Baren Digest Saturday, 15 December 2001 Volume 17 : Number 1655 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "April Vollmer" Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:24:23 -0500 Subject: [Baren 16491] Digesting Images Mike, I think you sent your information for Carol on GIFs vs JPEGs to us all in error. Of course the digest can't digest images, so more code. But I did enjoy reading your clear description of the issue. A well designed website is like a well designed woodcut, efficient and to the point. (Though I suppose we all find woodcut technique more interesting!) Could you recommend any books on website design, since you seem to have a good grasp? I have help with my site, but would like to understand the issues better. best, April www.aprilvollmer.com ------------------------------ From: "G. Wohlken" Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:05:57 -0500 Subject: [Baren 16492] Baren Exhibits Barbara, another coming exhibit is the combined Endangered Species (Baren)/Sacred Trees ( Print Australia) at the Geauga Park District's Meyer's Center in Chardon, Ohio during July and August 2002. >......let me know if I missed other showing of our works. ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:29:02 -0600 Subject: [Baren 16493] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1654 At 10:00 PM 12/14/2001 +0900, you wrote: >From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com >Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:18:13 -0600 >Subject: [Baren 16490] Re: New site for New Year Horse exchange list >12/13/2001 06:18:12 PM > >Sorry for the multiple posts today.... > >Here is a new site that has the signup list for the horse exchange, I have >updated it with all who sent >me private emails. If I missed someone, please let me know.... > >http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/horsesite.html > > >thanks...Julio Thank you for doing this, Julio ! Mike Mike Lyon mailto:mikelyon@mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:18:37 -0600 Subject: [Baren 16494] Re: a "collectors" point of view... 12/14/2001 02:18:36 PM Georgia Garside and Pete Walls information from the original horse list has been updated. Please verify your files. My thanks to Frank Trueba for providing the source for the new list after the original website came down a few days ago. http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/horsesite.html Bobbi writes: "Do most print buyers buy them because they think they'll be a good investment or because they want something to hang on the wall and stare at--something to decorate their home?" I'll take my printmaking hat off for a while and put on my "collectors" cap. Not only do I enjoy making woodblock prints but also I enjoy collecting prints that "I like". Over the course of the last five years I have bought a number of prints which I truly really enjoy to have. Many have been purchased from ebay and/or other online auction houses but some come directly from other printmakers, many here on Baren. I also of course check out the estate sales and numerous garage sales in my area. The most I have paid for a print has been $175 for a beautiful japanese temple scene by Koitsu, this I purchased at an auction house just blocks away from my home. The least I paid for was a b&W print for $5.00 on ebay. My "purchased" prints collection currently has over 100 prints, most of them turn of the century japanese including many samples of Shin Hanga and Sosaku Hanga. There are some fine copies of Hiroshige, Harunobu and Hokusai that go back to the Meiji period. I am particularly interested in the Kacho-e (bird & flowers) genre and also some of the fine work done at the turn of the last century in Kuchi-e (prints folded and included as a bonus within books). I have purchased works from other bareners. Also I collect David Bull's Surimono albums which serve a dual purpose. Not only do I get some beautiful prints to admire and collect, but also I get to be part of a continuing tradition in japanese printmaking, with the prints serving as a lesson plan of sorts for my ongoing education as a printmaker. The traditional techniques, style and high detail quality of printing that David does is a lost art, sadly, even in Japan, only a few people remain capable of such work. Most recently I have obtained a set of 55 prints from a bijin-ga (beautiful women) series done in 1903 by an artist named Yugawa Shodo. These prints are all oban size and belong to an original set of 100 prints titled "100 Beauties in Daily life" done in Osaka. The amount of detail and delicate carving of hair and facial features is beyond description, I find myself having to look at them with a magnifying glass to be able to appreciate the fine intricate work. My "exchange" prints collection currently has over 350 prints. By the time spring comes around that number will be closer to 450 prints. These prints have been obtained thru the many exchanges I have participated during the last four years...Baren exchanges #1 thru #12 and side exchanges from Print Australia and other venues. If I count in the many cards from New year exchanges and other stuff..the number easily goes over 500 prints. Of course these are all "new" prints, done by current artists, many of the regulars right here on this Baren forum. They are a combination of works by beginners and professionals, with a diverse grouping of techniques and interpretations. I love them just as much as I love my "other" collection. So, what do I do with all these prints ? For one thing....one very important thing....I try to share them with others. I share new purchases or exchanges with family and friends at work. I have also had two exhibitions of Baren exchanges at the local library...each show displaying over a hundred prints and representing the work of as many as seventy five woodblock printmakers. Also I have taken some to school to share with my son's grade school class. Most importantly, I enjoy them and learn from them. This is important to me so I can become a better printmaker. Many of them have graced the walls of my humble home. Currently I have a couple of prints by David Stones on display in our family room, a very large work by Maria Arango over our piano and works by Carol Lyons, Josephine Severn, Ray Hudson and other bareners in other areas of the house. Not sure what these prints are worth, I am not too worry about appreciation or which current bareners will become "collectable" in the future. The prints will fend for themselves I hope. They are not for sale at this time...I am having too much "fun" with them...and only time will tell how future generations will look and appreciate them. thanks........Julio ------------------------------ From: Printmaker Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:09:10 +1100 Subject: [Baren 16495] More on Exhibitions Hi Everyone Isn't Julio wonderful? Thankyou for the new horse page and the list of exhibitions, Julio. Blame it on synchronicity if you like, but I've just posted a similar permanent listing of Print Australia exhibitions and exchanges at http://www.acay.com.au/~severn/imp/imp.htm Note some of these are exhibitions containing work from both PA and Baren exchanges. I thought I'd mention it while you were updating your records. Josephine ------------------------------ From: Kim Medina Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 23:42:31 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Baren 16496] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1648 I am totally with Bobbi concerning the "uneducation" of the educated artists in universities. I too was told that the only way to make a living as a printmaker (specifically) was to go to grad school and become a teacher. And I was not told this some 20 years ago, this was 1997, the year I graduated with my BFA. Talk about a viscious loop! Maria has been an inspiration to me because she seems to buck the system and the majority opinion of professors in the university setting. In this aspect, life at university truly is a vacuum! People can't afford to go to school simply to _learn_ anymore. Even the artists need to know how to make a living after graduation, probably more so than any other major. Kim Medina Tucson, Arizona -------------------------------- From: "Eva Pietzcker" Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:31:51 +0100 Subject: [Baren 16497] thank you! Thank you, Barbara, Julio and Graham for your very detailed answers on my woodblock-ink-questions!!! I have to say that it was an overwhelming experience to get such kind of help. There are many things I will try now. I will follow your advice, Barbara and search the encyclopedia. I allready visited your website, Graham, and found many interesting things there. Yours sincerely, Eva (and Miriam) ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V17 #1655 *****************************