Archived [Baren] Digests

Volume #56 (July '11 ~ Sept. '11 )

#5664

Exchange #50 Sign-Up begins July 1, members' blogs...

#5665

Exchange #50 Sign-up now open, members' blogs...

#5666

Curt Teich postcard competition, members' blogs...

#5667

Member's blog

#5668

Member's blog

#5669

Printmaking with children, Annie Bissett print on cover of print journal, Japan benefit question re cost of prints, members' blogs...

#5670

Archivist reminder -- please title posts, printmaking with children, suggested price for fundraiser prints...

#5671

Pricing for Japan fundraiser prints, blog changes, members' blogs...

#5672

Marilynn Smith thanks Bareners for help re printmaking with children, link to book artist's site, how to ship prints, Visa's print used as set dressing for tv program...

#5673

Shipping prints, question re silver powder, Japan benefit update, Barbara's print, mezzotints, Chinese woodblock print exhibition...

#5674

Barbara's print, comments by Sharen on Chinese woodblock prints on exhibition, Exchange #49 question, Patti Phare-Camp to be near Ft. Campbell - wants to meet Bareners, Barbara suggestion discussion re cost of prints...

#5675

Colophon info needed for Japan Benefit project, discussion re pricing for benefit prints, advice needed re damp paper...

#5676

Pricing, colophon, members' blogs...

#5677

Inspired by Japan price page, Exchange #49 deadline for dropping out, members' blogs...

#5678

Keeping paper damp, member's blog

#5679

Inspired by Japan print from South Africa, member's blog

#5680

Members' blogs

#5681

Inspired by Japan benefit update from Barbara

#5682

Address for sending prints, question re provision for selling benefit prints directly from gallery, clarification: Japanese Ambassador (not Minister) to open benefit exhibition in South Africa...

#5683

Message for Masako regarding exhibit, Le Green must drop out of benefit, request for address to send prints, Linda Beeman sees Chinese exhibit in Ann Abor, members' blogs

#5684

Guadalupe thanks Masako for organizing print exhibit in South Africa, question: Is there a catalog for Multiple Impressions exhibit in Ann Arbor, member's blog

#5685

Encouragement to send prints to benefit exhibit in South Africa, catalog for Chinese woodblock print exhibit, concern over arrival of prints, members' blogs...

#5686

Fourth Printmaking Collective 2012, etching press for sale, members' blogs...

#5687

Member's blog

#5688

Benefit for Japan update, thanks to Barbara, members' blogs...

#5689

Barener seeks advice re selling work, thanks to Barbara, info re making a living selling art, Exchange #49 update, members' blogs...

#5690

Name missing on brochure, selling artwork for a living, members' blogs...

#5691

Art as sole source of income, Portland newspaper has article on "Inspired by Japan" project

#5692

Visit to British Columbia by Melissa West looking to hook up with Bareners, members' blogs...

#5693

Check Google for Printmaking galleries in Vancouver, BC, Japanese benefit print question from Jean Womack...

#5694

Question for Barbara, Sharen needs contact with Kalle P in South Africa

#5695

Baren Inspired by Japan project listed on website of the Oregonian, new member David Frederick (intro), Mark Phillips print and technology project (inspired by Mike Lyon), member's blog

#5696

Welcome to Baren, brief appreciative comments, members' blogs...

#5697

Japan Relief exhibit coming to gallery in Michigan, Inspired by Japan colophons updated on website, exhibits, members' blogs...

#5698

Suggestion for organizing Inspired by Japan prints for sale on website, "Ndebele artwork" correction needed, Exchange 50 update, questions re prints on website, Barbara Carr's work received in Johannesburg, South Africa, details of exhibit in Johannesburg, member's blog...

#5699

Voting re all participants to make as many prints as there are people signed up for Exchange #50, "blooper" on colophon explained, members' blogs

#5700

Votes for doing full tiny print exchange, questions re printing problems, members' blog...

#5701

Prints for Japan show, questions re printing, Bareners answer, votes, members' blogs...

#5702

Drying prints, 7 Japan prints sold so far in Bend, printing on wet paper with etching inks ...

#5703

Drying prints on a wire rack, links to how Marimekko fabrics were printed, members' blogs...

#5704

Blotters and where to buy them, dampening paper, offsetting, members' blogs...

#5705

Keeping track of prints and sales, link to Ukiyo-e article on Kyoto Guide website, ink viscosity question, Bareners Linda Beeman and Ruth Egnater to exhibit Relief for Japan prints and seek advice, member's blog...

#5706

Bareners discuss their methods of keeping track of print sales, hanga prints and a press, members' blogs...

#5707

Question re worth of Vandercook Press and cabinets of type, keeping track of prints/sales, Exchange #50 update -- 100 tiny prints, link to photos of Japan fundraiser party, help with press and cabinets of type question...

#5708

Letterpress list serve may help with Vandercook Press questions, keeping track of editions, Inspired by Japan fundraising page for event in Michigan, members' blogs...

#5709

Member's blog

#5710

Japan benefit update from Barbara, shipping costs, update from Masako, member's blog...

#5711

Rakesh Bani Japan Relief print, registration problem, Art Studio in Japan, members' blogs...

#5712

Postal service in South Africa unreliable, request for web page listing Inspired by Japan exhibition shows, request for print dimensions to show on webpage for Japan Relief prints, member's blog...

