Baren Digest               Friday, 29 March 2002       Volume 18 : Number 1781


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From: "marilynn smih" <marilynnsmih@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:16:07 -0800
Subject: [Baren 17731] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1780 

I am impressed with your responses on lighting.  My sweetie who will be 
doing the remodel now asked and what about halogen?  I understand it is more 
costly to buy, but to run I understand it is less costly.  Would this be an 
even better choice? I can do my own research, but geez you guys know a lot.
Thanks, Marilynn



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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:36:33 -0600
Subject: [Baren 17732] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1780 

Whatever incremental savings per lumen in electricity will never offset the 
higher cost of replacement bulbs and your original investment.  But the 
quality of lighting can be much greater.  If it's general lighting, I 
prefer high frequency ballast daylight color florescent.  If it's best 
quality spot lighting, or good looking retail set-up, check out low-voltage 
specialty lighting -- TONS of options!  You'll still have to do your own 
research.

Mike

At 08:16 AM 3/28/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>I am impressed with your responses on lighting.  My sweetie who will be 
>doing the remodel now asked and what about halogen?  I understand it is 
>more costly to buy, but to run I understand it is less costly.  Would this 
>be an even better choice? I can do my own research, but geez you guys know 
>a lot.
>Thanks, Marilynn
>



Mike Lyon
mailto:mikelyon@mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com 

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From: John Amoss <amoss@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:42:50 -0800
Subject: [Baren 17733] dyes and salter book 

Hello all-
I have a water-based question I've been carrying around with me for some
time:
Who here has experience concerning printing with dyes, specifically Dr.
Martin's?

I think that April V. has and am very interested in her and other's opinions
about lightfastness and how it interacts with the wood grain. In addition,
does anyone use calcium carbonate to make pigments more opaque?

Also, I highly recommend Rebecca Salter's "Japanese Woodblock Printing"
book. I was very surprised at the depth of information and think that it is
best thing written since the two Yoshida classics.

Thanks!
- -John Amoss


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amoss illustration, inc.
365 ponderosa dr. athens, ga 30605
706.549.4662 f: 706.549.3962
amoss@mindspring.com
http://www.mindspring.com/~amoss



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From: "Maria Arango" <maria@mariarango.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:54:33 -0800
Subject: [Baren 17734] RE: lights  


> I am impressed with your responses on lighting.  My sweetie who will be
> doing the remodel now asked and what about halogen?  I understand
> it is more
> costly to buy, but to run I understand it is less costly.  Would
> this be an
> even better choice? I can do my own research, but geez you guys
> know a lot.
> Thanks, Marilynn


I think the consensus was that incandescent and halogen burn HOT. In
constructing the studio we extended the air conditioning ducts to the former
garage which make the place very livable but about 8 degrees F hotter or
colder than the house in summer and winter respectively. For this reason and
our lovely 115 F summers, I didn't want anything else producing heat in the
studio. I also use linseed oil and sometimes wood finishing products that
get a bit dangerous under incandescent spotlights.

My choice, like Mike Lyon, was a combination of fluorescent for general
lighting and track lights for spot lighting. I have two 4-bulb fluorescent
units somewhat centered in the studio (640 sq. feet). I invested in white
glass covers that help diffuse the light further and make a nice trap for
moths. I will probably at some point add two more 4-bulb units. Meantime, I
have two track light units over my cutting area and an additional magnifying
desk lamp over the engraving area which I never use. I like the track lights
because they can be directed to light whatever I want.
I use fluorescent day-light balanced bulbs on everything, even the track
light unit. Man, those suckers are expensive but have outlasted the former
incandescent by well over a year and still going. I still need additional
light over my framing area, thus the need for an additional fluorescent
unit, but right now I make do with a $12 shop light (also fluorescent).

Having said all that, in the daytime I usually work by the natural light of
one very large West-facing window and two standard South-facing windows with
all lights off. I know North light is better, but the house is attached to
the North of the studio and my husband put his foot down when I suggested to
move the house out of the way. I'm working on him on the skylight issue.
I used to work in a gloomy 10' x 9' extra bedroom with a single bulb lamp,
so really you can go all out or do with what you got. The important thing is
in doing.

