Baren Digest              Tuesday, 14 August 2001      Volume 16 : Number 1520


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From: John and Jan Telfer <jtelfer@iinet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 01 21:48:40 -0000
Subject: [Baren 15376] Re: Goma zuri 

To Jean, Gayle, Richard and April,
Thank you all for your help on Goma zuri.  I have it on my notepad to 
print out in its entirity and I have looked at the examples you have 
given me including your "Spider" print Gayle in Exchange 6 which I still 
had out from Krisitin's visit.

I may try your printing techniques April in a future exchange...it would 
make an interesting "sky" feature or crumpled fabric.

I have had lots and lots of favourable comments on my hand-out on 
Japanese Woodblock Printing to our Gallery Guides for the Monet & Japan 
Exhibition....so they did read it!!!


> Small World
Yes, isn't it, April.  I have passed on your brother Fred's name and 
friend, Amy to Kristin.
Many thanks,
Jan


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From: richard stockham <richardjs_2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:08:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 15377] Re: goma-zuri 

Jan,
  You asked:
> >
>
>http://www.hanga.com/landscape/yoshida/images/boy.jpg
> >
> Is the background "black" the example?  
 
As best I can reckon, this print has two 'goma-zuri'
impressions. The background is yellow. There is an
ochre 'goma-juri' impression. Then a second
'goma-zuri' impression appears to be either of burnt
umber or dilute sumi.
 
> I wish there were more
> copies of this book 
> "floating" around...it seems to be an encyclopedia
> for Hanga.

Marco put me on to this one. It is full of neat and
useful stuff. I have only begun to make enough
mistakes to appreciate how helpful it is. You can find
the entire text and many of the illustrations uploaded
on Dave Bull's site:        www.woodblock.com
Go to the library section and it is there. 

Yours,

Richard Stockham
Birmingham, Alabama

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From: richard stockham <richardjs_2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:36:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 15378] Re: goma-zuri 

- --- Alan Basist wrote:
> Can someone explain the goma-zuri effect and how
> it's done? Jerelee----

I just finished a print using 'goma-zuri' to give the
texture of concrete. It is easier if you have a large
surface. I used no paste. It is the 'beading' of the
ink on the block that gives the speckled effect. Light
baren pressure with multiple impressions gives a rich
texture and a sense of depth.

Yours,

Richard Stockham
Birmingham, Alabama

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From: "John Ryrie" <fieryryrie@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:03:17 +1000
Subject: [Baren 15379] munakata 

I have 4 small books on Munakata but I have seen a set of books, I think
there where 12 large books in the set so it was about the size of a set of
ensiclopedia.  It had his prints, Paintings, coligraphy and hundreds of
photographs of him at work, exhabitions etc.  I don,t remember who put this
out but it was a limited edition of about 200 copys werth thousans of
dollers.  It was called the compleet works of Munakata but it was printed
about two years befor his death so dosen't cover his last work.

John
Melbourne

> From: FOO KWEE HORNG <khfoo@moe.edu.sg>
> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 21:21:53 +0800 (WST)
> Subject: [Baren 15367] Munakata-Japanese Picasso?
>
> Thanks for replying Barbara. I would say that they were
> contemporaries though Picasso was about 20 years older. They do
> share much similarities; like folk art influence, mythological
> themes, prodigious output, eroticism in later years (if I did not
> get my facts wrong!). However, I think Picasso made only one
> woodcut; either in 1906 or 1908. Not much has been written about
> Munakata except for the one edited by Sori Yanagi. So far, I've
> found only 2 books on Munakata and a few others (Contemporary
> Japanese Prints) with a little on him. Any other sources from
> anyone out there?
>

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From: Printmaker <severn@acay.com.au>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:13:10 +1000
Subject: [Baren 15380] endangered species 

Hi all

Just been looking at the exchange #9 prints and was
wondering if the salon prints are also displayed somewhere.

It would be nice to see the list of exchanges annotated with
the theme so that those of us who cant remember can pick the
one they want by name as well as number. Also if there is
going to be an ongoing salon with each exchange it would
also be nice to link the salon exhibits to the same list

Is there somewhere I can access the salon list for flora
too?

Im working on my print. And as its spring here the subject
is constantly in my face and nose. I have a front lawn
carpeted with blooming fresias at the moment, the smell is
exquisite; and all the bush (forest) around here is blooming
with golden yellow wattle (mimosa) and pink boronia - both
of which also smell exquisite.

What is everyone doing for the flora theme?

josephine

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From: "Alan Basist" <abasist@buncombe.main.nc.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:21:55 -0500
Subject: [Baren 15381] Timely Swapping

Thanks for all the good info concerning goma zuri. Unknowingly I had created
this effect in my prints for the last #10 exchange and was quite pleased
with the outcome. This was my first experience doing a print exchange and it
was a challenge to juggle a new job,  caring for a cranky three year old,
managing our farm, sick cats, blah, blah, blah. In addition I sliced my
finger while cutting the images before being shipped off to our coordinator,
thus requiring the emergency room. No, I'm not requiring sympathy but I'm
asking Bareners who have participated in the exchanges, the yearly
postcards, and other Baren endeavors to get your  shit together and get your
prints sent in  within a designated time frame. If  I can do it and I
hustled for you guys, then you also can put in the same effort. Enough said.
Jerelee
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "richard stockham" <richardjs_2000@yahoo.com>
To: <baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:08 AM
Subject: [Baren 15377] Re: goma-zuri

> Jan,
>   You asked:
> > >
> >
> >http://www.hanga.com/landscape/yoshida/images/boy.jpg
> > >
> > Is the background "black" the example?
>
> As best I can reckon, this print has two 'goma-zuri'
> impressions. The background is yellow. There is an
> ochre 'goma-juri' impression. Then a second
> 'goma-zuri' impression appears to be either of burnt
> umber or dilute sumi.
>
> > I wish there were more
> > copies of this book
> > "floating" around...it seems to be an encyclopedia
> > for Hanga.
>
> Marco put me on to this one. It is full of neat and
> useful stuff. I have only begun to make enough
> mistakes to appreciate how helpful it is. You can find
> the entire text and many of the illustrations uploaded
> on Dave Bull's site:        www.woodblock.com
> Go to the library section and it is there.
>
> Yours,
>
> Richard Stockham
> Birmingham, Alabama
>
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From: ArtfulCarol@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:42:28 EDT
Subject: [Baren 15382] Re: Timely Swapping 

The kind of language Alan Basist  used is totally uncalled for  with a group 
such as ours!
Carol Lyons.

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From: FurryPressII@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:26:43 EDT
Subject: [Baren 15383] Re: endangered species 

cherry blosums and mt Fuji from old Japanese money.

john of the furry press

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