Today's postings

  1. [Baren 38503] Re: Wrong Link/last post Watercolor or color plates (Diana Moll)
  2. [Baren 38504] Exchange 39 (Jennifer Martindale)
  3. [Baren 38505] Re: annies blog (aqua4tis # aol.com)
  4. [Baren 38506] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints..... (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
  5. [Baren 38507] Re: exchange #39 ("Nancy O")
  6. [Baren 38508] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints..... (Diane Cutter)
  7. [Baren 38509] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints..... (Elizabeth Atwood)
  8. [Baren 38510] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints..... (Graham Scholes)
  9. [Baren 38511] SGC and Steamroller prints - larger font ? (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
  10. [Baren 38512] Re: Font sizes..... (Diane Cutter)
  11. [Baren 38513] RE: New Baren meet at Southern graphics (Le Green)
  12. [Baren 38514] Re: Making a Mark ("Oscar Bearinger")
  13. [Baren 38515] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Diana Moll
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:58:35 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38503] Re: Wrong Link/last post Watercolor or color plates
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Hmm, they both look good, but with the print color then the color
sinks into the paper more and meshes with the Sumi more....Sweet
wedding present!
-Diana
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Message 2
From: Jennifer Martindale
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:38:26 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38504] Exchange 39
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My little corner of the Moku Hanga wood has arrived in Dorset. Thank you to everyone for their tree, and especially to the co-ordinator. It is so good to handle each print and gain a lesson in paper types and inks. The collection is an education in itself. If you ever do a moku hanga one again, count me in. One question, how do you all manage to produce such 'clean' prints, with no splodges in the edges etc?
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Message 3
From: aqua4tis # aol.com
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:39:02 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38505] Re: annies blog
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i dont know how to reply to a blog so i have to do it here????? sorry
annie
?? your abe is fabulous and very clever. i really love your work
georga
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Message 4
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:45:35 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38506] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints.....
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Le writes:
"StoneMetal Press will have a table at the vendor fair in Chicago for the
SGC, and I will be chairing the Performance Prints panel at 1:30 on
Thursday.
We will present our woodcuts done on stage by dancers, and several
Steamroller print events."

There is a new video link on the Baren blog about a 100 foot-long
collaboration print. The print was created by a group of Latino artist in
Minnesota to
celebrate "El Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead).

http://barenforum.org/blog/

I am going to try to make it downtown for the SGC but my schedule is a bit
tough right now....if any bareners reading this and attending could please
take some photos of any events and send them my way I'll put them up on
the blog for all to see.......


thanks.........Julio
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Message 5
From: "Nancy O"
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:15:51 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38507] Re: exchange #39
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Mine arrived yesterday..such a great variety of interpretations of the theme! Wonderful.

Nancy O
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Message 6
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:16:05 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38508] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints.....
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Just a comment on font sizes... I can't read Le's comment because it's way too small. Is there a way I can make it bigger?


Diane (who uses oversized fonts)

www.dianecutter.com
www.theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
www.DCutter.etsy.com
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Message 7
From: Elizabeth Atwood
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:02:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38509] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints.....
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Diane..............
Your computer manual will tell you how to enlarge anything on your
screen.
Don't know why some messages are sent so miniature.
Puzzle!
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Message 8
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:08:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38510] Re: SGC and Large steamroller prints.....
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You make a good point Diane

All mail application have a button that makes font a bigger size.
The sender has control over this, and the receiver can adjust the sizes

I suggest that if you are a sender you consider changing the default
in the font preference to read....
Verdana 14 or ... 15 (that is what this is).
I note that Le’s is 10 pt Monaco... and Julio’s reply is in 12 pt
Helvetica....
Both are very hard to read.... particularly Helvetica which so
condensed making it very hard to read.as illustrated. It is the pt
size that should be at least 14 pt making most fonts readable.

To increase the size of font in a e-mail there will possibly be a
button in the menu bar that sez “Large Smaller“. If not go to the
menu of your mail program and look for Customize Toolbar. In there
you can drag and dropo the button you want to your e-mail window and
voila ... your in business to change the font size....

If anyone with a Mac has problems with this send me an e-mail and I
will help you.
Sorry I do not work with the windoz dinosaur computer. (
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Message 9
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:41:13 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38511] SGC and Steamroller prints - larger font ?
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Le writes:
"StoneMetal Press will have a table at the vendor fair in Chicago for the
SGC, and I will be chairing the Performance Prints panel at 1:30 on
Thursday.
We will present out woodcuts doneon stage by dancers, and several
Steamroller print events."

