Baren Digest Sunday, 29 June 2003 Volume 23 : Number 2281 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "aimee" Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:38:41 -0800 Subject: [Baren 21997] RE: Baren Digest V23 #2278 Hello to all, and especially all the lovely people I met in kansas city---I made the long trip back to alaska with wonderful memories &images & such profound respect for the effort it takes to produce hanga! My limited experience with inks made me appreciate how complex this process is--it is so much easier to squeeze a tube of color, roll a board, press on through.....It seems there are so many more possibilities in hanga for messing up! AIEEE! It was humbling to watch Marco practicing the blue gradations (sorry, I know there's a japanese word for it; my language abilities are stretched just trying to talk sense in english..)--practicing and practicing for days.....And then the opportunity to watch David so graciously pass on what 20+ years have taught him about SO MANY things....whew! A lot to absorb! I return to my little 5'x 13' studio with the resolve to get me a roll of newsprint and plan on stoking my woodstove this winter with it....piece by piece by piece by piece.......thank you mike, for your incredible generosity, for setting aside your life for a week (and more) to share your space, your time, your art, your many talents....thank you, all you forumers for sharing the fruits of your labors--for your experience, assorted talents, and the warm glow of your personalities ..... As for now, got to get to work on the jacka diamonds, my first exchange.....Aimee NB thanks for the pictures----what fun to know I can return to that big room in kansas any ol time I want.....! ------------------------------ From: barebonesart Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:35:52 -0700 Subject: [Baren 21998] Re: Baren Digest V23 #2280 Renee Ugrin - hello and welcome to speaking out! I wish you had spoken sooner and gone to KS with Barbara, Wanda and me. We could have squeezed one more in that room, couldn't we? We got April in, albeit on the floor, and she probably thought she was stuck for the night in a room of chainsaws on high, but the rate was right and the airport transport service was incomparable (the good B. Mason providing at the crack of dawn while Wanda and I continued to snooze.) I hafta say, what is all this business about blacks? As Michael Schneider so aptly pointed out at the Summit in his remarks about his wardrobe, there are a cazillion shades of black. All are beautiful, each has it's own properties. I've seen equally wonderful, rich, deep, luscious blacks in both media, haven't you? If not, maybe we haven't been looking in the same places :-) Cheers, Sharri ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V23 #2281 *****************************