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Message 1
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 06:58:37 -0800
Subject: [Baren 27442] RE: Baren Digest (old) V30 #2996
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Connie, I have always been tool challenged and never thought I would get
into carving let alone sharpening tools. After the last summit in KC I went
into the woodcrafters store in Portland, Oregon and asked for sharpening
stones. They looked at me and asked what I was sharpening. I said the
Power Grip tools you sold me. The man said you need this and handed me a
strop. It is a piece of leather attached to a wooden board with a handle
and grooves in it for the different shaped tools. A snap to use, all you
have to do is put on the honing compound and use the right groove and your
tools are sharp! I finally used a stone, I went very slowly and carefully
and matched the shape of the tool, to remove a chip. You really do not need
a stone unless you chip your tools, I have found this strop, named a slick
stick keeps my tools razor sharp. I would go to the store where you bought
the tools and ask them if they have a leather strop or a "slick stick".
There is really no guess work with this tool because it has the grooves
already there to match the shape of your tools.
Marilynn

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Message 2
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:07:14 -0600
Subject: [Baren 27443] Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Hey!

More than 60 of my woodcuts were sold during my solo exhibition at Ezoshi
in Kyoto, Japan last October -- what a thrill! If you'd like a ($10) copy
of the beautiful catalog from the show which illustrates 25 of my woodcuts,
let me know and I'll be happy to send you one!

I've been hard at work on a series of drypoints and mezzotints -- no prints
pulled yet, but the plates are interesting and look very promising! I've
also begun building the apparatus I need in order to hand-print the very
large paper (3 by 6 feet) which Iwano Ichibei (the Japanese Living National
Treasure of papermaking) made especially for me! I am very excited about
the very large-scale woodblock prints which I will complete on the big
paper this year!

I have been 'picked up' by the wonderful Saru Gallery in Holland
www.sarugallery.com/new.php and they have a selection of my woodblock
prints available for sale -- This is quite a prestigious gallery and I
think the work they offer is high level! The director, Eric van den Ing,
has this to say:
"I would like to introduce an American artist, Mike Lyon (b. 1951). I am
showing a representative selection from his work. Mike Lyon belongs to the
New Hanga movement, whose members are exploring the field of woodblock
printing. Also in Japan his work has been received with enthusiasm. Have a
look! Click here to go the latest
acquisitions"
My large blue portrait of "Anthony" (~30 x 20 inches) has been juried into
two important exhibitions this month: The 18th Annual McNeese National
Works on Paper Exhibition (how unusual for a woodblock PRINT to make it
into this exhibition -- they accepted only 37 works on paper from more than
800 entries, I'm told)! and also the the American Impressions exhibition of
contemporary American printmaking at the Ben Shahn Galleries in Wayne, New
Jersey.

Just wanted to share some of this excitement with you!

Best,

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

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Message 3
From: Daniel Dew
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:26:21 -0500
Subject: [Baren 27444] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Mike, what an assume accomplishment!
Congratulations!

And you are a nice guy to boot, go figure.


Daniel L. Dew

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Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:36:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 27445] A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Mike,
You deserve all of this, you are talented but more than that you are working hard. This is what separates the men from the boys of the art world, the hard work. Also having been in business you can approach your art "product" like a business and have found your niche! We are all delighted for you and hope a little of this success rubs off on the rest of us! Congratulations!
Barbara

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Message 5
From: "Matt Laine"
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:41:07 -0500
Subject: [Baren 27446] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Your talent and artistry are AWESOME!
Matt Laine

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Message 6
From: Jeanne Norman Chase
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:22:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 27447] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Congratulations Mike, you are very deserving of all the accolades.
Can I have your autograph???????

Jeanne N.

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Message 7
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:26:41 EST
Subject: [Baren 27448] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Tremendous CONGRATULATIONS to you!!!!
You deserve it.

