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Message 1
From: "Love Me"
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:07:00 +1000
Subject: [Baren 26169] Thanks Mike, Barbara and Bette
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Today was the last day spent printing with my first skin. First thing in the morning I took the skin off, marvelled at the coil underneath, and then patched my holes (The biggest now the size of a ladybird) with small pieces of cellotape. I completed my days work, but at least half the prints were looking furry on the back. A little spritzing and weight seems to restore the paper, but I figure the holes are starting to set me back, so I am going to bite the bullet and reskin my baren

With all the tips from Mike and Barbara M and the online pages, I feel much better about taking the next great leap in the never-ending challenge of woodblock printing.

Bette, I will go now and re-enter my details on the correct page. Thanks for setting me straight

Tom in Australia

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Message 2
From: Cucamongie # aol.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:59:13 EDT
Subject: [Baren 26170] thanks
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I've just been catching up on my email, so belated thanks for the congrats,
folks. National Association of Women Artists will eventually have stuff
online from the show at nawanet.org, but the images are not online yet.

best wishes
Sarah

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Message 3
From: "Maria Diener (aka Arango)"
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:07:54 -0700
Subject: [Baren 26171] gallery heeeeeeeeeeelp!!!
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First order of business:

Congratulations to all the award and good stuff winners!

Welcome all new members to the most incredible group of the universe.

NOW, I have an incredible opportunity to join with a few fellow local Vegas
artists and start an artist-owned gallery in an upscale shopping center. I
have pretty much decided to do it as my partners are great people and good
business-artists. But we need any experiences and tips and guideliness as we
can muster. We are now meeting weekly (in our spare time) and the energy is
incredible; now in the process of developing bylaws, agreements, logistics,
wish lists, and all that exciting mind boggling stuff.

Anyhow, anyone with experience in such things that wants to contribute any
guiding thoughts or kicks in the butts (it rhymed with thoughts), please
feel free to email me offline.

Ohhhh boy...

Maria

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Message 4
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:38:22 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26172] Re: Thanks Mike, Barbara and Bette
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Tom writes:
" I completed my days work, but at least half the prints were looking furry
on the back. A little spritzing and weight seems to restore the paper, but
I figure the holes are starting to set me back, so I am going to bite the
bullet and reskin my baren"

Tom, you might be already doing this, but if you use a piece of waxy thin
paper between your baren and your print paper it helps tremendously with
the friction created by the rubbing of the skin on the paper and it avoids
'furry' and 'piling' of the paper. The japanese term for it is 'Ate-gami'
(http://www.barenforum.org/mall/products/print_accessories.php).
I use it whenever I am printing on very thin paper that can't take
repeated impressions otherwise or when my baren skin starts to have
problems.

Here is a link on baren usage:

http://www.barenforum.org/encyclopedia/entries/onepoint/018_30/018_30_frame.html

good luck.........Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)

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Message 5
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:09:48 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26173] Re: New Year of the Rooster Exchange and other related Monkey business....
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Well, it's about that time to start signup for the "Baren Chinese New Year
card exchange". That's a long title !

Currently we have about 45+ members signed up for "2004 Year of the
Monkey". Signup is closed for 2004. If you are still working on your
Monkey prints and/or are getting ready to mail them to the distribution
list please try to do so before the end of this year ....otherwise....
according to old Chinese legend.... I think you are going to have some
very bad luck next year ;-)

If you need more info on how these informal exchanges are run go to the
link below. If you participated this year and need the name and addresses
for this year's distribution list....go print it now....a new signup page
will go up in about a week or so. The idea is to send one of your 4X6"
prints/cards to each of the members in the list.

http://www.barenforum.org/new_year/index.html

This is our sixth year doing the New Year exchange and those of us that
have participated since the start have a very nice collection of
prints/cards. We will finish our first pass thru the exchange cycle in the year 2011. WOW !!!! Since this coming year, 2005, marks the halfway point....perhaps we can
plan some special activities/exhibitions/get-together's/whatever to help
celebrate the first six years of our project. Ideas ?

I will have the prints from this year's Monkey exchange on display in
about a week or so....and at that time we'll announce open signup for the
next exchange. This is a very good & informal way for new members or
newbies to get into exchanging prints. This coming year is the Year of the Rooster.

Any questions or suggestions are very much welcome....links to previous
years prints:

2000 - Dragons, http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/dragons.html (takes a while to load )
2001 - Snakes, http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/snakes/
2002 - Horses, http://www.skokienet.org/bandits/jcrstuff/horses/
2003 - Sheep - tba
2004 - Monkey - tba


thanks...Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)


For those of you that may not be familiar with the history:
"The Chinese Lunar New Year is the longest chronological record in history,
dating from 2600BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle
of the zodiac. Like the Western calendar, The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a
yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of
the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the
year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February.
This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and
is made up of five cycles of 12 years each.

The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal.
Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him
before he departed from earth. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as
a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The
Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a
profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides
in your heart."

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Message 6
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:27:49 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26174] Robin Morris Exchange #23 please contact me
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ROBIN MORRIS: Please contact me off list -- the email address you provided
for Exchange #23 is bouncing...

-- Mike


Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com

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Message 7
From: Daniel Dew
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 15:47:42 -0400
Subject: [Baren 26175] Re: New Year of the Rooster Exchange and other related Monkey business....
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Count me in, and yes, mine and Meagan's are on the way. New job,
finances and other crap have slowed me down.
What's next year's animal?

Daniel L. Dew

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