There is a new video link on the Baren blog about a 100 foot-long
collaboration print. The print was created by a group of Latino artist in
Minnesota to
celebrate "El Dia de los Muertos" (Day of the Dead).

http://barenforum.org/blog/

I am going to try to make it downtown for the SGC but my schedule is a bit
tough right now....if any bareners reading this and attending could please
take some photos of any events and send them my way I'll put them up on
the blog for all to see.......

thanks.........Julio
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Message 10
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:20:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38512] Re: Font sizes.....
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Thank you to all for the font sizing information (David, Graham, Elizabeth, and dear Julio, for making his message larger)...

You've all graciously made me smarter. I learned something new, mainly that the ability and information was there all along. I appreciate the guidance from all of you... I can see again!!! LOL LOL

For those of you who have Mozilla Firefox yahoo mail, there's a 'zoom' feature under the 'View' tab. Who knew?!? I will go to my corner and read and will never complain again about font sizes!!!


Diane

www.dianecutter.com
www.theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
www.DCutter.etsy.com
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Message 11
From: Le Green
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:58:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38513] RE: New Baren meet at Southern graphics
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Hi!., I am hoping for a Baren meet up in Chicago.. sounds great, there were 2 suggestions. Lets try to meet both times? Please help me out, though. I have “face blindness”, where a person has trouble recognizing
people that they know. It has been a little better lately, but can be so bad I can’t
recognize my own daughter (she will be around to testify to this!) Please let me know who you are, and please do not take offense if
I do not recognize you shortly thereafter…
especially if you change clothes or we move to a different room. Claudia g. coonensuggested: meet in what ever is the back right corner at 9:30

at the Complimentary Coffee and Pastries

Location: Columbia College, Hokin Gallery, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st floor

Date: Thursday, March 26, Time: 9 am - Noon

AND
Lester made another meeting suggestion:

to get together just before the Satisfaction
Town event on Thursday March 27, 2009? It starts at 5pm and goes to

8pm in Columbia College's Conaway Center, 1104 South Wabash Ave, ground

floor?
Below are the Bareners I saw coming in the digest that will be at the conference. I Anyone else?
Lester, Sharen, Mike, Karma, Dean, John, Angee, Joseph, Julio, Claudia, & me (Le)
Le Green Schubert
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Message 12
From: "Oscar Bearinger"
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:50:51 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38514] Re: Making a Mark
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Carole
Your OX card arrived here a week ago, thank you very much!
Thanks also for the Making a Mark URL, some interesting info there for sure.

My OX will meander over to your place sometime (not soon)!

And enjoy the southern sun.

Oscar

Digest Appendix

Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...

Subject: Two Dragons One Pearl
Posted by: Pistoles Press


I started this little number while I carve the Limulus block. When I get tired of carving wood I begin to pluck linoleum and visa versa. This project is also a farmer's market venture. I LOVE books with beautiful covers depicting mysterious places and curious things and I am hoping that someone else will too. I have decided to design three book covers for journals that capture this enthusiasm and go further if the market allows. They will all be key block images that will be inked up in tint base and then dusted with gold or silver powder to create a gilded look. I have a deep red paper for this image and it will be dusted in gold. I'm also excited to use my Vandercook for this. I LOVE using my presses. This block image has given me some relief from the Limulus print as I'm starting to go stir crazy with the DNA and geometrical stars. The repetition is mind numbing and I have a feeling it has contributed to my recent clumsiness. The organic shapes of the twisting dragons with their snarling teeth and liquid flames and helped relieve my brain of the monotony in the Limulus border. I can't wait to finish it and proof it up!
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Subject: Foot Bridge With Hand Rail
Posted by: Sharri

My last post had to do with the April exhibition at North Bank Gallery, Maps and Bridges.  Since I had a Maps piece I thought I would do a Bridge piece, too.  Naturally, as it would to anyone, my first thought was to do a Foot Bridge with Hand Rail.  This is a color intaglio print.  The green texture is printed on both sides of a very thin mulberry paper and the white foot and hands are chine collé with another mulberry paper.  Both of these, after their run through the press, are put through the press one more time to laminate them to a sheet of Somerset Satin and emboss the plate mark.  You just gotta love a language that allows you play with it so freely, don't you?  Some other ideas, which unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, depending  upon your viewpoint, were: Bridge hand,  Bridge game, Bridge rubber (now that one I thought had great possibilities), from there on they went steadily down hill...  I think I will quit while I'm ahead.

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