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Message 1
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:35:33 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30617] Re: Exchange #25 Gallery available on-line
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Carol wrote:
>By the way, when I attempted to comment on their prints to several
>people in the Dreams and Visions Exchange, I kept getting an ERROR, one of the names is invalid...">, and was unable to send any
>commentary at all. Has anyone else had this problem?

Dear Carol,

EVERYbody who tried (until an hour or so ago) would have the same
problem! MY BAD! A few years ago I streamlined the way I handled
the exchange sign-ups and gallery page production -- I began keeping
the sign-up and print details information in an MS Excel spreadsheet,
and I wrote a simple macro-driven MS Word merge document to read the
spreadsheet and output the HTML code for each artist's gallery
page... But when I sorted the exchange 25 artists in order of
lastname, I somehow unlinked their email addresses, so the gallery
response forms all tried to send email comments to "#VALUE" which
really didn't work so well (understatement -- :-))...

Sharen Linder was the first to notify me and I fixed the problem and
rewrote all the gallery pages earlier this morning, so everything
ought to be working as intended now...

By the way, John Center delivered me a set of prints from #26 for the
Spencer Museum archive which I will try to get scanned today and ut
those gallery pages on-line very soon!!

Thanks!

Mike


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

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Message 2
From: "Marilynn Smith"
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:26:44 -0600
Subject: [Baren 30618] Re: Baren Digest (old) V35 #3438
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Angee, if you are open to travel come to the Baren summit this summer. I am
certain you will get a lot of very good information on hanga and you will
have the treat of meeting a lot of wonderful people. Also you will get to
meet many of our artists who use oil pigments. I am sure there will be
demos and if you bring along the right supplies (a good person to ask is our
Baren mall lady Barbara Mason) there are many who would help you. I would
suggest also contacting memebers like Mike Lyone about his workshop and I am
not certain who else is busy giving classes, but the summit would be an
excellent beginnning and than perhaps a workshop after you get your feet a
bit wet. I learnedmore at the summit than I did at a workshop, so it is a
good palce to get into this.

Geez this paper thing is complicated. I am ordering paper online to be
delivered up north and be ready for my nude print when it is finished. When
I did my nude calendar print I wanted a very white paper, acid free, that
was smoother than rives. I chose stonehenge and was very pleased with the
results, I printed black and white. I settled on another linoleum block
because that is what I have down here that is large enough for the paper
size for the nude exchange. So than I decided to do the same general
direction, very white paper with black ink. I went to several stores online
and found stonehenge at a very good price and it was 250 grams in weight.
It really does not matter a great deal if it is 90lb or 140lb or something
in between since it will be one impression, not a multi block. But there
were two places selling this paper one stated it was 90lb the other 250
grams and the price was slightly lower for one store than the other. So
than my concern was exactly what would I get???
Thanks for all the help and I would love to touch the paper first but snce
I am nowhere near these suppliers and can not get it here, I will just
order. It should work out okay since this is a nice paper even though one
that has a good lower price tag.

Carving tools I use. My medium u guage is a favorite.. I use that is 5
chisels depending, mediun u guage, small u guage, large clearing chisel and
small flat clearing chisel and the slanted hanga toe knife. Try to learn
what each of your knives do and use the right one for the job you are doing
and you will have better results. For example the medium u guage is
marvelous for a flowing line and the hanga toe used properly will cut around
everything with great results. It is worth learning how to use that slanted
knfe!
Marilynn

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Message 3
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:00:22 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30619] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V35 #3437 (Apr 9, 2006)
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Angee wrote:
>I'm wondering if any one has any suggestions for a good place to
>learn Moku- Hanga printing, or a good book to get me started. To
>date, I have only printed oilbased inks, but would love to take
>either a class on more traditional printing, or at least read up on
>it. I live in Chicago, but would be open minded to travel if anyone
>knows of any workshops that I could possible attend. Thanks!

