Baren Digest             Saturday, 18 November 2000     Volume 13 : Number 1218


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From: Artsmadis@aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:29:56 EST
Subject: [Baren 12134] Re: Exhibition standards 

Someone at the mtsu message board is asking about a ball bearing baren.  I 
thought I saw an article at woodblock.com about making one but I cannot find 
it now.  Would someone else be able to answer the question?  The message 
board is 

http://www.mtsu.edu/~art/printmaking/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

Darrell




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From: ArtfulCarol@aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:32:40 EST
Subject: [Baren 12135] Re: Hand-carved chops 

Bareners:

For personalized hand-carved chops with Kenji characters equivalent to the 
sounds of your name:

supplycurve.com.     Click on Transglobal   ($65)

Made by a chopcarver in Chinatown ,SF  Am leaving today!
Jean Eger and I might try to find him.

Carol Lyons




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From: B Mason <bemason@concentric.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:49:27 -0800
Subject: [Baren 12136] SGC 

Hey Bareners:
We need to make reservations for rooms at the SGC conference as it seems
Austin Texas has another convention at the same time and rooms will fill
up fast. So far we have committments from Maria, Shireen, Myself and
maybe April and Wanda. I hear JD is coming also, but will need his own
room, being male and also probably bringing his sweet wife. Shall we get
a huge room together? Anyone else want to go to Texas March 7-11 for the
SGC?
If so, let me know so we can get rooms reserved. Would hate to be there
and have to stay 20 miles from the city. More fun to be able to walk to
everything. The cost for the conference is $150 and joining SGC, find
info here:    :http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/a_ah/sgc/index.html
The rooms are about $120 and up
OK, let either myself or Maria know. I will be flying (my arms already
hurt, just thinking about it) but Maria will drive. So we will have a
vehicle if we absolutely need it. Of course we will have to crowd in
with all Maria's prints and art fair stuff! Well, maybe not. I will be
arriving late on the 7th and leaving early on the 11th. Last year very
little happened the first and last day. The first day was just for
registration and the last day was sort of a free day.
Barbara
bemason@concentric.net

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:35:04 -0700
Subject: [Baren 12137] Re: My Oh My 

"Daniel L. Dew" wrote:
> My, have we grown quiet!
> As Dave said, no censorship, but that doesn't mean no conversation.
> I've got 9/10ths of my New Years card done, and I love it.
<snip>

Now just how do you get 9/10s of a card done? Leave a little corner
unprinted? Just joking - you are so far ahead of us procrastinators all
of the time. So is there a word for being too fast? "Johnny on the spot"
comes to mind, but doesn't seem to fit.

I like the idea of re-working old blocks. Sometimes, after we have been
working at woodblocks for a while (2 or 3 years in my case) we go back
and they look different somehow. Looking at them with a fresh eye, I
guess. Some of the multiple blocks could do better with an extra block
carved to fit in with the ones already done. Thanks for the idea, Dan.

Frankly, I have enjoyed reading Baren without strife, and without the
accidental html (or on purpose? heaven forbid!) that gets sent through.
I think everyone should subscribe to the digest version at least once,
just to see the messy thing with html coding included! Or better yet, be
the archivist for a while. You will soon get your act together, believe me.

Anxiously awaiting #7. I'm hoping all the prints will be as cheerful &
ironic as the few I have seen so far! Anybody got their #8 done? Or
started?  Besides Dan, of course.:-)

Has anyone else tried Yuri's Siberian Birch blocks yet? They really are
nice to carve. I'm working on a little black & white that promises to be
a pretty nice print when I'm done with it. How do you cross your fingers
on e-mail? X?

Have really been enjoying the discussion of editioning. I've tended to
be the one who prints part of them & saves the paper & notes - in case I
decide to print the rest of them. I don't seem to have any problems with
matching colors - but maybe I'm not as much a perfectionist as some of
you. :-)

Wanda




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From: "Maria Arango" <maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:19:59 -0800
Subject: [Baren 12138] your Baren-Suji charset="iso-8859-1" 

Hola folks,
'Bout that time of the year again to start thinking about YOUR next
Baren-Suji issue. As some of you know, it does take some amount of work to
put the thing together. However, I don't mind that as much as I feel that
the final product may be a bunch of: "Maria talking." Whether that is the
right feeling or not, I really would like the newsletter to be a compilation
of contributions from our diverse and rich membership, rather than a
compilation of what Maria thinks are neato things to learn about.
So what say you?

Here are some ideas to prime your encephalopump:
- -Interview another Baren member and introduce them to the membership, you
can do this by e-mail
- -Pick some material related to woodblock/woodcut that you particularly
enjoy, do a bit of research and put together an informative article for us
to marvel
- -Pick a new technique and do the same, although this time that section is
filled, there are plenty of opportunities in future issues
- -Interview yourself and skillfully talk about your own work humbly and in
the third person, I will never know the difference ;-)
- -Discover for us a fascinating historical fact about printmaking in your
country, about the history of exchanging prints, any of the history of
materials used in woodblock printmaking, their evolution, etc etc
- -Send us a humorous tid-bit or anecdote or joke about our lives as
printmaker/artists

200 minds are better than one! Let's make another great issue(s) to come.
Thanks to all,
Maria

<><><><><><><><><><><><>
Maria Arango, Printmaker
Las Vegas  Nevada  USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
maria@mariarango.com
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From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:50:15 -0500
Subject: [Baren 12139] Re: print site-Estonian printmaking charset="iso-8859-1" 

Darrel

What a great site. I got stuck there for over an hour and still did not get
to see it all. Wonderful woodblock prints and others as well. If you really
want a treat folks, go to; http://www.estograph.ee/ajalugu.shtml and enjoy
the trip. Oh, and click on pildid.

