Baren Digest Friday, 12 September 2003 Volume 24 : Number 2370 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Charles Morgan Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 07:15:21 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22752] sheep/ram/goat card Mea Culpa ... I have been playing with the New Years card for quite a while. I have etched it in steel twice ... did not like either one, either as intaglio or relief. Carved it a couple of times ... did not like either one. So now I have two new blocks carved and one small steel etching, all to be combined ... just waiting to be printed. Hopefully I will get at it this week ... sigh. Sometimes life gets in the way of art. Do not despair ... another sheep/ram/goat cometh .... Cheers ..... Charles At 12:08 AM 9/11/03 -0700, you wrote: Welcome back, Maria. Your voice has been missed! I find it interesting that so many people have missed the puzzle deadline. There are also about a dozen or so who have missed the 2003 year of the Goat/Ram deadline. Seems I've got a little list and their names are not checked off, and their cards do not grace the album I made for that exchange. I took our friend from Brazil's name off because he left the List , but I have not seen evidence that the remaining 10 or so names have also cancelled the Forum List. If I am in error, I apologize. If not, catch up people! (Please?) I love getting those cards. ------------------------------ From: Reneeaugrin@aol.com Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:01:13 EDT Subject: [Baren 22753] Many Thanks! Dear Bareneers, Thanks to everyone who had such great ideas on how to get over an inspirational printing 'block' :) . I have signed up for Exchange #18a ( a elegant small print to start will be good) and the late date will really get a fire lit under this printmaker! I am reorganizing my studio this morning and there should be a treasure trove of not yet discovered things in there! It is so great to belong to such a generous community of artists. Thank you all so much! Renee U. Damascus, Oregon ------------------------------ From: "carol wagner" Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:25:15 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22754] Re: Baren Digest V24 #2369 Good morning all, Paper. Hmm...PAPER , that magical substrate that conveys our most fleeting thoughts ,feelings, and desires , be they artistically poetic or visual...two more to add to the list, and these are eastern papers : Warabanshi, sized, and Korean Kozo, unsized. The Warabanshi, slightly yellow in cast is available from most larger paper suppliers, and the cost is modest. The Korean Kozo , needs to be sized, but is very tough, and comes in very large sheets which tear well when creased and dampened along the fold. As for western papers. I have always loved Lana Laid, German etching, and Reeves heavyweight. A friend who does lithography recently incited me to use magniani prescia, cream, for drawing, and I'll experiment printing hanga with it soon. Murilo wrote, Murilo, I think that using handmade paper is a great idea, just remember to size it if you print hanga style! Otherwise the color will just stain right through the paper. Also, you do not write to much, we love to hear from you. Also, you promised on after five to tell us about your city, so you'll have to write some more there, soon? Eve, I am fascinated by your website, thank you for the link. Bette, I cannot claim the authorship of the lament for what cannot be changed, It is a somewhat altered scrap of memory from my days of enchantment with various translations of a certain Persian tent maker, called Omar. (Just one of the many translations available from a Fitzgerald, ) Cheer from Carol in Sacramento ------------------------------ From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:36:22 -0500 Subject: [Baren 22755] Re: Calenda 2004 prints Two packages of Postcard calendar prints received today. One from Lezle Williams ("Quaray Ruins, New Mexico") and one from Kat Pukas ("Kenyata and Grace" sp ?). The prints are starting to arrive almost daily now and is fun waiting for Mr. Postman to see what he has for me...the pile of packages in my studio is getting taller and soon we will be able to start to put the calendars together....stay tuned, I promise to have the website updated real soon with the new prints. Someone mentioned New Year cards...is getting to be about that time, look for a signup webpage info later in the month...I think it's the Year of the Monkey this time....which happens to be my year...meaning the animal sign under which I was born. Still time to get those Goats/Sheep cards in. thank you very much, wonderful prints....Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois) ------------------------------ From: Daniel Dew Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:45:34 -0400 Subject: [Baren 22756] Re: Calenda 2004 prints received.... oops, I have a couple to scan, will do so tonight. d. dew >From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com >Subject: [Baren 22755] Re: Calenda 2004 prints received.... > >Someone mentioned New Year cards...is getting to be about that time, look >for a signup webpage info later in the >month...I think it's the Year of the Monkey this time....which happens to be >my year...meaning the animal sign under which I was born. Still time to get >those Goats/Sheep cards in. >Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois) > > ------------------------------ From: "Jeanne N. Chase" Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:08:02 -0400 Subject: [Baren 22757] Re: Calenda 2004 prints received.... Julio Would you please contact me off list? Thanks Jeanne N. studiojnc@prodigy.net ------------------------------ From: GWohlken Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:46:03 -0400 Subject: [Baren 22758] Re: Baren Digest V24 #2369 Carol, as for New Year's cards, don't give up on the likes of me. Last year my horses went out at Christmas. It seems I have the chunk of time I need only after October because of so many factors (this year and last, getting ready for my woodcuts show at the local theater was only one of them). Earlier in the year I tried several versions of the ram, and have carved them, and when printed I was disappointed. I sometimes think it would be easier to do RAM as Random Access Memory as a theme than this amorphously shaped animal with spiraled horns. I'm enjoying everyone's motivation tricks. Here's another one for people who write. Turn one of your poems into a piece of art. And dreams are often good muses for both art and poetry. John Center, I want to go to Quebec, too. This has been a desire for a long time, now you say they have carving tools. When's the next train out of here. :-) ~Gayle ------------------------------ From: "marilynn smih" Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:25:04 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22759] Re: Baren Digest V24 #2369 Blue ink everywhere. I am covered in blue ink, I may dream about blue ink. After washing my hands after inking this plate each time it is a wonder they are not raw! Let me see do we not proof our plates to find high spots? Than why is it when I had a few spots outside my image I wondered what to do??? Is this a duh factor? Well maybe not. I carved a bit lower and still had a bit of a problem, hmmm. Are mini plates harder to print? I think so. The solution??? After each print is press run I take a paper towel and place it on the block and press it down to remove ink, than re-ink and no spots outside my image! I would have thought that small plates need small rollers, hmm. I have only a 4" and a 2" for this oily stuff. Too late to order one now, the postage will be more than the roller, not practical. Maybe santa will bring me one??? The impulse to work, well I procrastinate with the best of them, but hit that studio. The other day I did not have my paper yet for the mini block, so was not going to work. So instead I started cleaning the studio. Oh there is a monotype plate ready to paint on, hmm nice little print. Oh here is that collagraph plate I set aside not knowing quite how I would finish it, hmm, how about trying wood chips for a textured effect?? Well ooops I threw out those when I finished my last carving but that pile of coarse saw dust in the husbands' workshop looks interesting. Now I wilil have to roll this one up and see what kind of texture saw dust gives. Is printmaking about solving problems?? Is it about getting all dirty with ink and cutting ones fingers? Or is it merely frustration when a block just won't work well? Some times i think I must be nuts to do this art stuff, but at least I have a room full of art I have created, but maybe a dusty house and oops I should bring out that vaccum. Art is my joy, my passion and it is part of me, it is who I am! And with that the sun is coming out here in tiny Nahcotta, Washington ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V24 #2370 *****************************