Dear Angie,

McClains Printmaking Supplies has a good listing of instructors and
workshops here: http://www.imcclains.com/Calendar.html#instructors

I'm teaching two five-day moku-hanga workshops in August -- maybe a
third later in the fall in Connecticut -- here are links for more information:

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, August 14-18, Snowmass, CO
http://www.andersonranch.org/workshops/temp.cfm?include=Printmaking&EventID=1272&DisplayContent=false
(I believe that this workshop may already be 'full', but they
maintain a waiting list and will let you know if/when you get in --
beautiful, BEAUTIFUL place high in the Colorado Rockies

Peters Valley Craft Center, August 25-29, Layton, NJ
http://petersvalley.org/2006%20Workshops/sptopics_2006_workshop_sche.htm
another beautiful location -- this one deeply forested in the
Delaware Water Gap about an hour outside NYC

Center for Contemporary Printmaking, (October?), Norwalk, CT
http://contemprints.org/Workshops_Woodcut.cfm (check with CCP for
updated workshop listings by emailing ,
Anthony Kirk, director

There are several other Baren members who regularly teach moku-hanga
-- contact them directly for their schedules:

April Vollmer she has five workshops
scheduled this year -- more information at
http://www.aprilvollmer.com/classes.html

Matt Brown http://www.ooloopress.com/forms/maillist.html June 2, 3 &
4 2006 Introduction to Japanese Color Woodblock Printmaking - 3-day
workshop at his shop in Lyme, NH. (three spaces left)

Apologies to any Baren members I've omitted!

-- Mike


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

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Message 4
From: Sharri LaPierre
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:53:54 -0700
Subject: [Baren 30620] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V35 #3437 (Apr 9
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Angie,
Have we got the deal for you! Come to the Baren Summit August 14 - 19
(we've extended it to Saturday in order to include a trip up the
beautiful Columbia River Gorge) and the following week there will be a
workshop at a local college. Or, several of our members teach all over
the country - but, the summit would be a very good place to get
started. Watch the List and Mike will have a page up with all the
Summit information on it soon.

Sharri

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Message 5
From: Tyrus Clutter
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:59:21 -0400
Subject: [Baren 30621] Re: Exchange #29 update -- WOW
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I actually find it rather humorous that I tend to only do open exchanges so
that I can continue on with an ongoing project, which often involves a nude
figure(s), and then this is the one themed exchange that I'm not
participating in.

I did, however, my exchange 28 prints yesterday. One hurdle down, 3000 more
to jump this week.

Tyrus

Tyrus Clutter
Director, Christians in the Visual Arts
255 Grapevine Road
Wenham, MA 01984

978-867-4128: Office
978-867-4125: Fax
www.civa.org

Christians in the Visual Arts is the premier visual arts organization
connecting the artist, the Church, and the culture.

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Message 6
From: L Cass
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:07:39 -0400
Subject: [Baren 30622] Re: Baren Digest (old) V35 #3438
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Marilynn - can't help adding that it looks like I was correct in the first
place (90lb = (250gm) -don't know how they do it!
am I correct in thinking Stonehenge is machine made in
the U.S.A.? you may be getting a good 'student
grade' paper Have you tried the French mouldmade papers
such as RivesBFK or Arches Cover - they're not
too expensive here -not like some of the archival Japanese
papers but of course these are totally different
type of papers. Has anyone ever contacted
they appear to be based in Asheville, NC
-when searching for high quality parchment paper not found
in stores here, they sent me samples to choose from.

Now to wrestle with sharpening tools to do a good enough
job in finishing my long-delayed Dog! I look forward to
consultations at the Summit in August however Lee Valley
is opening a store in downtown Toronto -hurrah!
(Grand Opening April 24-29) so am hoping they'll give tool
sharpening workshops as they did in the out of town
location which I couldn't get to without a car. Finally,
the renovations to my web site will soon be ready and I can
add my signature once again
bw to all
Louise C.

