Baren Digest               Friday, 3 January 2003       Volume 22 : Number 2082


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From: <Philip238#copper.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:38:50 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20277] Re: water based inks 

Charles, 'cant locate that Lascaux site!
Could you tell me their web address please.
Thanks,
Philip

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From: Aqua4tis#aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:24:50 EST
Subject: [Baren 20278] Re: water based inks 


hi philip
here you go <A HREF="http://www.lascaux.ch/english/index.html">Lascaux - Coulours & Restauro</A>
http://www.lascaux.ch/english/index.html
georga 




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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon#mlyon.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 10:36:54 -0600
Subject: [Baren 20280] Re: SIGN-UP FOR EXCHANGE #16 IS OFFICIALLY OPEN !! 

At 06:39 PM 1/1/2003 -0200, Murilo wrote:

>I  have just signed-up  for 16 exchange (06.36PM Brazil time) 
>but  received answer that it was not opened yet. culd you tell me what's wrong?
>Thanks. Happy New year for all.
>Murilo, Brazil


Dear Murilo (and others)...

No, nothing is wrong!  I received your #16 sign-ups just fine.  I am in the 
middle of a week-long fast for the new year, so my mind feels clean, but it 
is running a bit slow (excuses, excuses)...  Anyway, I goofed when I added 
the list of names to the sign-up page yesterday afternoon -- so the "error" 
message was in error -- your registration really was received and I have 
corrected my error on the page -- I'll update the list with the new names 
in a few minutes so you can check to be sure your name is really there.
http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/exchange_sign-up.html

Thank you for your patience,

Mike


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

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From: "Robert Canaga Gallery" <rcg#robertcanagagallery.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:51:11 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20281] Re: water based inks 

http://www.lascaux.ch/

Try this one.
RC


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From: "Robert Canaga Gallery" <rcg#robertcanagagallery.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:55:30 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20282] Re: water based inks 

Sorry, I should have been more specific. The ref. to them is through Savoir
Faire, the importer.
RC

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From: Julio.Rodriguez#walgreens.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:26:09 -0600
Subject: [Baren 20283] Re: old goats & sheep 

Thanks to Jan T., John C. & Frank T. for sending their New Year prints, 
all arrived safely and in fine condition....

The exchange has been closed since 12/23 or abouts so the participants 
list up on the website is the final version. I will be putting up the 
print images on the web page as they arrive....

thanks to all and a Happy New Year for everyone.......Julio Rodriguez 

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From: "PHARE-CAMP,PATTI (HP-USA,ex1)" <patricia_phare-camp#hp.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:34:49 -0800 
Subject: [Baren 20284] RE: Baren Digest V21 #2080 

AMEN MARIA!  

What a scam those dam historians and collectors have perpetrated on us poor
artists!  We are the ones with all the skill, talent and hard work, and they
are the ones who get rich transferring their own psych: otic, osematic,
oligical quirks into our work and writing about it or reselling it at gross
profit.  Luckily congress enacted legislation to protect us living artists,
if a buyer resells a work at a profit, legally he/she is required to give a
percentage of the sale to the artist.  Of course enforcement could be an
issue, how many of us can afford lawyers to keep track of what happens to a
piece after we've sold it? And well, that legislation doesn't do much for
the dead...

As for changing paper...those same historians and collectors want us to
re-edition if we change paper...but you know what?  I too change paper
mid-run for the same variety of reasons that Maria stated, and I don't
re-edition, because rules are meant to be broken, especially bad rules!  And
I don't care what the "art bores" want.  Of course I do have to hold down a
job, but I also get to do the art I want to do any old way I want to do it
and I don't have to worry about consistency of style, medium, subject
matter, etc...I just experiment to my hearts content;-)

As for the above art bores...that's what their theories and analysis have
done to art education, made it so unbearably boring that the average schmoe
sleeps through the art survey class and later in life blows his wages on a
(horrors) "Kincaid" (does anyone, other than critics actually, READ "Art
Today?"

...and if I have to read another "spiritual" 3 page art statement written to
please the above critics...my lunch may rise...I like the way Dan Dew does,
give 'em a scriptural reference and let 'em look it up for themselves, or
not...in my read-so-many-statements-that-they-all-sound-alike opinion, the
less said the more I get out of the work.  With one exception, when we
exchange prints, I really love getting write up on the process, such
technical information from artist to artist helps to understand the work on
a much deeper level, I think.  Come to think of it, the average schmoe may
think so as well!  

I love to read about what kinds of wood you used, what kind of inks, papers,
problems you encountered and maybe resolved during the process and I bet the
potential buyer would also be interested.  

Besides, if I were any good at writing...well heck that's a lot more
lucrative than the visual arts and authors get the moola while alive, even
the mediocre ones...alas I have to work with the God given talents whether
they pay or not! Thank God Mom made sure I learned how to type!

I hope you all have a very blessed and prosperous New Year full of new and
extrawondermus ideas and inspiration!

