Baren Digest Saturday, 28 October 2000 Volume 13 : Number 1196 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Daniel Dew Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:25:20 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11876] lonely for prints If you aren't in Exchange #7 and you're feeling down 'cause ain't no prints coming your way, then send a few off to the Swap Shop! James would love to see a few more packages and the Swap Shop Gallery is a little skimpy, so step on it. Give yourself or a friend the best Christmas present ever! Think of it, an original print. Wow! dan dew ------------------------------ From: John and Jan Telfer Date: Fri, 27 Oct 00 23:47:34 -0000 Subject: [Baren 11879] Re:Lionel Lindsay's Wood Engravings "Baren Digest" Hello Everyone, I have returned from the Olympic Games in Sydney - sitting next to the resting place of the burning cauldron at the Opening Ceremony (next to the waterfall) with other past Olympic Families and sat under the Sydney Harbour Bridge at the Closing Ceremony. Wow..it was spectacular. This would have been the very best time to visit Sydney - everyone was so friendly and Stranger Danger went right out the window. I met my Sydney counterparts from Baren and Print Australia - Josephine, Gerald and Anthea and feel now that my emails have more depth and meaning. When are we going to have a Baren "Get together"? I have just caught up on individual emails and read Baren Digests from 1143 to 1194 - that took a few days!!! I saw Australian, Margaret Preston's hand coloured woodblock Exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW and have tonight returned from Lionel Lindsay's (1874-1961) (wood engravings and a few etchings - 106 prints in all) Exhibition Opening at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia. Andy English, Maria and Bob Mandel and other Bareners, you would love to see these original works. It is open till December if you book your flights now you will have plenty of time to see it several times! The work is so fine and intricate and the ink application so even and dense it is beautiful. I have an original Morning Glory (The White Peacock) 1932 on my bedroom wall so I have a particular interest although I haven't tried engraving in wood, only perspex. Last night was our Prize Night for the Calligraphers' Guild of WA which was sponsored at the WA Art Gallery by Mr Haruhisa Handa, a Japanese sponsor of the Arts (Music, Calligraphy and Blind Golf to name just a few). Three woodblocks of my "Great Aussie Flag Debate" Series with the national anthems calligraphed over them won third prize in the Open Section. I was stoked...not boasting...just overjoyed...Being the lone Barener in WA I had no one else to post my win!!! The woodblock consists of linear Australian symbols that have been "surfacing" for a "new" Australian flag design for several years and this linear woodblock (took me 31 hours to carve) I have coloured in different sections of symbols in watercolour and written our past anthem "God Save the Queen" on one and our "Advance Australia Fair" on other prints, so that each woodblock print in the series varies with the mixed media superimposed. Hiroshi Tomihari has recently taken one into his collection at his gallery in Oyama, Japan. The woodblock size is A3 (30x45cm) but the calligraphy often extends beyond that size. I have been combining Woodblocks and calligraphy for some time, but it isn't easy to combine them for Baren Exchanges!! Thank you for my Exchange #6 prints...the smaller format was fun to work with (especially at such short notice). Each time the quality of work really surpasses the one before. Well done everyone. I am anxiously awaiting #7 Comedy of life now. Jan ------------------------------ From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:02:10 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11881] Keji S. and Maria's Schemes It is hard to keep up with all the info! Kat, thanks for sending your link again, nice page, I did get through this time. Good luck with your printing, I am so glad you are stuck on HANGA! I had a great visit from a young printmaker Huyn Yung, who had studied hanga woodcut with Keji Shinohara at Weslyan U in MA...or is it CT? Anyway, it was a pleasure to meet her, and hear about his approach to woodcut. He learned in Japan and then moved to the States years ago. He is one of the few people teaching woodcut here. He also teaches various workshops, and prints for artists. Anybody else know him? Hyun Yung and I worked on printing my Mineature Print as a benefit for the Lower East Side Printshop. Anyone who wants to see it can visit the Printshop at 59-60 East 4th St, NYC for their open studio December 9. I also enjoyed the various points of view on selling work...Maria, I do hope to to go the SGC meeting in Austin this March. What are you scheming? How much money and how many prints do you want? April Vollmer 174 Eldridge St, NYC 10002, 212-677-5691 http://www.aprilvollmer.com ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:26:42 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11882] Re: Maria's Schemes charset="iso-8859-1" Say whhhhhhhaaaat? I'm no schemer! :-) I just thought some Bareners could get together in Austin for pizza and beer and a good "live" chat in the flesh in between those invigorating printmaking sessions. We'll try to keep you away from the Karaoke. Money? Never touch the nasty stuff. Prints? Now them I snort like an addict. Maria <><><><><><><><><><><><> Maria Arango, Printmaker Las Vegas Nevada USA http://www.1000woodcuts.com maria@mariarango.com <><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ From: "Daniel L. Dew" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 19:12:32 -0400 Subject: [Baren 11883] New Web Site It's finally here! Announcing, The Dan Dew web site. http://www.dandew.com/ Look it over, let me know if any poblems and/or suggestions. Thanks, Dan Dew ------------------------------ From: "kate courchaine" Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:44:31 GMT Subject: [Baren 11886] Re: Baren Digest V13 #1194 Dear Jean E, You wrote: >Dear Cate, >Why don't you print your chops and put them on line? etc. I think you got me mixed up with Cate Pfeifer, she is interested in chops too. The chops that I came across are all blanks, the tops of the chops however have Chinese zodiac animals carved. Dan Dew, your web site is very nice. The format is very functional. Good Job! Kate Courchaine ------------------------------ From: "Bea Gold" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:47:10 -0700 Subject: [Baren 11887] Re: SGC Conference charset="iso-8859-1" Well since it's not until 3/2001 I can say I'd love to go. We have not made three out of the last three trips because of some health problem but maybe this one.... Anyway, I'll be happy to plan to go. Keep going Maria. Bea Gold 2206 Micheltorena Street Los Angeles, CA 90039 (323) 660-0106 bnj50@earthlink.net http://www.beagold.com/ ------------------------------ From: "John and Michelle Morrell" Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:57:52 -0800 Subject: [Baren 11888] The past several Barens charset="iso-8859-1" Wow, people are really including a lot of stuff they didn't really mean to quote. I was dreading the backlog in my mailbox and discovered most of it was repetition. Good discussion on pricing and sales, though! Roy, check out http://Members.aol.com/WENET/home.html - for more on "white line" engraving. <^><^><^><^><^><^> Michelle Morrell jmmorrell@gci.net <^><^><^><^><^><^> ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V13 #1196 *****************************