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Message 1
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:03:18 EDT
Subject: [Baren 28814] Re: Woodblocks prints as propaganda ...
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Stalinist police state I bet you will not see the mass starvation, death
camps etc. No thanks.

john c.

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Message 2
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:35:53 -0700
Subject: [Baren 28815] RE: Baren Digest (old) V32 #3204
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Annie another vote here for the ball bearing baren. I got mine through the Baren Mall. Nothing equals the ease in use for getting stronger color. It is really a powerful little guy. Don't remember theone I bought but if you want to know I will loiok it up.
Marilynn

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Message 3
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:50:29 EDT
Subject: [Baren 28816] Re: More more on the Ball Bearing baren
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I have been using the ball bearing baren and find it very useful
I succumbed to buying this expensive baren but it is worth it.
Was it said that you rub with moderate pressure, not strong? And cirlces,
not up and down! Use a thin sheet between paper and the baren.
Also keep in it good condition by putting it on a material with oil on it.
A while ago there were e-mails on the exact oil and how to clean it if it
gets cloggged. Not rocket science , but someone out there remembers.
McClains sends a sheet with the care info.
_mail@immcclains.com_ (mailto:mail@immcclains.com)
Hope this helps.
Carol Lyons
I've just used my one message per day allowance so tomorrow I will e-mail a
suggestion for a must must read about woodblocks--The Invisible Collection
by Stefan Zweig.

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Message 4
From: "Robert Canaga"
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:51:06 -0700
Subject: [Baren 28817] Re: More more on the Ball Bearing baren
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I also love my BBBaren. I put it on a piece of cotton cloth folded over a few times and sprayed with wd40.
I have used Lock-Tight on the small screws to keep them in place.
I have two, one for my students:)

Oh, Barbara has work up in our gallery now. They look great!
October's show is from Print Arts Northwest: Landscape. It runs through the end of October

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Message 5
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:55:06 -0500
Subject: [Baren 28818] Re: Adachi demo & brush warm up
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Barbara writes:

"...when I saw the printing I was surprised. She used a very light feather
touch to load the block with the brush and almost no pigment and paste.
Hard to believer she could get the block damp enough. She did have a block
of wood with a cloth over it that she rubbed over the block to dampen it
for bokashi printing. The amount of pigment and paste was so small.....and
she used a lot of pressure to print. So she is making up in force for less
moisture."

I think what happens is that the maru-bake brushes really get loaded with
pigment & paste after a few prints and stay loaded during the print
run....the small amount she adds to the block after each printing serves
to keep things in balance...but the trick is to get that brush really
'warmed' up and loaded with pigment & paste...during cleanup while rinsing
away I am always surprised at how much stuff those brushes hold...it takes
forever to get all the pigment off....is a good thing I usually don't try
to rinse it all away since I have a brush for each color group....greens,
blues, reds, yellows/browns and of course black.

I was watching the dvd of Dave printing at the KC Summit and I noticed the
same thing Barbara did, very little pigment/paste followed by easy flowing
brush action and then either heavy pressure for large color areas or just
a bit for smaller sections of color or for fine line work like a
keyblock...

thanks.........Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)

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Message 6
From: Blog Manager
Date: 27 Sep 2005 03:55:02 -0000
Subject: [Baren 28819] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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This is an automatic update message being sent to [Baren] by the forum blog software.

The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (8 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: BarenForum Group Weblog

Author: Dean Clark
Item: IMPACT IV
http://barenforum.org/blog/archives/2005/09/impact_iv.html

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Site Name: Woodblock Dreams

Author: Annie B
Item: Goma Zuri
http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com/2005/09/goma-zuri.html

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[Baren] members: if you have a printmaking blog (or a website with a published ATOM feed), and wish it to be included in this daily checklist, please write to the Baren Blog Manager at:
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