Baren Digest              Tuesday, 21 January 2003      Volume 22 : Number 2103


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From: "kate courchaine" <katecourchaine#hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 05:45:05 +0000
Subject: [Baren 20500] Re: Baren Digest V22 #2101 

Hi All,
Well I am happy to say my #15 prints are at Kat's house!  Their making was 
not without challenge.  This is also my first time printing Moka Hanga.

The biggest challenge was ink application.  OK I will admit that I did wing 
it a bit.  I used archival wheat paste for my thickener instead of rice, and 
used gouche for pigment.  For brushes I used stiff oil paint flats for 
transferring the color and a couple of the 'flat type' hanga (I think) 
spreading brushes as well as a hardware store throw-away  natural bristle 
brush that worked as well or better then the 'flat hanga' brushes.  It was 
very difficult to get a even distribution of color.  It seemed like either 
there were brush stroke marks or if I used more color that it threatened to 
get mushy and squish into places where it shouldn't.  I suspect my paste may 
have been a bit thick, and my brushes could have been better.  Also the 
color did not penetrate the paper as deeply as I thought it would.  I looks 
like hanga on the front, but I thought you would see it a little color 
through the back of the paper too.

All in all, it was neat to try out this method and a exchange was just the 
thing to motivate me.  Will definitely be trying this again.  Cant wait to 
see every ones prints!

Best, Kate Courchaine




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