Today's postings
- [Baren 30060] etching/relief press ("Jean Womack")
- [Baren 30061] Re: etching/relief press ("Robert Viana")
- [Baren 30062] Re: etching/relief press (Diane Cutter)
- [Baren 30063] Re: An Invitation from CSP (ArtSpotiB # aol.com)
- [Baren 30064] Re: etching/relief press (Marissa)
- [Baren 30065] Re: hosho paper (Wanda Robertson)
- [Baren 30066] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V34 #3359 (Feb 4, 2006) (Lynn Starun)
- [Baren 30067] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V34 #3359 (Feb 4, 2006) (Myron Turner)
- [Baren 30068] Woodblock prints on display ... on sale ... (baren_member # barenforum.org)
- [Baren 30069] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: "Jean Womack"
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:19:29 -0800
Subject: [Baren 30060] etching/relief press
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[Baren] Daily DigestBefore you pay a brand-new price for a small used etching press, check out the presses that Dick Blick sells. They have a huge catalog which is aimed mostly at public school teachers, but it includes etching presses of all sizes.
Jean Womack
Jean Womack
Message 2
From: "Robert Viana"
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:48:31 -0200
Subject: [Baren 30061] Re: etching/relief press
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The etching press that dick blick sells is also the same one that Jack richeson sells. They are made in brazil by the same manufacturer and just private labled. I agree, buy new, Not used if possible.
> Before you pay a brand-new price for a small used etching press, check
> out the presses that Dick Blick sells. They have a huge catalog which is
> aimed mostly at public school teachers, but it includes etching presses of
> all sizes.
>
>
> Jean Womack
> Before you pay a brand-new price for a small used etching press, check
> out the presses that Dick Blick sells. They have a huge catalog which is
> aimed mostly at public school teachers, but it includes etching presses of
> all sizes.
>
>
> Jean Womack
Message 3
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 12:22:07 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 30062] Re: etching/relief press
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I don't know about Richeson, but Dick Blick is extremely responsive if there are any problems with presses bought from them.
Also, I have two DB presses (both older models) and have always been pleased with their performance.
Diane
www.dianecutter.com
Also, I have two DB presses (both older models) and have always been pleased with their performance.
Diane
www.dianecutter.com
Message 4
From: ArtSpotiB # aol.com
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 16:46:28 EST
Subject: [Baren 30063] Re: An Invitation from CSP
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Dear Carol.
Thanks so much for placing me on the Baren listserve. I've enjoy it
tremendously, finding it informative and a great way to look at printmaking across
geographical boundries.
I've done a bit of research regarding the age of the CSP... and can't seem to
find who is in front of us to claim "the oldest". I'm glad that you asked! I
also think that we need to be more specific, stating that we're the oldest
"surviving", as apparently there was a tremendous WAVE of new printmaking
societies in the 1870's. Oh, how I wish I had more time to fully investigate this
topic.
I do know that the actual answer to your question is supposed to be in our
CSP archives at the Bancroft Library, U. of Calif. campus. Unfortunately,
they're retrofitting and have stored practically everything (certainly the CSP
archives) for a few years for that task.
I hope to participate in a print exchange sometime. I spend quite a bit of
time and energy with the CSP administrative tasks though the adventure of
learning how to lead with some grace has been a fabulous education. I bet you have
some of the same thoughts regarding The Baren. At any rate, I hope to have the
time to belong to the group more deeply in the future. One can dream!
Warmly.
Benny Alba
CSP Pres.
Thanks so much for placing me on the Baren listserve. I've enjoy it
tremendously, finding it informative and a great way to look at printmaking across
geographical boundries.
I've done a bit of research regarding the age of the CSP... and can't seem to
find who is in front of us to claim "the oldest". I'm glad that you asked! I
also think that we need to be more specific, stating that we're the oldest
"surviving", as apparently there was a tremendous WAVE of new printmaking
societies in the 1870's. Oh, how I wish I had more time to fully investigate this
topic.
