Baren Digest             Tuesday, 13 November 2001     Volume 17 : Number 1616


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From: "Jean Eger Womack" <jeaneger@jeaneger.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:31:54 -0800
Subject: [Baren 16133] Re:   Baren Digest V17 #1615 

Thanks to the baren powers, like Bea and Michelle, I got my 31 prints of a
Nicotiana flower done today.  I thought printing in oil based ink would be
fastest, but after I printed a couple, I realized it would be a lot faster
to just print with rice paste and sumi ink, so that's what I did.  I used
Rives heavyweight and it took the ink very nicely.  It needed two
impressions but still has some blotchy marks and goma zuri.  Well, that just
adds to the charm, I think.  I was working so hard that I missed Dave's
nightly web cam, darn it.  Now I'd better pay some bills and clean the
house.

Jean Eger Womack



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From: David Bull <davebull@woodblock.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:04:39 +0900
Subject: [Baren 16134] Re: Jean's nightly visit to Dave ... 

Jean wrote:

> I was working so hard that I missed Dave's
> nightly web cam, darn it. 


It's an interesting feeling having that webcam up and running during a
couple of the working sessions each day. I basically forget about it,
and certainly don't have any feeling that somebody is 'looking over my
shoulder'.

But then when I check the website logbooks, and see that 30+ people are
dropping in most days - most for just a short time, some for longer - I
realize that the lens up there on the shelf looking down on me, really
_is_ looking!

But hey Jean, get your own work done first!

Dave

P.S. The "Where's Boots" webcam 'contest' has already had winners, and
it was only announced yesterday ...  Details on the Woodblock Webcam
page:

http://woodblock.com/webcam


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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:24:51 -0600
Subject: [Baren 16135] Re: quiet times 11/12/2001 05:24:49 PM 

Barbara writes:
"...Sort of makes talking about ink and paper and carving seem
unreal. I think that a lot lately, life has taken on a sort of ethereal
haze."

Another tragic event today to make us all just a bit more uneasy. Two
hundred & fifty-six lives plus lost. In this day of
media hype, constant bombardment of tragic news and death.......how real
does a tragedy of this magnitude seem
to any of us ?

I am beginning to enjoy printmaking for its self-healing qualities. Not
sure how to explain it, but the time I spend working the wood, cutting the
paper, printing the images...is all very "real" time to me....is just me,
working away...at peace...(except when I get those darn emails telling me
to get my print done & mailed!) ...no tv,  no "bad" news....just terribly
at peace with myself and the task at hand.... somewhat isolated from the
rest of the world....uhmmm? except for this here baren-world...a Walden
pond of sorts...with all it's "life" and variety....

Of course, unlike many of you here, I am not a printer, or a carver....not
much......what little printing I do is sporadic and not often enough to
make great progress or to truly take me away from the day to day ramblings
of 2001....I feel for the lives lost today but I think I will not watch tv
tonight.......I'll find a good book to read instead.

Here at two beauties I like to share:

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is
something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice
and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you
were never made for." R.W.E.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsense." R.W.E.

and a funny one:

"Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. " Confucious


thanks...Julio (Skokie, Illinois)




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