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Message 1
From: "I Millard"
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:46:53 -0400
Subject: [Baren 28043] thanks
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Julio, Jeanne, and Barbara thanks for the kind words. :-)

Barbara, thanks for turning me on to Guerra Paint in NYC. I was a little
overwhelmed by their website so I gave them a call and the person on the
phone helped me put together a great beginners set of Pigment Dispersions,
binders and thickeners. I can't wait to give them a try. I checked out the
complete Baren #23 set was blown away. Everyone is so talented. Keep up the
great work!

- Ian

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Message 2
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:05:22 -0500
Subject: [Baren 28044] Re: thanks
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Ian wrote:
>Barbara, thanks for turning me on to Guerra Paint in NYC. I was a little
>overwhelmed by their website so I gave them a call and the person on the
>phone helped me put together a great beginners set of Pigment Dispersions,
>binders and thickeners. I can't wait to give them a try. I checked out
>the complete Baren #23 set was blown away. Everyone is so talented. Keep
>up the great work!


Dear Ian,

I use the Guerra dispersions for my own hanga and they are WONDERFUL! But
you won't want to use their binders and thickeners for hanga -- all you
need is rice paste or methyl cellulose and the dispersions (you 'could' add
a little gum and or glue if you like, but it's really not necessary, at
least for the pigments I've been using)...

-- Mike


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

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Message 3
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:19:55 -0700
Subject: [Baren 28045] Re: exchange #23 is here... WOW .!!!!!
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By the way, Murilo, the group looking at the exchange with me really
enjoyed your print!

It is really an outstanding portfolio of prints & eventually I will be
able to consolidate & give everyone some feedback from me & the
printmaking students who looked at them with me!

Wanda

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Message 4
From: Annie Bissett
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:24:46 -0400
Subject: [Baren 28046] Ian's Linocuts, Praise for Baren Forum
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Ian, I enjoyed looking at your linocuts. I noticed on your main site that
you're a designer. Are you doing blockprints for clients? I'm curious, as
I'm an illustrator, and although I'm new to woodblock printing I'm hoping to
be able to sometimes incorporate woodblock into my commercial work. I do a
lot of editorial jobs and often have only a few days to produce a given
piece, so woodblock may be too labor-intensive to really work with in that
arena, but I'd like to try. Heck, moku hanga was originally "commercial"
printing, wasn't it?

And to Baren Forum: I'm sure it's been said a gajillion times, but this is
an amazing, beautiful, one-of-a-kind web site and web community. I started
reading the forum archives from the beginning (this tells you more about me
than perhaps I'd like you to know!) and I can't stop - I find them so
compelling. Yesterday I was reading from July of 1999, and several Bareners
were discussing attending a workshop with Leonard Baskin in Italy. I live in
Northampton MA, where Baskin taught and spent much of his life and where he
died less than one year after that workshop. I was really moved when I
realized that.

David Bull, thank you for starting this Forum, and thank you for having the
wisdom to preserve everything (and I mean _every_thing). It's invaluable
information.

Annie B, Northampton MA

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Message 5
From: slinders # comcast.net
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:27:46 -0500
Subject: [Baren 28047] Re: Exchange #23 Gallery is up!
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The Exchange #23, "Influential Printmaker" is wonderful, as is
the terrific "Pets" exchange! So many beautiful, large prints
all of a sudden!

My Ex-23 Tribute printmaker is Clare Leighton. (Someone's
narrative has been misplaced. Might it be Connie's?)

Sharen

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Message 6
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:15:50 -0500
Subject: [Baren 28048] Re: Exchange #23 Gallery is up!
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Sharen Linder wrote:
>My Ex-23 Tribute printmaker is Clare Leighton. (Someone's narrative has
>been misplaced. Might it be Connie's?)

Dear Sharen,

So sorry! I mostly 'automate' the building of the gallery pages these
days, and my 'stuff' apparently overwrote your 'real' comments (which have
now been replaced with your original comments in the gallery)... If it
happened once, it might have happened everywhere, so I'd appreciate it if
other Exchange 23 participants would check their pages and send an email to
mailto:coordinator23@barenforum.org if I've mis-quoted your colophon
details as well! Here's a direct link to the #23 gallery:
http://www.barenforum.org/exchange/exchange_23/exchange_frame.html

Thanks so much,

Mike


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

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Message 7
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:20:36 -0500
Subject: [Baren 28049] Re:Exchange #23 - Pets
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I agree with Sharen Linder, both the #23 and the recently arrived "Pets"
exchange have a great selection of prints. Thank you to Maria Arango for
coordinating exchange #23 and to Barbara Patera for coordinating and
bringing together the three printmaking communities ( Baren, Print
Australia & PrintMaking Links) for the 'Pets - Factual or Fantastical'
exchange.