#5713

Black and white prints, registration

#5714

Black and white prints, mylar for transfer with fast drying ink, meaning of "pounce", multi-color prints, members' blogs...

#5715

Line and color, transfer, Japan or cobalt drier, ink trapping, magnesium carbonate or talc for reducing tack, member's blog...

#5716

Bareners discuss Gillyin's theory re black and white prints containing color, member's blog...

#5717

More discussion on artists' preferences for either color or black and white prints, MDF vs masonite as tympan, members' blogs...

#5718

Types of tympans and their purposes, print upside down, unwanted ink outline when printing colors over one another, "printing sandwich" using matboard and rubber blankets, checking pressure, black and white vs color, members' blogs...

#5719

Questions for Joan re chine colle, Maria finds plagiarism in artists' blogs, comment on black and white discussion, update on upcoming Lansing exhibit, rubber blanket and engraving works well, question re blocks when finished with them...

#5720

New uses for old blocks...

#5721

Members' blogs...

#5722

MDF boards for moku hanga trial, what to do with carved blocks when finished with them, cheap computer program needed, scanner suggested, request from moderator re posting to Baren...

#5723

Computer programs for resizing imagery, members' blogs...

#5724

Resizing images, oak/storing blocks, member's blog...

#5725

Drypoint woodblock printing, oak, resizing drawings, member's blog...

#5726

Member's blog

#5727

Members' blogs

#5728

Copyright, make-ready and color blending, Exchange #48 gallery update, members' blogs...

#5729

Copyright, archiving prints, members' blogs...

#5730

Widening/expanding rainbow roll, Inkling, archiving huge prints, copyright, prolific, feather roll...

#5731

Widening/expanding rainbow roll, edition storage, link to Karen Kunc video demo re rainbow rolls, adhesives spreading trick, members' blogs...

#5732

Annie's print, storing prints between mattresses, cone-shaped roller

#5733

Exchange #49 drop out, Marilynn's tigers mailed, etching ink for relief prints preferred by Marilynn...

#5734

Sharen's "Cherry Blossom" print arrived in South Africa, 19 prints sold, good luck, members' blogs...

#5735

Widening/expanding rainbow roll, pounce brushes and stencils, question re tiny print exchange, monoprint made with brushes, members' blogs...

#5736

Annie thanks Bareners for tips re archiving large prints, stencil brush for color blending, wrapped chopsticks, new member intro...

#5737

Shipping prints overseas in a tube, welcome to new member Gretchen Greene, new member intro -- Larry Pinto, Canadian landscape prints, Japan fundraiser update...

#5738

Welcome to Larry Pinto, thanks re shipping-in-tubes info, Walter Phillips' prints, link to Olek Wozniak's woodblock book, save money by shipping tubed prints in box, members' blogs...

#5739

Rakesh's print arrives in Johannesburg, congrats to Olek, Phil asks Bareners for tricks to portray water, paper calculator, print shows in Chicago, member's blog...

#5740

Update Exchange #50, international exhibition for printmaking, Japan Relief prints update/Japanese Consulate...

#5741

Exchange #50, correction re number of prints to be made for Exchange #50, request for photos of Japan Relief portfolio being accepted by Depty Council General of Japan...

#5742

Member's blog

#5743

Tiny Print Exchange (#50) update re sending return label and postage, members' blogs

#5744

Oldfield Press Saltaire Arts Fair update, Hamilton Wood Type Museum/Target collaboration creates unique clothing design, members' blogs...

#5745

Touching up prints, Oldfield Press update, ink for fabric, address problem, kitchen lithography, members' blogs...

#5746

Drying time, kitchen lithography, retouching prints, resolving problem of bits of wood in ink, member's blog...

#5747

Drying time, getting rid of tiny bits of wood left on carved board, Mythology exchange appeciated/links to photos of Carol and Bill Lyons, minimum drying time, oil-based etching ink for kitchen lito...

#5748

Checking for dryness of prints, baking print in 200 degree F for drying, clothes dryer, properly drying ink...

#5749

Specks in printing, checking for ink dryness, suggestion: candy box for mailing tiny prints, downside of cobalt dryer, link to handbook for kitchen litho, members' blogs...

#5750

Ink on tshirts, litho video, either litho crayons or castile soap for kitchen litho, water based ink won't work for litho, old version of Paint Shop Pro disk offered, soap not lard or Crisco, Impact7 in Melbourne...

#5751

Looking for examples where printmakers have worked together to save wildlife, moist vs damp paper for multi-layered reduction prints, type of soap for litho, member's blog...

#5752

Ethical question re numbering prints, wet or dry paper for reduction prints, update on Johannesburg exhibition of Inspired by Japan prints, shipping prints question...

#5753

Congrats re Inspired by Japan exhibit in Johannesburg, never use foamcore to ship, exhibit photos can go on Baren website, Harper College -- Inspired by Japan prints, members' blogs...

#5754

Inspired by Japan -- Michigan exhibit -- 15 sold, members' blog...

#5755

Sarah Hauser and Diane Cutter's rabbit prints, member's blog

#5756

Members blogs...

#5757

Scam, Exchange #51 open on Saturday, October 1, member's blog

#5758

Exchange #50 RSVP, plywood veneer, scam, Exchange #48 ready for viewing, members' blogs...

#5759

Marilynn Smith reports her exchange progress and process, Wouter reports in re Exchange #50, members' blogs...