Today's postings
- [Baren 30365] Fra, Qua, and the Natural World (Gayle Wohlken)
- [Baren 30366] Re: Fra, Qua, and the Natural World (AEleen Frisch)
- [Baren 30367] Re: Fra, Qua, and More (ArtfulCarol # aol.com)
- [Baren 30368] ART-TRA Outside ("Oscar Bearinger")
- [Baren 30369] Re: Fra, Qua, and the Natural World (FurryPressII # aol.com)
- [Baren 30370] reversing text and letters to a young artist (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 30371] MCPP Numero Dos ("Maria Arango")
- [Baren 30372] Chop Mark Placement ("Angee Lennard")
- [Baren 30373] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: Gayle Wohlken
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:38:28 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30365] Fra, Qua, and the Natural World
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Want to hear something funny? I have been carving a cartoon in
wood. I had the dialog boxes above my characters and believed I had
them turned correctly backwards. When I held them before the mirror
(before actually beginning the carving), one character was saying
"Fra" and the other was saying "Kwa". Ha. Even when we think we
have it right, we sometimes don't.
Music while carving -- birds coming into their hour, bullfrogs "belly-
deeping", the dead-of-summer cicadas, and at the end of summer if
it's late (I'm on the back porch), katydids. In winter it's the wind
pushing at the windows. And if that doesn't do it, then the drone of
a didgeridoo which sounds industrious for carving, and encouraging.
~Gayle
Northeast Ohio
wood. I had the dialog boxes above my characters and believed I had
them turned correctly backwards. When I held them before the mirror
(before actually beginning the carving), one character was saying
"Fra" and the other was saying "Kwa". Ha. Even when we think we
have it right, we sometimes don't.
Music while carving -- birds coming into their hour, bullfrogs "belly-
deeping", the dead-of-summer cicadas, and at the end of summer if
it's late (I'm on the back porch), katydids. In winter it's the wind
pushing at the windows. And if that doesn't do it, then the drone of
a didgeridoo which sounds industrious for carving, and encouraging.
~Gayle
Northeast Ohio
Message 2
From: AEleen Frisch
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:51:04 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30366] Re: Fra, Qua, and the Natural World
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What a delightful post this is. And I was lucky enough to receive it as
my first post from Baren Forum. Thank you for this spot of fun in my day.
AEleen Frisch
my first post from Baren Forum. Thank you for this spot of fun in my day.
AEleen Frisch
Message 3
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:36:37 EST
Subject: [Baren 30367] Re: Fra, Qua, and More
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That's funny Gayle.
Maybe we should have a collection of funny stories . Between the 400 of us
we could make a hefty book!
ART is TRA backwards and I've done that by mistake. I like ART-TRA as a
woodblock print.
Where do we print?
A woodblock printer friend was visiting me overnight and came along on my
appointment to my doctor. While waiting for me, he ( I don't use the name
because you may recognize it) sat carving. When I came out he was still at
it and not a spot of shavings on the floor!. I told the people in the
wailting room about him and his work and they were amazed. These were very sick
people and it made their day.
I must ask where the shavings went.
Carol L.
Maybe we should have a collection of funny stories . Between the 400 of us
we could make a hefty book!
ART is TRA backwards and I've done that by mistake. I like ART-TRA as a
woodblock print.
Where do we print?
A woodblock printer friend was visiting me overnight and came along on my
appointment to my doctor. While waiting for me, he ( I don't use the name
because you may recognize it) sat carving. When I came out he was still at
it and not a spot of shavings on the floor!. I told the people in the
wailting room about him and his work and they were amazed. These were very sick
people and it made their day.
I must ask where the shavings went.
Carol L.
Message 4
From: "Oscar Bearinger"
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:17:51 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30368] ART-TRA Outside
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Carol and all
>....While waiting for me,....he sat carving. When I came out he was still at it and not a spot of shavings on the floor!.
>I told [them] about him and his work and they were amazed. These were very sick people and it made their day.
>I must ask where the shavings went.
This is a great story, and a great example, Carol. Thanks. (Tell us where the shavings went)
Oscar
>....While waiting for me,....he sat carving. When I came out he was still at it and not a spot of shavings on the floor!.
>I told [them] about him and his work and they were amazed. These were very sick people and it made their day.
>I must ask where the shavings went.