Thanks Darrel

Jeanne N.




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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:32:11 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12140] Re: edition size 

Thanks to everyone for their great discussion on this topic. I have a new found
appreciation for others point of view
on these sensitive issues and I certainly agree that is a subject best left to
ones personal situation and discretion.
For my water based prints, small edition sizes of 20-45 are best, as they are a
compromise that allows me to struggle, learn and work hard to achieve a somewhat
consistent batch while at the same time avoiding some of the difficulties I
would face if attempting a much larger edition at my present skill level.

I don't see much point in buying a xerox copy of anything related to art and I
am also not interested in selling anything I
do that way. For me the artist needs to have left his imprint on the
paper.....not on the "Start" switch. I need to have that personal connection.

I will be announcing a little later a web site where you can go and checkout the
postcard exchanges underway from the New Year Snakes and also from the
Printmakers list.

Julio







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From: "Cate Pfeifer" <Cate108@Earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:21:33 -0500
Subject: [Baren 12141] First Print charset="iso-8859-1" 

Hi Everybody,

I had the pleasure of making my first print yesterday.  I went to Kansas
City to Mike Lyon's studio with Linda Sampson-Talleur an art professor from
the University of Kansas.  I was supposed to have my blocks all done for
this tiger print but did not have the time to finish them.  When Linda and I
arrived, Mike was very welcoming and showed us around his studio.  It is
amazing and beautiful - it is a remodeled old warehouse with beautiful tiles
floors (in some places), a karate dojo, and inviting workspaces.  Mike did
most of the remodeling work himself.  Next, it was great fun to see examples
of both Linda's and Mike's work.  Mike's print collection sparked a very
stimulating discussion on technique and approaches to art.

After having a charming lunch with Mike's wife Linda and Wilbur Niewald (an
artist/art professor who taught both Mike and his mother painting at the
Kansas City Art Institute), we went back to the studio and received a
wonderful mini-workshop.  First Mike and Linda (Sampson-Talleur) helped me
finish carving the blocks (they were so helpful that we should all share the
credit for this print.).  Then we printed them.  Mike was very patient while
showing me the process - how to ink the blocks, how to move the baren, how
use the registration marks, how to hold the paper, etc.  It was very helpful
to see the steps.  Although I have read about this process and have seen
pictures of the steps, there is nothing like a being shown this process by a
teacher who knows what he is doing.  Questions and answers are so important
for learning.

Linda and I agreed on what a valuable experience this was.  We both enjoyed
ourselves completely.  This has been the best day I have had since I moved
to Kansas.

I have many things to do now to embrace Japanese woodblock printing.  I just
made my first order to McClain's.  I also need to finish carving the tiger
blocks and make some more prints.  Plus I need to plan and create the snake
new years cards.

Thank you Mike for your generous gifts of time, knowledge, energy, humor,
supplies, and encouragement.  Thank you Mike and Linda for all your work on
this print.  Thank you Baren for introducing us to each other.  Thanks you
Dave Bull for helping me post the tiger print on the show and tell board.

Check out the tiger at:
http://barenforum.org/messageboard/guestbook.html

Gee, this is fun!

Cate







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From: "jerelee" <jerelee@main.nc.us>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:29:20 -0600
Subject: [Baren 12142] Re: edition size charset="iso-8859-1" 

julio, I agree with you totally about using a Xerox machine to replicate
art. What absurdity! Art should be affordable for  the masses, unfortunately
it seems as if our labor involved in making prints is truely never quite
enough for the price tag. When artists put these extremly high prices on
their creations it excludes the average jane or joe from acquiring  a piece
of art.jerelee

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:23:20 -0700
Subject: [Baren 12143] Re: Ball Bearing Baren 

Artsmadis@aol.com wrote:
> Someone at the mtsu message board is asking about a ball bearing baren.  I
> thought I saw an article at woodblock.com about making one but I cannot find
> it now.  Would someone else be able to answer the question? 

That would be here, Darrell:

http://www.t0.or.at/~mikasch/ballen/ballbaren.htm

I went to the message board & read the posting - she wants to buy one,
and this page has directions on making one. Not sure where to buy one,
but April Vohlmer may know.

Wanda




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From: Bonnie Blitstein <BBlitstein@netscape.net>
Date: 18 Nov 00 03:16:17 PST
Subject: [Baren 12144] Re: print site-Estonian printmaking 

"Jeanne Norman Chase"  wrote:
> If you really want a treat folks, go to
> http://www.estograph.ee/ajalugu.shtml and enjoy
> the trip. Oh, and click on pildid.

Dear Jeanne

Boy are you right, I work a night shift and sometimes its slow, what
a delight to see such cool work....thanks for the recommendation.
I love the way the site is set up and what wonderful prints.
I will refer back to it often.
Bonnie



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