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Message 1
From: Bette Norcross Wappner
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:58:43 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26504] Re: drawing and painting...
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>
>The current project under production is a brush painting on large
>paper (66" x 22" image) in 14 shades of sumi -- a 200 x 600 bitmap of
>the 'plan' is displayed to the right of the web-cam view at
>http://lyonstudio.inetcam.com/ --
>
>.......and I imagine that the drawing which falls out of this highly
>analytical process will be almost as interesting as the process itself!
>
>
>Mike
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Mike.......you cease to amaze us with your ideas and
inventions!....wonderful process and beautiful images :)

Bette Wappner
northern Kentucky
bettewappner@fuse.net
http://www.SimplyHaiku.com

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Message 2
From: Bette Norcross Wappner
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:16:09 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26505] Re: Harry goes to school
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>The day's print extravaganza has been uploaded for your perusal and
>amusement. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/SAINTPETERS.htm
>
>Baren school teachers may be interested to see what English art and
>design education (4years to 14 years) is all about by logging onto
>http://www.ncaction.org.uk/subjects/art/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Harry - Thanks for the links and wonderful photos of the kids! This is
such a great opportunity that you have given to them to learn and
hopefully to inspire printmakers-to-be. Wish I could have been there
too!

I'm also impressed with Frank Trueba's invitation to the kids to trade
his prints with theirs. My hats off to the both of you :)

Warm wishes,
Bette Wappner
northern Kentucky
bettewappner@fuse.net

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Message 3
From: "Maria Diener (aka Arango)"
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:31:55 -0800
Subject: [Baren 26506] announcement and call for help
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Fellow bareners, I have an announcement and a not unrelated call for help.

First the announcement, I have the honor of having received a commission
from the Nevada Arts Council to create six woodblock/prints for the
Governor's Art Awards. I am thrilled as this means woodcuts will be the
"talk of the town" for a little while in the who's who in art in the lowly
state of Nevada.

Not unrelated, I have to throw in the towel once more on being the Barensuji
Newsletter editor. I have not produced a newsletter since early this year
and I am just too busy to find the time. Contributions have been mostly
announcements and we really need a person who will take the time to search
for and/or write articles of interest to our membership.

With that, I am perfectly willing to continue the upkeep of the Barensuji
mailing list and the e-mailings themselves. However I can no longer produce
the newsletter. Ideally, a new volunteer will have HTML knowledge enough to
format the newsletter so that it is "publication ready".
Barensuji has been named a quarterly but I have been lax; again, ideally our
new editor should produce one newsletter per quarter.

We have around 300 subscribers and get many comments on how informative and
useful the newsletter has become. Content is mostly about woodblock
printmaking techniques and the "pulse" of Baren (what's going on with the
group and its members). Anyone thinking about it might want to look at past
issues to get a good feel for what Barensuji entails.

If anyone is interested in becoming the next Barensuji editor, please email
me off list and we can chat about the specifics. The position is paid with
immense gratitude of the members :-)

Apologies to the membership.

Maria

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Message 4
From: "Joseph Sheridan"
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:23:37 -0600
Subject: [Baren 26507] Re: Woodblock Tool Set
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These tools look like the chisels sold under the "POWER GRIP" brand.
I think they work great for starters and give the user an idea how each tools work.
Joe S.
----
>From: Mike Lyon
>Subject: [Baren 26501] Re: Woodblock Tool Set
>Yup --
>http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?SID=&ccurrency=2&page=44106&category=1,130,43332,43334
>but I think these are the same tools as the others I recommended? Just at
>a higher price? Maybe not... Yes, these are the ones!
>
>-- Mike

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Message 5
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:27:46 -0800
Subject: [Baren 26508] Re: announcement and call for help
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CONGRATULATIONS MARIA !!!!! What a great recognition for your work.

Cheers .... Charles

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Message 6
From: Aqua4tis # aol.com
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:39:16 EST
Subject: [Baren 26509] Re: announcement and call for help
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congrats maria and happy thanksgiving everyone
georga

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Message 7
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:59:35 -0600
Subject: [Baren 26510] Re: drawing and painting...
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Bette wrote:
>Mike.......you cease to amaze us with your ideas and
>inventions!....wonderful process and beautiful images :)
>Bette Wappner

I've ceased to amaze you??? :-) Well, maybe the current one will amaze
you -- or I better shut-up and limit myself to more woodblock-related
postings! Same image of Jessica half-turned in a polka-dotted robe -- I'm
making a strip of paintings on the same large paper right now... Using a
watercolor brush (the one pictured) and pressing the brush deeper into the
paper in the dark places (raising and lowering the brush in proportion to
the gray values in the image map)... between 25,000 and 160,000
instructions all 'generated' from the bitmap using Visual Basic program to
produce the machine code for my machine... The brush paints and AMAZingly
consistent line width and the finished paintings are a bit boring, maybe,
due to the evenness of the brushed rasters, but it's been a challenging
process in every respect and satisfying in spite of the less-than-artistic
renderings...

Next trial will be using a somewhat randomly meandering brush path while
retaining the very accurate rendering of the gray tones by raising and
lowering the brush (a small watercolor round)... You may be able to
'see' the thing in process here: http://lyonstudio.inetcam.com/

Well, _I_ think it's all WAY cool, of course!

Best,

Mike


Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com

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Message 8
From: Bette Norcross Wappner
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:16:43 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26511] Re: drawing and painting...
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Mike---
eh hem......I meant......."You NEVER cease to amaze us!" amazing how
the absence of one word can change a sentence greatly. hey, mike,
before computer graphics, i remember seeing a calligraphy machine
similar to your design. it gives the carpel tunnel afflicted wrists a
break, yet is still limited in free flourished designs, is a clever tool
when you don't have a cute "handy-dandy" real calligrapher around :)
None-the-less, your's is a genuis design! Bette :)

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Message 9
From: Bette Norcross Wappner
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:28:46 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26512] Happy Thanksgiving & Season's Greetings to all
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Happy Thanksgiving and Season's Greetings to all Baren Members!

a hokku/haiku for you....

Feeling your kiss
against my cool cheek--
autumn leaf.

b'oki.


a waka/tanka for you too...

The warmth of your touch
against my chilled, rosy cheeks;
together we kiss--
in showers of falling leaves,
burning with autumn color.

b'oki.

.......working on my Exchange 23 print :)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/b_oki/
http://www.geocities.com/b_oki_art
http;//www.SimplyHaiku.com

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