From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:31:07 EDT Subject: [Baren 11824] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1187 Maria wrote: << In doing my exchange #7 print, I needed some texture on some items in the background block that was a bit rougher than what sharp tools can produce, and much more random for a "concrete-block-like" effect. >> Maria, I'm sure you're doing oil based printing, but for those who use water-based, if you are printing Japanese style, just brush on the pigment without using rice paste and have it a bit on the watery side, and you will get a mottled effect without having to drive over the block in your buick :) best wishes all Sarah ------------------------------ From: "Murilo" Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:36:22 -0200 Subject: [Baren 11825] Re: Just talking I Dear fellows, I've been always reading these amazing conversation on-line of the = (Baren) group. It's incredible as I became "friend" so quickly, I can = imagine everybody when I'm here with you through the writting text. I = thought now, in this moment, that this happens because of ART. This = indefinited and unlimited "thing" called ART. WEll, I wanted not to use = so many adjectives, but it is quite impossible, because I have to = eulogize, to exalt the love you have for asking questions, words... I = want to "shake hands" with David Bull,to embrace him, wanted or not, = the great Baren Master. His site has everything you want to know about = woodcut - I learned to call IT "xylografie" - xilografia - xilogravura. = I have never imagined that one day I will hear one Japanese woman voice = saying the Baren dictionary words. Well, Dave is a musician, too. I = think this is the main force that makes him to execute, to play = Japanese masters as one of them. I never become bored when I go to visit = his site. That's plenty of things to be seen, and everything super = organized, like a sanctuary. About the digest, that I love, sometimes I = feel it a little " superficial", sorry say that. Perhaps I don't = understand very well. Who am I? Just a nothing in front of you . for = sure, I wanted to be like Gao Xingjian,(but I'm not. I'm just an old = fashioned person that likes Ava Gardner. So I don't know if I have the = necessary and essencial knowledge that is needed to say that sometimes = the conversation sounds to me like entertainment. I don't understand = indeed why you're asking for. It's the wanting to learn or to = experiment new tecniques?! I feel also some "anguish" in the words. = Perhaps your're too professional for me. I'm Brazilian, and this makes = me always lazy. I knew today about the death of Julie London, the great American singer, = "Now, you say you're lonely, You cried the long night through.Well you = can cry me a river, cry me a river, I cried a river ove you". Forgive if = Id be too much old and stupid . Professor Dave you are great for your = contribution to Printmaking, "Printmenkind". Best wishes. Murilo = Pereira. ------------------------------ From: Graham Scholes Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:38:08 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11826] Re: Just talking I Murilo have you visited others ..... Like Maria.... http://www.1000woodcuts.com Jean has some good stuff.... http://users.lanminds.com/~jeaneger Are two that come to mind. Gosh I hope I have not missed any others. >Professor Dave you are great for your contribution to Printmaking, Dave is not a professor. Having spent three weeks here with my wife and I. we are sure he will be embarrassed by that statement. We talked about Mastership and he has "no interest" (his words) in being a master. He likes to copy the old masters and that is where he is most comfortable. As my site is not layed out for ease of access to surfers I have listed some pages you will find most helpful with the Hanga method of printmaking. http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Worktables.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Sharpen.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Sharpvgouge.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Tiebaren.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Hori-Dai.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/kento.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Carvingtools.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/GetPasted.html http://members.home.net/woodblocks/Inkbrush.html and to learn about Boot Camp (workshop) go here..... http://members.home.net/woodblocks/wkspcasual2000.html enjoy Graham/Victoria BC An Island in the Pacific ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V13 #1188 *****************************