Maria

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Maria Arango
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
maria@mariarango.com
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From: "Philip Smith" <SmithArt@Pacifier.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:02:25 -0800
Subject: [Baren 17735] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1780  

Marilyn,....I like my halogen lamp a lot. Just be careful when you change
bulbs, wear some rubber gloves, the oil from your hands will drastically
shorten the life of that bulb.
Good luck,
Philip
Hammond, OR
USA

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From: barebonesart <barebonesart@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:48:45 -0800
Subject: [Baren 17736] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1780 

Marilyn,
Incandescent lighting tends to turn everything yellow, so it is definitely
not a good choice for working in color.  If your work is black and white,
then no problem.  Yes, there are a variety of choices in flourescent
lighting and a visit to your local lighting store will confuse you even
further. The "color corrected" would, of course, be the tube of choice if
your bank account can handle it. The next best choice is to go with even
distribution of cold and warm, one tube of each per fixture if its a tube
tuber; every other tube in any event. It works very well.

On the process colors - I'm sure Dean is right, after all he is our resident
expert. I think where I ran into trouble with them, and this was about 7
years ago, so I'm sure they're improved, was mixing them to ultra
transparency. They faded to nadda within three years, and the work was not
hanging in direct sunlight (lest anyone think I am airhead enuf to do
that:>)  So, I would still be very, very careful in altering the
consistency, even today. Maybe I should launch a scientific experiment - I
had one going once on Dove Bars compared to Haagen Daz: which is better. The
results were inconclusive, research is on-going.
Sharri



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From: John and Jan Telfer <jtelfer@iinet.net.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 02 15:57:20 -0000
Subject: [Baren 17737] Re: Lighting 

Dear Mike,

I couldn't help but comment....


>Light from a north facing window is traditionally considered best -- this 
>is because the indirect North light doesn't change so much as light from 
>South, East, or West as the sun sweeps across the sky.  The color is more 
>constant, too.


Even South of the Equator, Down Under, the north facing window is 
traditionally the best here too and it is suggested that our living room, 
and activity rooms face north.  So even though it travels over the "hump" 
of the Equator, the north sun is stronger here and in winter lower in the 
sky so it reaches further into the home.

....an Easter carrot!

Happy Easter,

Jan
Perth, Western Australia. 

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From: "David Stones" <stones@mb.i-chubu.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 06:12:51 +0900
Subject: [Baren 17738] Re: The Real and Virtual  

Dear All,

A bit of advertising... but also feedback... Discussions were had
on [Baren] re woodblock prints/the Internet. These were just as
I'd opened my website, so I'd no feedback to offer.

Then I had an e-mail from Germany... three months later an 
agreement. Now, anyone who can visit galleries in Paris, 
Munich or Wuppertal (in Germany) or to one in New York, 
will be able to see 20 of my prints - shown over a month,
starting April 4th. The New York event will also be the gallery's
first exhibition... so a nice introduction in the Big Apple. 

Details, with a website link, for these "overseas" events are at: 
http://www.i-chubu.ne.jp/~stones/index_e.html
Just click on "Click here for recent exhibition". 

Feedback? While not being at the galleries myself, it's an 
opportunity to show my style of the woodblock craft, 
further than I could alone. Being a mixture of the real and 
the virtual is also the idea, so the 20 prints will also be (shown 
and for sale) on a website... Fitting in, but unconnected to, a 
5-artist show I've organised here in Japan... April's a busy month.

Regards to all, real and virtual,

Dave S (Ishita)
http://www.i-chubu.ne.jp/~stones/ 


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From: Dan Dew <ddew0001@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:42:44 -0500
Subject: [Baren 17739] Re: The Real and Virtual  

David, help, I don't read whatever language that is!
I would love to 

> Just click on "Click here for recent exhibition".

but I cn't figure out where that is.
help.   [:-P] 

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Daniel L. Dew
ddew0001@tampabay.rr.com
ddew@tampabay.rr.com
http://www.dandew.com
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