I do know that the actual answer to your question is supposed to be in our
CSP archives at the Bancroft Library, U. of Calif. campus. Unfortunately,
they're retrofitting and have stored practically everything (certainly the CSP
archives) for a few years for that task.
I hope to participate in a print exchange sometime. I spend quite a bit of
time and energy with the CSP administrative tasks though the adventure of
learning how to lead with some grace has been a fabulous education. I bet you have
some of the same thoughts regarding The Baren. At any rate, I hope to have the
time to belong to the group more deeply in the future. One can dream!
Warmly.
Benny Alba
CSP Pres.
Message 5
From: Marissa
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:16:18 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30064] Re: etching/relief press
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I have a Dick Blick/ Richerson Press that came with a damaged press bed.
Dick Blick and Richerson handled my problem very professional and I had a
new press bed within a week. Now my press works great and I absolutely love
it.
~mLee
Dick Blick and Richerson handled my problem very professional and I had a
new press bed within a week. Now my press works great and I absolutely love
it.
~mLee
Message 6
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:27:03 -0800
Subject: [Baren 30065] Re: hosho paper
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Lots of info (pros, cons, & how-tos) in the baren archives. You can do
a search on sizing & they will come up.
Wanda
a search on sizing & they will come up.
Wanda
Message 7
From: Lynn Starun
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 14:55:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 30066] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V34 #3359 (Feb 4, 2006)
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Hi All,
I've just bought a letterpress tabletop printer on
ebay! It's a Sigwalt which is supposed to be good but
I now have a lot to learn. I love the way
letterpress type looks on paper (I managed to do a
letterpress wedding invitation for my daughter using
my etching press) and I am hoping to use it with
woodblock printing as well. Ever since I saw that
Blake exhibit I've been experimenting with ways to get
similar results to Blakes. for the wedding invitation
I ended up sending a computer file away to Boxcar
press and receiving a nice polymer relief block. I
felt like I cheated but time was of the essence.
So my question is: have any of you done
woodblock/wood engraving on a letterpress clamshell
type printer?
Lynn
I've just bought a letterpress tabletop printer on
ebay! It's a Sigwalt which is supposed to be good but
I now have a lot to learn. I love the way
letterpress type looks on paper (I managed to do a
letterpress wedding invitation for my daughter using
my etching press) and I am hoping to use it with
woodblock printing as well. Ever since I saw that
Blake exhibit I've been experimenting with ways to get
similar results to Blakes. for the wedding invitation
I ended up sending a computer file away to Boxcar
press and receiving a nice polymer relief block. I
felt like I cheated but time was of the essence.
So my question is: have any of you done
woodblock/wood engraving on a letterpress clamshell
type printer?
Lynn
Message 8
From: Myron Turner
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:43:45 -0600
Subject: [Baren 30067] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V34 #3359 (Feb 4, 2006)
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I looked the Sigwalt on the web, and see it's a small platen with a hand
lever. I was very involved with letterpress printing 30 years ago.You
can still occasionally find our books listed on used book sites (Four
Humours Press). One of our presses was a Gordon Press, motor driven,
with a bed large enough to let us print books based on a 6x9 format, two
pages up--I believe the actual bed size was about 12 X 14 inches--too
long ago go remember exactly.
We did print relief prints as part of our books, but because of the
clam-shell action, it takes a lot of impressional strength, which means
that the blocks should be a fair bit smaller than the bed, and the more
blacks the greater the impressional strength that is needed. You'll
find that your blocks will print darker towards the outer edges, lighter
towards the center. This is a correctable problem and is caused by the
clam shell action. What you do is build up the central portions with
tissue paper, in layers, as needed. It's called "make-ready" and you'll
probably find that it's needed with type as well, if you are printing
more than a few lines of type. Just be careful with type that you build
up the make-ready slowly, because type is fragile and can smash under to
much pressure. One way to proceed with type is to take a non-inked
impression on a piece of light-weight bond. You can then see the
impression and add tissue where needed by pasting it with thin glue
directly to the bond. But of course the bond has to be registered to
the type.
