Today's postings

  1. [Baren 45161] Thank you, Diane! Exchange 52 still has spaces (Lawrence H Pinto)
  2. [Baren 45162] Re: Exchange 52 still has spaces (Diane Cutter)
  3. [Baren 45163] Endangered (ArtfulCarol # aol.com)
  4. [Baren 45164] Re: Endangered ("Bea Gold")
  5. [Baren 45165] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Lawrence H Pinto
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:12:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45161] Thank you, Diane! Exchange 52 still has spaces
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Dear Diane,

Thank you very much for volunteering to be the coordinator. It requires a lot of patience and I, a newcomer to exchanges, really appreciate it.

Last week I went to our place in remote Northern Ontario and finished printing the edition for this exchange, surrounded by the endangered place the print is about. I'm looking forward to sending it to you when you're ready to receive the prints.

Thanks again,

Larry
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Message 2
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:19:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45162] Re: Exchange 52 still has spaces
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Larry... You will be the winner of the Externally Grateful award given to the first prints to arrive each exchange. Just kidding but, truly, if all are as excited as you about this Endangered exchange, it may be one of the first in a long time to get back to the participants early.

Graham... So glad you are on board for exchange 52. I always enjoy your work and your much valued information in the various threads.


Diane

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www.theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
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Message 3
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:07:16 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45163] Endangered
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Did you already mention that Endangered was a Baren Exchange years ago, .
2001-- 9 and 9a.?

Lots of interesting prints there and more to come in 20012.

Carol Lyons
_ http://rst-art.com/carolgallery.htm#WOODCUTS_
(http://rst-art.com/carolgallery.htm#WOODCUTS)
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Message 4
From: "Bea Gold"
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:21:35 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45164] Re: Endangered
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I was coordinator, 27, and so many people wanted to do it that a Refuses one was started by Dan Dew in Florida.
Bea Gold It was a great exchange.



From: ArtfulCarol@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 8:07 AM
To: baren@ml.asahi-net.or.jp
Subject: [Baren 45163] Endangered


Did you already mention that Endangered was a Baren Exchange years ago, . 2001-- 9 and 9a.?

Lots of interesting prints there and more to come in 20012.

Carol Lyons
http://rst-art.com/carolgallery.htm#WOODCUTS

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Subject: Today's view ...
Posted by: Dave Bull

Can't understand why nobody but me showed up for work today!


This item is taken from the blog Woodblock RoundTable.
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Subject: Flat File Print Show in Maine
Posted by: Annie B


A flat file is a system of shallow drawers designed to store artwork. In recent years, flat file has also come to mean a collection of unframed works on paper which are available for viewing by collectors, scholars, curators, or others who might be interested. For a couple of years I've had work housed in the Zea Mays Printmaking flat file in Florence, Massachusetts, where curators recently visited to make selections for a new exhibition in Portland, Maine. I'm happy to say that my woodblock print Borders #3: Israel/Palestine was selected.

The exhibition, called Print/Counter-Print, promises to be a printmaking extravaganza. In addition to work from the Zea Mays flat file, Rose Contemporary gallery in Portland will also be showing works selected from the flat files of the Peregrine Press and the new Maine College of Art Flat File Project featuring work by printmaking students. 

You can see an online preview of the 60 or so works that were selected to be displayed at this link. In addition to the displayed works, Rose Contemporary will have more work by each of the participating artists available for sale and public viewing in a special flat file at the gallery for the duration of the exhibit, so don't forget to ask to . . .
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Subject: Slippershod (not slipshod) work
Posted by: Sherrie Y

It's a little frustrating to look out my studio windows into swirling snow when friends elsewhere are posting images of blooming daffodils and greening grass. Such is the way of spring in the high country. (sigh)

But these are the sorts of days in which I am grateful that both the DM and I can work at home. A cup of tea and my slippers are all I really need to get down to business.

This morning it's the business of contemplation. The goldeneye piece ("No Time Like the Present") has been waiting patiently for resolution, and the new piece I'm working on has reached the inevitable "What next?" stage. Decision-making time looms.

I messed around with additional colors in the figure of the goldeneye but didn't like the result... today I think I'll try a few additions in the water and see what happens. Ultimately I think the piece will probably stand as is, but I need to satisfy myself that I've explored other possibilities.


Meanwhile, the new linocut in progress is also of waterfowl. I'm feeling superstitious about showing much, despite the fact the piece is at least ten colors along! I am pleased with the way the birds have developed, but the rest of it is a big question mark. For now all you get are the first two colors, applied again with the use of a stencil (yeah, I've been diggin' this stencil business).

So I'm off to stare at blocks and prints and tools as I search for the next steps in both of these images. If you hear a cry of "Eureka!" and see some ratty slippers tossed into the air, you'll know I've found what I'm looking for.

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Update: I added one more color to the top edge of the goldeneye piece today. I struggle to get a good shot of blues with a digital camera, but here's the final version of "No Time Like the Present."




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