Carol Lyons
Irvington,NY

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Message 8
From: Robin Morris
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:40:15 -0800
Subject: [Baren 27449] "God's Man"- book report
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Received a copy of "God's Man" by Lynd Ward.
If anyone is interested I could send a few page shots up to my server
to look at.
There is somewhere a website with selected pages from his novels, but i
can't find it right now.
I thought I'd post some impressions from "reading" it...
This book could be read by anyone and understood, no matter what
language they speak...
I even think I understand it, so surely you will too. it is translated
into all languages by the
imagination and artistry of Ward's brush.
This brush, if we take the book to be autobiography, he bought from a
dark figure
for the price of his signature on some old document. Seemed a fair deal
at the time...

The book feels like it is suspended in air between Kent's moby Dick
illustrations
and the modern graphic novel.
I found myself moved, a lot, by the absolutely wordless story,
all in shades of pure black and white.
If a picture is worth a thousand words this book is worth around a
hundred thousand.
The book perfectly mirror's Ward's fears and dreams, bathed in the
chiaroscuro light
we often think of as painting everything in the hard world of early
thirties
urban America.
If you were wealthy and dated movie stars, like Howard Hughes,
the thirties was all shades of pastel blue and peach, a Gatsbyesque
party at times. if you were not,
if you owned nothing but a folio of drawings and a desire to make some
prints, the thirties had to look pretty dismal.

Ward apparently had a great bit of luck,
as a young unknown without references walking into a new publishing
house and being given the chance to make their first book.
Then again, each of his prints is astonishing. He probably did turn a
lot of heads with his drawings even at first.
I wondered after the first reading, if Ward might have felt this was
his life's work, and that although he wanted to continue, perhaps
something would happen that would leave this his only published work.
Fortunately he did continue. But everything he knew at the time, is in
this book.

Sort of a Citizen Kane of nice comic books.
And not a word spoken.
I can't let that happen. Had to tack a few words on it.
The book is still available here and there in hardback, and there are
nice paperbound reprints as well.

RM

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Message 9
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:52:28 -0600
Subject: [Baren 27450] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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I wrote blah, blah, blah!

Oh my gosh -- I really _did_ intend to send that 'press release' email to
983 of my closest friends, relatives, and collectors, but I certainly did
_NOT_ intend to include baren forum in the list -- baren must have gotten
added into someone else's entry in my address book by mistake or something!

Well, please accept my sincere and embarrassed apology for that
self-serving message (heck -- even if I had intended it for baren -- I
thought bcc's were routinely excluded from our broadcasts??)...

Anyway, it was NOT intentional (and warm thanks to all the well-wishing
replies)!

-- Mike :-[


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

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Message 10
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:39:37 -0600
Subject: [Baren 27451] Re: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Mike,

Congratulations on another fine job, I am happy to see your work
getting the recognition it deserves. 'Blue Shoes' hangs in my family room
as does another
of your earlier prints (doggies) ......I count at least ten of the prints
from the Gallery page on my own personal exchange collection....thanks for
sharing the news with us....even if it was an accident......Hey, we are
all very interested in your work & accolades.....keep us in the loop !

congratulations......Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)

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Message 11
From: "Maria Diener (aka Arango)"
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:46:09 -0800
Subject: [Baren 27452] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Congratulations Mike!!! GREAT accomplishments, for sure.

Off and on list and every list...hey, artists have to continually toot toot
or we die in silence with our ears cut off...or something like that.

:-) Maria


Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com
Las Vegas Nevada USA

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Message 12
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:24:01 -0800
Subject: [Baren 27453] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Congratulations, Mike!!!!

Cheers ..... Charles

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Message 13
From: "Diane Cutter"
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:15:06 -0500
Subject: [Baren 27454] Re: Fwd: A new artist in Saru Gallery
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Mike...

This is wonderful news... Congratulations! Your work is certainly beautiful and worthy...

Diane...

www.dianecutter.com
www.WetCanvas.com - internet artist community

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