This is a great story, and a great example, Carol. Thanks. (Tell us where the shavings went)
Oscar
Message 5
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:24:42 EST
Subject: [Baren 30369] Re: Fra, Qua, and the Natural World
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There is a easy way to always getting words as other things that have to be
backwards on your block. Take your words or image make a zerox of it
and then transfer the zerox to your wood block. Transfering a image or text
from a zerox will make it backwards on your wood block.
This is how I do it.
1. tape zerox on to board face down.
2. rub the back of zerox with lacqur thinner
3 place a sheet plex glass or hard book board on top of the zerox
4. run it through my vandercook press
important to open a window when doing this
another way to do it is to do what is called a paper litho which is a bit
more complex but is not toxic.
john c.
backwards on your block. Take your words or image make a zerox of it
and then transfer the zerox to your wood block. Transfering a image or text
from a zerox will make it backwards on your wood block.
This is how I do it.
1. tape zerox on to board face down.
2. rub the back of zerox with lacqur thinner
3 place a sheet plex glass or hard book board on top of the zerox
4. run it through my vandercook press
important to open a window when doing this
another way to do it is to do what is called a paper litho which is a bit
more complex but is not toxic.
john c.
Message 6
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:44:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 30370] reversing text and letters to a young artist
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On text written backwards...
You can write forwards on thin paper like tracing paper or sumi paper or the Hanshita paper you get from the baren mall , then glue it face down on the block. ( I use a magic marker to write with so I can see it well from the reverse side). When dry you can carefully rub off some of the back of the paper...or you can oil it to see the image better...and just carve through the paper....I know, this is really too easy. No chemicals involved and only rice paste as glue. Those old guys seem to have known what they were doing a couple of hundred years ago....we are just so darn stubborn, we want to make things faster, so that involves making it more difficult. Human nature and a great American cultural statement!
On another note.....
Has anyone read the letters to a young artist in "Art On Paper" this last month? If not I recommend it. I am not done as had other things I needed to accomplish today and limited energy to do them, but will finish it tonight. Very interesting to see what these life long artists have to say to one just starting out...."don't quit your day job" seems at the top of the list...and then the quote I like so far the best "artists are in the drivers seat", meaning they control the imagery of the world....quite a heady realization. So...friends, after you get done putting food on the table...go make more art! You are now the designated "boss"!
Best to all,
Barbara
You can write forwards on thin paper like tracing paper or sumi paper or the Hanshita paper you get from the baren mall , then glue it face down on the block. ( I use a magic marker to write with so I can see it well from the reverse side). When dry you can carefully rub off some of the back of the paper...or you can oil it to see the image better...and just carve through the paper....I know, this is really too easy. No chemicals involved and only rice paste as glue. Those old guys seem to have known what they were doing a couple of hundred years ago....we are just so darn stubborn, we want to make things faster, so that involves making it more difficult. Human nature and a great American cultural statement!
On another note.....
Has anyone read the letters to a young artist in "Art On Paper" this last month? If not I recommend it. I am not done as had other things I needed to accomplish today and limited energy to do them, but will finish it tonight. Very interesting to see what these life long artists have to say to one just starting out...."don't quit your day job" seems at the top of the list...and then the quote I like so far the best "artists are in the drivers seat", meaning they control the imagery of the world....quite a heady realization. So...friends, after you get done putting food on the table...go make more art! You are now the designated "boss"!
Best to all,
Barbara
Message 7
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:34:50 -0800
Subject: [Baren 30371] MCPP Numero Dos
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is HIGH TIME! for the next MCPP to begin, don't you
think? What? You don't know what the MCPP is????
The Monumental Collaborative Puzzle Project #1 home page is here, for those
who don't have a clue what I'm talking about:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/puzzle/project.html
Project #1 was enthusiastically coordinated by yours truly and printed with
the help of Barbara Mason, without whose contribution of time and fun I
might still be printing today. The Baren Puzzle included 44 printmakers from
all over the world and has been exhibited mostly by the infatigable Carol
Lyons in New Yawk venues.
So without further ado, I propose the next MCPP with much the same loose
conditions as the first Puzzle Print:
Guidelines for Project #2, The Baren Cairn:
EVERYONE IS INVITED! No limit on number of participants or corners of the
world
-This is not an officially sanctioned Baren exchange, but rather one of
those side projects we do to keep ourselves agonizingly busy with
printmaking activity
-Everyone will receive a smallish odd-shaped piece of wood to be designed
and carved and returned to the coordinator
-Coordinator arranges the pieces and prints the huge thing and returns two
prints to each participant
-Cost is shared in the form of pre-paid postage by each participant.