Thanks to John Center for the bonus print in Exchange #23.

Congratulations to James Mundie on his ongoing group show "Alive Inside:
The Lure and Lore of the Sideshow" in Charleston, South Carolina..

See http://www.missioncreep.com/mundie/images/alive.htm or
http://www.mundieart.com/alive-inside.htm


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

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Message 8
From: "cjpiers"
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:34:44 -0700
Subject: [Baren 28050] Re:Ex-23 Tribute
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Sharen,
Yeah, it's missing. I'm not sure why I didn't add that information.
I love Kathe Kollwitz, Leonard Baskin, Durer, Marc Chagall and Mauricio
Lasansky http://www.lasanskyart.com/index.shtml. I recently bought an old
catalogue from an exhibit at the University of Iowa in 1976 of Lasanksy's
prints and drawings. In it there was an interview and in that small
interview I was amazed to find three or four quickly mentiond ways of
thinking and working that I had heard many times from my teacher (Lasansky's
student) in college. I still hear her in my mind when I am working on a
project. I sort of feel that in a round-about way I am getting his teaching
also. So in the end my teacher, Jeanette Kirishian, is my most influential
printmaker. Her wonderful work is quite different from Lasansky's, but the
ways of thinking about the process of art making, mistakes and what's
important are something she has passed on. Even though I struggle getting it
right I am always inspired to keep trying. There is a place in my heart only
she owns.

Connie Pierson
in Spokane WA

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Message 9
From: "Connie Lambert"
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:04:43 -0500
Subject: [Baren 28051] My website
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Hello
Thanks Dave, I've wondered about that. Every day I delete the old one and
think to myself, "I should email someone about that". Just never got around
to it. Yep setting the filter/rule would work. Maybe I'll get around to that
someday.
Congrats to Tom, Mike and Carol. Proud to be a member of such a wonderful,
successful group. I'm hoping some of those vibes will spread out to St.
Louis.
Also want to add, that I now have a website. My goal is to add more images
to the gallery page. That requires the aid of my computer guru husband so
I'll let you know when that project is updated. But for now here it is.
Feedback is always welcome. :)
www.ConnieLambert.com

Lots of nice prints in the exchange!! Great job all.
Connie

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Message 10
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 15:00:02 -0700
Subject: [Baren 28052] RE: Baren Digest (old) V31 #3073
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Since I have a hard time getting supplies down here to do printmaking
I celebrated when I found some 90lb watercolor paper. Having woked with
a lot of watercolor papers I knew this one was a cold press and acid free, yahooo!.
And also having used up most of my nice Japanese paper I had to find something to
put my rooster print on. Now for the plight of plights. I have been trying a bit
of an unusual print and having quite a time getting the color to be consistent.
Parts are light, parts dark. First of all I found out part of the trouble was me
and not using the Baren right. Then one day I had prepped my paper and just had no time. S
So I let it dry out and then wet it again. The paper took the paint better. So I took the
rest of my cut up sheets and soaked them for 15 mintues, blotted them and put them in blotter and

plastic bag and they sat all night. Wahoo, the pigment is dispersed much better, like the paper
is taking on the color better and more evenly. For anyone who has used 90lb watercolor paper,
is this a usual thing? Is it best to soak this first as a prep? It seemed to work better for me????
Remember this is not hot press but cold press, that could make a difference???

Oh and Mike never got back to you about the fading of pigment under light. Seems to me
why take that chance? And I do suppose handling does have its measure of damage. I just
want my work to be enjoyed to its fullest. Hope my girl friend keeps loving that little print.
And there is something special about holding and looking at a hanga print done on fine
Japanese paper with those lovely pigments.
Marilynn

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Message 11
From: Dave Bull
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 10:19:18 +0900
Subject: [Baren 28053] Re: Praise for Baren Forum
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> David Bull, thank you for starting this Forum, and thank you for
> having the
> wisdom to preserve everything (and I mean _every_thing). It's
> invaluable
> information.

Well, I can (sort of) accept thanks for starting this, but as I've
repeated a zillion times, what you see now was 'built' over the years
by all the members, not by me ...

As for the preservation, you should direct thanks to Gayle, our
archivist. Except for those times when she's off gallivantin' around
the country, she gets the Archives indexed and up-to-date _every_
night, so that the information is there for everybody to find and
access later ...

Dave

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