Baren Digest             Saturday, 3 February 2001     Volume 14 : Number 1307


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From: GWohlken <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:56:07 -0500
Subject: [Baren 13243] Re: Baren Digest v14 #1305 

Hey Julio on your list of Baren exhibits you forgot we are on the docket
for July and August of 2002--the combined Sacred Tree/Endangered Species
Exhibit at the Meyer's Nature Center at Big Creek of the Geauga County
Park System in Chardon, Ohio.  Any of our Baren prints that will work
for the endangered species theme as regarding nature will be exhibited.

Since it's 2002 maybe it shouldn't be considered on the list, but it's
certainly scheduled with the park. 

Gayle

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From: Cucamongie@aol.com
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:26:20 EST
Subject: [Baren 13244] monkey prints 

barbara patera wrote:
<<Have you posted your prints? Would love 
to see em but live on the other side of the country.
 Is Troy near Rochester???? Seems I remember it is... 
will mention the show and gallery to my brother... He 
lives there(Rochester) and collects wildlife 
prints....mostly loons though.>>
Barbara, I looked at a map and Rochester seems quite a ways away from 
Troy..., 
the 3 Squirrel Monkeys print is up on my site, www.sarahhauser.womanmade.net, 
the other two prints aren't up there, but I'll see if I can get a scan 
together of them, or I'll find out if the gallery will have them on their 
website at some point.  
on another monkey-like note for those interested [WARNING, NOT A WOODBLOCK 
TOPIC :)], Jane Goodall will be lecturing at the Museum of Natural History a 
week from Saturday (and hosting some other much more pricey events on that 
weekend), I'll be there for sure!
thanks all,
Sarah

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From: "Jeanne Norman Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:12:58 -0500
Subject: [Baren 13245] Re: Troy, NY anyone? charset="iso-8859-1" 

Congratulations Sarah

It is wonderful to hear news of anyone in the Baren who has achieved any
honors such as entries in shows, solos, prizes, etc.
Keep on with all that talent, Sarah!!!!!

Jeanne N.



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From: b.patera@att.net
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:06:03 +0000
Subject: [Baren 13246] Sarah'smonkeys 

Sarah,

Visited your site. Loved the three spider monkeys... can 
hardly wait to see the others. Have to say that a visit 
to your site makes me feel happy... your prints lift the 
spirit.

Barbara P.


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From: heather nichols <pinefeather@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:19:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 13248] thank you maria 

thanks so much maria for the clean up step by step.. I
loved it! I am heading to my friendly walmart store
today!!! :)

ps.. I have also used baby oil to remove eye makeup...
and I can still see!!!

heather

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From: barebonesart <barebonesart@home.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 16:27:58 -0800
Subject: [Baren 13249] Re: Baren Digest v14 #1305 

Okay - here comes another pitch for Green Drop Inks (aka AquaGraphic Ink:
all water base) - they are terrific and can be used for intaglio or relief -
just modify them with their tack reducer or some Calcium Carbonate,
depending on whether you need to loosen or stiffen. I'll bet they can be
used for hanga, tho I have not tried them. You only need to buy one ink to
do all printmaking processes: http://safeink.com. A trip to their website
will answer all your questions. They really do clean up with just soap and
water - easily and quickly - I promise. I don't know if they send out free
samples, but I have emailed them to see if this is possible.
Sharri
PS - For those of you in the Snake exchange: they were printed intaglio with
Green Drop Inks.

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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:53:22 -0600
Subject: [Baren 13250] Re: Snakey pooo 02/02/2001 08:50:51 PM 

A few more snakes up on the site:

http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/snakes/


Thanks...................Maria, Greg, Sylvia (#2), Josephine, Gayle and Bridget.........

Julio


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From: "John and Michelle Morrell" <jmmorrell@gci.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:37:48 -0900
Subject: [Baren 13251] Baby Oil (Mineral Oil) charset="iso-8859-1" 

For my 2 cents:

Gerald wrote:
>And Maria - baby oil is not designed to go on your baby's bottom. It is
>designed to make money out of waste products from the manufacture of
>petrol. It is not good for your skin or your baby's. Among other things
>it leaches vitamin E out of the skin.

That is the strangest thing I have ever heard, but hey-- to each his own!

M

I don't know about leaching vitamin E, but mineral oil is terrible stuff in
my book.  Most cosmetics seem to have it as do most lotions.  I simply
cannot tolerate it.  Glycerin is the only moisturizer I can resort to in my
dry old age.  Gerald is just stating my long-held suspicions.   But with
cotton-lined rubber gloves and good ventilation, mineral spirits, mineral
oil, who cares?

<^><^><^><^><^><^>
    Michelle Morrell
   jmmorrell@gci.net
<^><^><^><^><^><^>


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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:54:46 -0600
Subject: [Baren 13252] Re: I did it "My Way" 02/02/2001 10:54:35 PM 

Here's a favorite quote from a printmaking classic that makes as much sense
today as it did some sixty years ago :

"The old masters have left us a number of unsuccessful as well as
successful prints. Through these they have given us valuable hints and have
left the precious results of their struggles. However, such helps are not
enough; they have not satisfied all of my wants. Consequently, I have
devised many new methods and ways of achieving the ends I have had in view,
Of course, it is hoped that what I have been able to devise will be of some
help and guidance to those who wish to engage in or to continue the work of
print-making. But it is equally natural that some should find these hints
inadequate for their purposes, insufficient to enable them to cope with the
problems they have to face. They may find it necessary to devise still more
new ways and means for their own purposes. At the same time some may find
quite useless all this that I have found indispensable. These may go on
without paying any attention to my findings. These two groups of people -
those who find my suggestions inadequate, and those who regard them as
useless - are both quite in accord with my own views: they are both in a
state of mind similar to mine. They should feel quite independent and free
to devise ways and means to meet their own needs. After all, it is like
painting - this art of colour printing. Each artist is entitled to work in
his own way."


xanks.....Julio




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From: BBlitstein@netscape.net (Bonnie Blitstein)
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:09:02 -0500
Subject: [Baren 13253] Re: Baby Oil (Mineral Oil) 

Mineral spirts are toxic and people should care about the products
used to clean as they are returned to the garbage and ultimately
to the land...Yeah we should care....toxicity in the workshop causes
liver damage, lung cancer, etc...there is a great and wonderful new
effort in printmaking to create non-toxic work environment for printmakers...yes who cares everyone should care... if a person is a printmaker for many years the elements in the toxic substances build up
and suprise you are one dead printmaker and yes, and yes again there are
documented cases of printmakes dropping dead from the use of toxic materials in their shops. Please do not be uneducated about the materials used for printmaking. Really Health is wealth and to all many wonderful years of printmaking.

I think the point about mineral oil is that it degrades the surface of
lino and rubber brayers...vegetable is a safe and inexpensive natural way
to clean oil based inks off ...period...we use vegetable oil as
a non-toxic alternative to toxic cleaners at the Manhattan Graphics Center
Yes Mineral oil is a petrol product 

In a previous reponse that I made to the mention of Mineral oil
I indicated that I wasn't sure how it degrades lino or rubber brayers
and still have confirm how it does it  but other people in the shop has agreed...mineral oil is not a good quality cleanser....

So there are all kinds of reponses to the use of mineral oil but
really bottom line it is not the best item to use when working
with our wonderful printing processes ...that's all folks....

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