Baren Digest Tuesday, 14 May 2002 Volume 19 : Number 1828 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Bull Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 22:17:40 +0900 Subject: [Baren 18043] Gallery with interesting prints ... http://www2.big.or.jp/~adel/sobi/sobi-E/sobi-E.shtml ... don't miss the prints in the 'Sale Rooms / Contemporary' section ... Dave ------------------------------ From: Cucamongie@aol.com Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:17:38 EDT Subject: [Baren 18044] restoration work Hi all, I have a friend who needs to have some art restored, does anyone know someone who does this in New York City? Thanks very much Sarah ------------------------------ From: "Maria Arango" Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:22:18 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18045] a simple trick With all these viruses (virii?) goin' round...here is a simple thing you can do that is the best way to: a) find out if you are infected and b) prevent further spread of the virus. Place an entry in your address book that will be the first entry, that is, use a name like "10101@..." Leave the part after the @ blank or put a dot or anything that will cause that address to be invalid. Now if a worm or virus should happen to infect you, it will attempt to send itself to all the addresses in your book starting with that invalid address and consequently be stopped dead. Additionally, you will get a message from your SMTP or "outbound mail" server that it attempted to deliver the message to 10101@... and could not. At that point you know you are infected but at least you did not spread to anyone else. Now you can go to the puter doctor and take a virus protection bath (that is, go to a virus protection site, find out how to remove the virus and perform the painful steps to remove it). And for crying out loud take that "preview" setting off the outlook program if you haven't already done so. This causes emails to be opened automatically. Have fun, Maria PS Back from the last festival of this spring season. Still alive! Looking forward to printing the 8 carved blocks that are awaiting (I can carve during art festivals but not print). Also looking forward to updating my website and showing you my new creations. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Maria Arango Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.1000woodcuts.com maria@mariarango.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> ------------------------------ From: Louise Cass Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:37:54 -0400 Subject: [Baren 18046] Re: Gallery with interesting prints ... Dave - The contemporary prints are gorgeous! but I'm curious as to techniques - -T.Tinoshita's GET BACK-61-y (Black Bird) looks more like an aquatint or even a litho than a woodcut (on my screen) and even the background texture of Ohnisi's 'Rasberry flowers' seems to have a very 'pebbly' grained texture!?? (The rest of the gallery will take a lot of time to view) Louise Cass At 10:17 PM 5/13/02 +0900, you wrote: >http://www2.big.or.jp/~adel/sobi/sobi-E/sobi-E.shtml > >... don't miss the prints in the 'Sale Rooms / Contemporary' section ... > >Dave > > > http://www.LCassArt.com ------------------------------ From: "Colleen Corradi" Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:38:19 +0200 Subject: [Baren 18047] etching presses Philip, I have seen that address where you build your own etching press, but I = am still not too convinced about it, so I am not buying the cd. I am still looking for a good press to buy, but need to make up my mind = as time is passing and I need one. have you build your press yourself? Colleen ------------------------------ From: "Philip Smith" Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:52:18 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18048] Re: etching presses No Colleen, I bought and etching press back in the days when I had some money. It's a Conrad Press. It cost about $2300.00 dollars. I think they are more these days. [What isn't]. It's a 24by48 bed size and I am very happy with it. It has a geared handle and is very easy to work. They make smaller sizes of course. They are called the Conrad Machine Co. Best Regards, Philip Hammond, OR USA ------------------------------ From: Charles Morgan Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:51:46 -0700 Subject: [Baren 18049] etching press Dan Patrick is back to building presses again, at least he built an etching press for me this spring. The quality is quite good, and the price was sure right! Mine has a bed of 18" x 36". The bed is composition (formica on both sides), not steel; the advantages are that it is light, does not rust, and is easily replaced if damaged. And if I feel the need for steel, I can go to a local machine shop and have them cut a steel bed for me. The upper roller is about 6.5" in diameter, and the lower roller is about 4" in diameter. It is not gear driven, but has a hand wheel that is 27" in diameter. I find that is plenty of torque. There are no pressure gauges, but I find it is easy to use a cheap torque wrench to set equal pressure on each side. You can get more than 2" clearance between the bed and the roller, so I use it for wood block prints with no trouble. I paid around $1,000.00 Canadian, which would be between $600.00 and $700.00 US. He built one for me, in part because he wanted the money to buy some new power tool himself. You can check with Dan to see if he will build you one. The worst that can happen is that he will say NO !!! I do not think Dan has a web site, but here is his contact information: Dan Patrick Box 142 Heriot Bay Quadra Island, B.C. V0P 1H0 CANADA phone: 250-285-2408 I could not find anything new near the size and quality of the press I got from Dan for anything like TWICE the price. The next thing in line I would suggest is Praga presses, which you can check out at their web site: www.praga.com. Good luck !!! Cheers ........ Charles ------------------------------ From: Mike Lyon Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 07:55:24 -0500 Subject: [Baren 18050] Re: Gallery with interesting prints ... Hi, Louise -- those woodcuts are nice, aren't they? That 'pebbly' grain has a name: "gomazuri" which means something like 'rice printing' -- a pretty close approximation to 'pebbly', I'd say! The other print (Black Bird) looks like a wood-cut to me! I bet this is a multi-block print, (possibly partially reduction) and I bet is was done mostly if not all with water colors... If you come to Baren's June, 2003 'Summit' in Kansas City, you'll meet a bunch of people printing that way! Mike At 04:37 PM 5/13/2002 -0400, you wrote: >The contemporary prints are gorgeous! but I'm curious as to techniques >-T.Tinoshita's GET BACK-61-y (Black Bird) looks more like an aquatint >or even a litho than a woodcut (on my screen) and even the background >texture of Ohnisi's 'Rasberry flowers' seems to have a very 'pebbly' grained >texture!?? >(The rest of the gallery will take a lot of time to view) >Louise Cass Mike Lyon mailto:mikelyon@mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V19 #1828 *****************************