Have fun,
Myron
lever. I was very involved with letterpress printing 30 years ago.You
can still occasionally find our books listed on used book sites (Four
Humours Press). One of our presses was a Gordon Press, motor driven,
with a bed large enough to let us print books based on a 6x9 format, two
pages up--I believe the actual bed size was about 12 X 14 inches--too
long ago go remember exactly.
We did print relief prints as part of our books, but because of the
clam-shell action, it takes a lot of impressional strength, which means
that the blocks should be a fair bit smaller than the bed, and the more
blacks the greater the impressional strength that is needed. You'll
find that your blocks will print darker towards the outer edges, lighter
towards the center. This is a correctable problem and is caused by the
clam shell action. What you do is build up the central portions with
tissue paper, in layers, as needed. It's called "make-ready" and you'll
probably find that it's needed with type as well, if you are printing
more than a few lines of type. Just be careful with type that you build
up the make-ready slowly, because type is fragile and can smash under to
much pressure. One way to proceed with type is to take a non-inked
impression on a piece of light-weight bond. You can then see the
impression and add tissue where needed by pasting it with thin glue
directly to the bond. But of course the bond has to be registered to
the type.
Have fun,
Myron
Message 9
From: baren_member # barenforum.org
Date: 5 Feb 2006 03:18:46 -0000
Subject: [Baren 30068] Woodblock prints on display ... on sale ...
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Auction and exhibition news today ...
... “Pines Grand Canyon,” a colorful woodblock print by Gustave Baumann sold for $18,000, double the estimated $7000-9000. “Le Jardin Français,” a 1904 Bernard Boutet woodblock print, fetched $300 ($150-250). A formal garden scene, it featured a lovely, seated lady enveloped by the voluminous, flounced layers of her jaunty orange gown. A multihued German woodblock print of houses on a snowy, winter night brought $720 (est. $250-350). Paul Berthon’s circa 1901 print, a profile of Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, sold for $300 ($250-350) ...
http://news-antique.com/?id=781024&keys=Treadway-Toomey-Teco-Norse-pottery
***
"Landscapes of Longing: Journeys Through Memory and Place" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art offers four exhibitions that explore, in very divergent ways, the power of art to influence our sense of the physical world. The centerpiece is Ando Hiroshige's"53 Stages of the Tokaido," exquisite color woodblock prints that depict 19th-Century views of the Japanese countryside along the 300-mile Eastern Sea Road, or Tokaido. It's rare that a full set of 55 prints is seen together. This fine collection is from the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania.
Through April 2 University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 S. State, Ann Arbor
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/ENT05/602030459/1115/ENT05
***
In Brandon, Vermont ...
North of Brandon, nationally-known artist Fran Bull has created a studio and gallery that's been featured in magazines and received rave reviews from Loedding for the beauty of its scenic views. Normally it's a by-appointment only gallery, but today, she'll be around to introduce the woodblock exhibit.
In Japanese hands, this has been a medium for exquisitely detailed and surprisingly colorful prints, Bull said. More than one woodblock is used to build up a print, so the overall design must be matched exactly by each block.
Sally Pleet, owner of the New York City gallery that showed the prints in June, will come at 2 p.m. March 11 to discuss them. The 52 prints, covering three centuries, will be for sale at reasonable prices, Bull said.
Heading north from Brandon, go from Route 7 to Arnold District Road (look for signs for Park Village) and onto a private drive to reach the Gallery in the Field.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/NEWS/602030304/1034
***
WHAT: Exhibit by artist Nathan Holman
WHEN: Now through Feb. 26
WHERE: Eide-Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College,
29th Street and Grange Avenue Sioux Falls, Minnesota
Nathan Holman's print-making process is the traditional Chinese method of rolling ink on a stone slab until it is "a nice thin viscosity," then rolling the ink onto a design carved into a wooden plate. He then puts paper on the plate and rubs the back with a traditional bamboo plate spoon.
