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Volume #6 (Jan. '99 ~ )

#393
Video recommendation, insecurity and inspiration ...
#394
Editor's note: Due to extreme time pressure during my 'exhibition season' I am unable to index these Archives at the moment. I'll get back to it when I can spare a bit more time ... Thank you for your patience!
#395
#396
#397
#398
#399
#400
#401
#402
#403
#404
#405
#406
#407
#408
#409
#410
#411
#412
#413
#414
#415
#416
#417
Hiroshige exhibition, woodblock preparation, Exchange discussion ...
#418
Woodblock preparation - kiln-drying vs air drying, visiting Dave's show, more about block preparation, Southern Graphics Council ...
#419
Lots more about woodblock preparation, printing 'gold', problems with printing overlaid colours ...
#420
More about logs to lumber, refinishing rollers, Dave's reprinting problem, finding books, ...
#421
Bit more about logs to lumber, Hideshi visits Dave's exhibition and asks some questions, inking rollers, colours offsetting, Hideshi-san's new print ...
#422
Bit more colours offsetting, book finding, pigment formulations, laminated hanshita ...
#423
Hideshi's print and the block, Shimano san passes away, bit more on colours offsetting, book finding, pigment formulations ...
#424
Using methyl cellulose, drills for carving ...
#425
Bit more about using methyl cellulose, drills for carving, new wood supplier ...
#426
Still more about using methyl cellulose, quote from Jack Shadbolt...
#427
Using Dremel tools, new press supplier (Polymetaal), question on cutting plywood ...
#428
The PanAm Print Exhibition, lots of answers about cutting plywood, announcing [Baren After Five], are Graham's prints too big? ...
#429
Bit more about cutting plywood, standard print sizes, comments about [Baren After Five] ...
#430
Blacker blacks (sumi concentrate), supplier comparisons ...
#431
Using Arches 88, using glycerin? ...
#432
Bit more on blacker blacks, Dave gets board ...
#433
More about Dave's board, a print exhibition announcement, computer generated images acceptable in exhibition? ...
#434
Bit more about colours offsetting, water vs oil?, responses to yesterday's 'computer generated images' question ...
#435
Graham's workshop, Katherine McKay's workshops, paper sizing, acid free matting tape, insect craftsmen ...
#436
Paper this and that, new member ...
#437
Boxwood inlays, baren skins, Yoshida book, sneak preview of the exchange prints ...
#438
Jim's press, alternative baren covers, more about matting tape ...
#439
More about alternative baren covers, best tape for hinges ...
#440
Visit to Hodaka Yoshida, administrative concerns ...
#441
Value of the one-point lessons, just _what_ is it that makes a suitable wood? ...
#442
Synthetic substitutes vs tradition ...
#443
Dave replies (!) to synthetic substitutes vs tradition, baren tying, new member, gradation techniques?, buying barens ...
#444
More on synthetic substitutes vs tradition, 'laser' carving ...
#445
List of printmaking workshops ...
#446
Heat-sensitive block transfers ...
#447
Bit more on heat-sensitive block transfers, book finding ...
#448
Wood-patching trouble, WJ Phillips prints ...
#449
Bit more about wood-patching, mounting prints on silk? ...
#450
Bit more about mounting prints on silk, press recommendations, David and the 'atedai' ...
#451
Press vs baren, mounting prints on silk ...
#452
Not much of anything in this digest ...
#453
Vandercooks, rice paste, teaching children?, press vs baren, recovering the baren, ink running? ...
#454
A good, meaty digest: why sizing?, avoiding blots, dry paper - wet paper? ...
#455
Dry paper - wet paper? ...
#456
Bit more on dry paper - wet paper?, pricing prints, avoiding blots, baren tying tips ...
#457
Acetate masks, art vs craft, new member ...
#458
Woods and wood supply, bit more on art vs craft, alum?, printmaking too difficult? ...
#459
Alum, printmaking too difficult? ...
#460
Bit more on alum, printmaking too difficult, Dremel tools, basswood, wood suppliers, questions on barens ... ink layers ... brush softening ...
#461
Ball-bearing baren, brush softening, Canadian artists, new member, ink buildup solutions, interesting websites ...
#462
Constantine's ...
#463
Brush preparation, questions on pigments and colour separations, discussion on pigments and light-fastness ...
#464
More on brush preparation, B&W vs colour, discussion on pigments and light-fastness continues, board feet calculation, ball-bearing baren, ...
#465
Still more on pigments and light-fastness, brush preparation ...
#466
Lots more on brush preparation and sharkskins, bit more on pigments, ...
#467
Brush preparation and sharkskins continues, web site recommendations, mezzotint rocker, Graham's exhibition plans ...
#468
Using a scraper blade? ...
#469
Using a scraper blade, the exchange nears completion, web site update ...
#470
Plane vs scraper, Graham's workshop ...
#471
No woodblock content ...
#472
Still more about plane vs scraper, site updates, exchange planning, ftp info ...
#473
Dieu Donne workshops, exchange feedback ...
#474
Exchange feedback, message from Kampala ...
#475
Exchange feedback, washi website, new member ...
#476
Exchange feedback, using an etching press for woodblocks, slide show Applet, Hideshi's paper supplier ...
#477
Using an etching press, Dave's paper ...
#478
Mounting prints on silk, Noboru Sawai?, gampi paper, more etching press details ...
#479
More on gampi papers, Noboru Sawai, ...
#480
Paper supplier, etching press stuff, new member, exchange feedback ...
#481
Linseed oil, exchange feedback ...
#482
More exchange feedback, etching press use, the One-Point Lessons return ...
#483
One-Point Lesson feedback, a new printmakers list, block shrinkage ...
#484
Patrick Press, exchange folio goes on line, Fleisher Art Memorial ...
#485
Etching press micro gauges, press blankets, bit more about Fleisher, exchange folio feedback ...
#486
More folio feedback, plate oil?, Encyclopedia update, Bill's 'Living Print' ...
#487
Responses on plate oil, Bill's 'Living Print' ...
#488
Still more on inks and oils, announcing the next exchange ...
#489
Intaglio relief printing ...
#490
Viscosity printing, What's [Baren] for? ...
#491
Discussion of 'What's [Baren] for'? ...
#492
The discussion continues ...
#493
and continues ...
#494
and continues..., Discussion of exchange prints, website update, video available ...
#495
Discussion of exchange prints continues, student grade barens? ...
#496
More about student grade barens, dangerous pigments?, pigment and paste preparation, Japanese prints in Hawaii ...
#497
Daniel Smith changes, transparency, One-Point lesson - Moistening the printing brush ...
#498
Brush moistening, baren recommendations, two new members, Maria's prints, transparent inks, next exchange sign-up ...
#499
Michael's 'carving', dry/wet brushes, student barens, dry pigments ...
#500
Transparent acrylics, brush miscellaneous, NM print exhibition ...
#501
Prints on ebay?, another carver passes away ...
#502
Michael's print process, removing spots ...
#503
20th Century American Woodblock Prints Exhibition, Meiji-era carvers, Society of Wood Engravers - new book ...
#504
Hideshi's exhibition, 'rice paper', Southern Graphics Council, relief printing on plastic, One-Point Lesson - Block 'plugging', Brad's new printmakers list ...
#505
Southern Graphics Council, paste, Daniel's Exhibition ...
#506
Rice/wheat paste, Shireen's books, Maria's web site ...
#507
Bit more about paste ... binders, gallery recommendation ...
#508
Paste ... binders ... glues ...
#509
Maria's prints, pastes/binders/glues, pigment in alcohol, ...

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