Patti P-C

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From: "MPereira" <mpereira#newsite.com.br>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 18:49:15 -0200
Subject: [Baren 20285] Re: SIGN-UP FOR EXCHANGE #16 IS OFFICIALLY OPEN !!

Dear Mike,

Thank you for your attention.
This time (this exchange) I promise you will receive my prints in time.
Best wishes and a good year to all .
Murilo, Brasil.





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From: Julio.Rodriguez#walgreens.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:40:18 -0600
Subject: [Baren 20286] Re: Call for entries........  


No..it's not what you think...but I bet I got your attention !!!!

Is time to put together another Barensuji newsletter to press..... I'll be 
taking in articles, photos, book reviews, artist's interviews, views of 
your studio, views of your neighbor's backyard, new art news, old art 
news, ANY kind of news you want published....does not have to be formal or 
even speelchekd...we have a large group of dedicated folks that take care 
of making it all pretty for you. 

So come one, come all, come all ye faithful and send me your contributions 
off-list for the next Barensuji.......

xanks.....Julio Rodriguez 

ps...deadline...up or about 01/15/03

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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon#mlyon.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:18:40 -0600
Subject: [Baren 20287] Exchange #16 almost full... 

At last count, there were 28 signed up for Exchange #16...  Only two spots 
left before the waiting list begins growing -- if you want to get in on 
this one, you'd better 
hurry!  http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/exchange_sign-up.html is the place!

- -- Mike


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

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From: "marilynn smih" <marilynnsmih#hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:12:04 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20288] Re: Baren Digest V21 #2080 

I am a painter turned into printmaker.  I used watercolor for monotypes and 
I used createx.  both of these mix colors together beautifully on a pallette 
and paint like a painting onto an acrylic plate very well.  I use gum arabic 
as a release agent.  Akua Kolor is beautful pigment.  I have successfully 
rolled it on a plate and printed it beautifully.  It did not mix like paint 
and if you do monotypes by way of mixing colors first it will not mix as 
well as createx.  But Akua Kolor pigment is stronger and higher in quality.  
For the block printer I would suggest giving Akua Kolor a try and for 
monotype use dish soap or glycerin as a release agent. I know this is not 
purely woodblock info, sorry.  If you work monotypes by way of layering in 
colors and drawing in lines and not mixing a pigment on a pallette than you 
truly want Akua Kolor and Susan rostow is a lovely person who will always be 
very helpful.
Marilynn Smith


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From: ArtfulCarol#aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:42:50 EST
Subject: [Baren 20289] Re: Baren Digest V21 #2080 

Hi 
Several responses:

1. For a link to  paper and art supplies including Savior Faire:
    Billfisher.dreamhost.com/supplies

2. Nancy, you ask why a person would want to change papers part-way through 
an edition--  Experimentation, Curiosity, Fun!!

3. Sarah, thanks for the AkuaKolor info.   I have it and use it.  

Have I told you lately?--Happy New Year!
Carol Lyons
Irvington, NY

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From: Aqua4tis#aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:18:21 EST
Subject: [Baren 20290] Re: Akua kolor 



sarah
   which do you like better for hanga? guerra or akua color?
georga



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From: "Maria Diener (aka Arango)" <maria#mariarango.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:45:24 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20291] pieces here, pieces there 

Puzzle updates!
The first brave puzzle piece that braved the seven seas has arrived to
Australia! Wow, I'm very excited. Almost all the pieces have found their
temporary homes now. If some of you have received your piece and have not
emailed me yet, please do so and tell me the number on the back of your
block. And ALL of you, thanks for playing and thank you for your notes; I
apologize if I don't answer all of them individually.

On yet another puzzling development, the puzzle page has been updated with
photos. WARNING! If you want to keep the final design a surprise until the
end, don't go look. Really the matrix should make no difference at all in
your design, won't help either.
http://www.1000woodcuts.com/puzzle/project.html click on photo album and go
get a cup of tea if you have a slow modem/connection, many largish pictures.

On an unrelated event, Vegas survived the New Year celebrations; 300,000
people from all over came to celebrate on our famed Strip. I spent the night
trying to explain to the wolfie-pups that the entire world was NOT on fire
and there was no need to stampede to the lake.

Maria

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     Maria Arango
     Peace in 2003
  Las Vegas Nevada USA
  www.1000woodcuts.com
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From: Sharri LaPierre <Barebonesart#attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:40:18 -0800
Subject: [Baren 20292] Re: Baren Digest V21 #2081 

Today herds of Old Goats thundered into my mailbox.  Thank you, John, 
what a nice gift and wonderful way to start the new year.  Every time I 
go near these two critters the smell of ink causes  a tremendous impulse 
to race to the studio and print - and then I remember my studio is torn 
to bits waiting for carpenters to come and finish their chores.  
Hopefully, that will be soon and my little goats can frolic off to 
mailboxes, too, but I guarantee they will not be as grand as the Furry 
ones.

Sharri


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