He uses carving tools with round wooden handles, slicing out areas that will be white, and leaving raised areas that will print black. It's one of nine new prints for the show, among work done during the past few years.
Holman uses basswood for his plates, a light-colored wood with a consistent grain. There's rarely a hard spot in it, he says. "You can get a pretty fine line without losing too much, if you keep your tools sharp."
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060202/ENT01/602020327/1005/ENT
***
Auction and exhibition news today ...
... “Pines Grand Canyon,” a colorful woodblock print by Gustave Baumann sold for $18,000, double the estimated $7000-9000. “Le Jardin Français,” a 1904 Bernard Boutet woodblock print, fetched $300 ($150-250). A formal garden scene, it featured a lovely, seated lady enveloped by the voluminous, flounced layers of her jaunty orange gown. A multihued German woodblock print of houses on a snowy, winter night brought $720 (est. $250-350). Paul Berthon’s circa 1901 print, a profile of Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, sold for $300 ($250-350) ...
http://news-antique.com/?id=781024&keys=Treadway-Toomey-Teco-Norse-pottery
***
"Landscapes of Longing: Journeys Through Memory and Place" at the University of Michigan Museum of Art offers four exhibitions that explore, in very divergent ways, the power of art to influence our sense of the physical world. The centerpiece is Ando Hiroshige's"53 Stages of the Tokaido," exquisite color woodblock prints that depict 19th-Century views of the Japanese countryside along the 300-mile Eastern Sea Road, or Tokaido. It's rare that a full set of 55 prints is seen together. This fine collection is from the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania.
Through April 2 University of Michigan Museum of Art 525 S. State, Ann Arbor
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/ENT05/602030459/1115/ENT05
***
In Brandon, Vermont ...
North of Brandon, nationally-known artist Fran Bull has created a studio and gallery that's been featured in magazines and received rave reviews from Loedding for the beauty of its scenic views. Normally it's a by-appointment only gallery, but today, she'll be around to introduce the woodblock exhibit.
In Japanese hands, this has been a medium for exquisitely detailed and surprisingly colorful prints, Bull said. More than one woodblock is used to build up a print, so the overall design must be matched exactly by each block.
Sally Pleet, owner of the New York City gallery that showed the prints in June, will come at 2 p.m. March 11 to discuss them. The 52 prints, covering three centuries, will be for sale at reasonable prices, Bull said.
Heading north from Brandon, go from Route 7 to Arnold District Road (look for signs for Park Village) and onto a private drive to reach the Gallery in the Field.
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060203/NEWS/602030304/1034
***
WHAT: Exhibit by artist Nathan Holman
WHEN: Now through Feb. 26
WHERE: Eide-Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College,
29th Street and Grange Avenue Sioux Falls, Minnesota
Nathan Holman's print-making process is the traditional Chinese method of rolling ink on a stone slab until it is "a nice thin viscosity," then rolling the ink onto a design carved into a wooden plate. He then puts paper on the plate and rubs the back with a traditional bamboo plate spoon.
He uses carving tools with round wooden handles, slicing out areas that will be white, and leaving raised areas that will print black. It's one of nine new prints for the show, among work done during the past few years.
Holman uses basswood for his plates, a light-colored wood with a consistent grain. There's rarely a hard spot in it, he says. "You can get a pretty fine line without losing too much, if you keep your tools sharp."
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060202/ENT01/602020327/1005/ENT
***
Message 10
From: Blog Manager
Date: 5 Feb 2006 04:55:08 -0000
Subject: [Baren 30069] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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One of my recent prints. This was printed on a 4...
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com/2006/02/one-of-my-recent-prints.html
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The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (13 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)
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Site Name: m.Lee Prints
Author: m.Lee
Item:
One of my recent prints. This was printed on a 4...
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com/2006/02/one-of-my-recent-prints.html
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