Voluntary contributions to share the cost of paper and other incidentals are
welcomed but not necessary (I mulled over a participation fee but discarded
it in favor of the previous generous voluntary contributions of able members
and not wanting to exclude anyone on account of financial hardship)
-Deadline is about a year from now, will set on the web page as soon as
people start signing up and we see what we have
THE THEME of this MCPP is "The Cairn", as tightly or loosely interpreted as
each participant wishes. Mostly described as a "pile of rocks", in my view
Baren is much like a Cairn, with all sorts of people coming and going and
everyone leaving their little stone as a marker, footprint, simple "I was
here", bit of guidance, pebble of wisdom, and an infinite etcetera. For much
more on the diverse nature and history of cairns, here is the ever helpful
Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn
PARTICIPANTS CAN SIGN UP through a form, rather than in an email, so I can
quickly and almost automatically insert their information in a database.
Sign up begins now and will end sometime when new sign ups dry up, about a
month from now:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/cairn/index.html
INFORMATION PAGE and the main project page will remain here, I will modify
as questions come up:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/cairn/index.html
All aboooooaaaaaaaaaaard!!!!
Maria
Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com
think? What? You don't know what the MCPP is????
The Monumental Collaborative Puzzle Project #1 home page is here, for those
who don't have a clue what I'm talking about:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/puzzle/project.html
Project #1 was enthusiastically coordinated by yours truly and printed with
the help of Barbara Mason, without whose contribution of time and fun I
might still be printing today. The Baren Puzzle included 44 printmakers from
all over the world and has been exhibited mostly by the infatigable Carol
Lyons in New Yawk venues.
So without further ado, I propose the next MCPP with much the same loose
conditions as the first Puzzle Print:
Guidelines for Project #2, The Baren Cairn:
EVERYONE IS INVITED! No limit on number of participants or corners of the
world
-This is not an officially sanctioned Baren exchange, but rather one of
those side projects we do to keep ourselves agonizingly busy with
printmaking activity
-Everyone will receive a smallish odd-shaped piece of wood to be designed
and carved and returned to the coordinator
-Coordinator arranges the pieces and prints the huge thing and returns two
prints to each participant
-Cost is shared in the form of pre-paid postage by each participant.
Voluntary contributions to share the cost of paper and other incidentals are
welcomed but not necessary (I mulled over a participation fee but discarded
it in favor of the previous generous voluntary contributions of able members
and not wanting to exclude anyone on account of financial hardship)
-Deadline is about a year from now, will set on the web page as soon as
people start signing up and we see what we have
THE THEME of this MCPP is "The Cairn", as tightly or loosely interpreted as
each participant wishes. Mostly described as a "pile of rocks", in my view
Baren is much like a Cairn, with all sorts of people coming and going and
everyone leaving their little stone as a marker, footprint, simple "I was
here", bit of guidance, pebble of wisdom, and an infinite etcetera. For much
more on the diverse nature and history of cairns, here is the ever helpful
Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn
PARTICIPANTS CAN SIGN UP through a form, rather than in an email, so I can
quickly and almost automatically insert their information in a database.
Sign up begins now and will end sometime when new sign ups dry up, about a
month from now:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/cairn/index.html
INFORMATION PAGE and the main project page will remain here, I will modify
as questions come up:
http://1000woodcuts.com/projects/cairn/index.html
All aboooooaaaaaaaaaaard!!!!
Maria
Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com
Message 8
From: "Angee Lennard"
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:58:08 -0600
Subject: [Baren 30372] Chop Mark Placement
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Is there a rule about where to put the chop mark on a print? Does it
go on the right, just below the print, where the signature usually is,
or does it go in the lower right hand corner of the paper, away from
the image???? -Angee
go on the right, just below the print, where the signature usually is,
or does it go in the lower right hand corner of the paper, away from
the image???? -Angee
Message 9
From: Blog Manager
Date: 20 Mar 2006 04:55:05 -0000
Subject: [Baren 30373] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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This is an automatic update message being sent to [Baren] by the forum blog software.
The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (14 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)
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Site Name: Flights of Art
Author: Carol
Item: Sunday, still printing!!!
http://artflights.blogspot.com/2006/03/sunday-still-printing.html
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The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (14 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)
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Site Name: Flights of Art
Author: Carol
Item: Sunday, still printing!!!
http://artflights.blogspot.com/2006/03/sunday-still-printing.html
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[Baren] members: if you have a printmaking blog (or a website with a published ATOM feed), and wish it to be included in this daily checklist, please write to the Baren Blog Manager at:
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