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Message 7
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:52:51 -0700
Subject: [Baren 30623] RE: Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a fine choice of paper IMHO
Inexpensive does not necessarily mean student grade or inferior. Stonehenge
produces a quality paper for far less (often less than half) than Rives or
Arches. It is of course acid-free but also strong and absorbent and I
especially like that it comes in various colors such as the coveted
"newsprint" color and a variety of creams to tan. It is also thick enough to
emboss well.

Happy printing!
Maria


Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com

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Message 8
From: David Cromwell
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:37:15 -0400
Subject: [Baren 30624] Re: Favorite Tools
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Dale,

The three tools I use the most are:

7.5 mm Powergrip hangito (tends not to break as easily as the
smaller knives)
6 mm Michi aisuki bullnose chisel (I love this tool)
6 mm Powergrip komasuki u gouge (essential for clearing back from
lines)

The 19 mm bullnose clearing chisel I got from Japanwoodworker comes in a
close fourth. It is a high quality tool, and was a bargain at $50.00.

Angee,

Rebecca Salter's book, Japanese Woodblock Printing, is excellent. Very
detailed and thorough, with many good pictures and diagrams. I've seen
as new copies on ebay for about $12.00

David
--
dcromwell2#nc.rr.com

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Message 9
From: cucamongie # aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:43:03 -0400
Subject: [Baren 30625] tools
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Hi all -
when I started hanga, I first got the relatively cheap set of tools that are the power grip set through woodcraft
http://woodcraft.com/family.aspx?familyid=1349

These were good for a start, and I still use them, but before I finished carving my first block I soon found that I needed at least one large bull-nosed chisel (soai nomi) for clearing wood, which I got from McClain's (I'm sure something comparable thru Baren Mall but I'm not familiar w/it) (fortunately my instructor was kind enough to lend me his soai nomi til I could get my hands on my own)

http://www.imcclains.com/catalog/woodblocktools/nomi.html#soai

pricey but worth every penny, also a maru nomi in a larger size is helpful too.

of course bit by bit I acquired lots of tools, and I have to say I use each and every one, depending on the project. The bulk of these tools I got from Mcclain's. The two-part tools (chisels etc) from Mcclain's are very good and come in many sizes and types.

http://www.imcclains.com/catalog/woodblocktools/index.html#twopart

Personally, I would not bother with the cheap tools with long handles which are available from various places.

happy printmaking!
Sarah

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Message 10
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:09:51 EDT
Subject: [Baren 30626] Re: Favorite Tools
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I like the steel in the Japanese tools but not the handles. Quality
western wood cut tools have handles I like much better. I find I only use the
1.5 & 1 mm japanese tools. I have a large collection of wood cut & wood
carving tools mostly I find that quality tools work well who ever made them.
English carving tools also work quiet well.

There is a tradition that seems to be important. When I am carving
cherry I do use more Japanese tools but when I carve maple I tend to use more
western tools lee tools has a set that can be used as hand tools alone and with
a mallet. Some wood carving tools that are designed to use in wood carving
for sculpture need to have there handles shortened if you really want to use
them for wood cuts. The dynamics is somewhat different.

john c.

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Message 11
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:47:40 -0500
Subject: [Baren 30627] Exchange #26 Gallery
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Been a VERY LONG day working on exchange 26 gallery! I've scanned
all your prints from exchange #26 and the gallery pages are available
at http://barenforum.org/exchange/exchanges.html -- enjoy!

Mike


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

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Message 12
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:23:29 -0700
Subject: [Baren 30628] Re: Exchange #26 Gallery
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Hello Mike,

Sorry ... I just got your email about the colophon ... thought I had
uploaded it. I sent a copy with the prints. Anyway, I will upload it as
soon as possible.

Thanks for all your hard work putting the scans up on the web. But on the
web site, you have incorrectly listed me as from Indianapolis, Ind. It
should read:

Charles Morgan, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Also, you have the title of my print listed as "Spinning Spheres", which is
incorrect. The correct title is "Dark Lily".

Cheers ...... Charles

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Message 13
From: "Carol Myers"
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:34:02 -0400
Subject: [Baren 30629] Re: Exchange #26 Gallery
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Hi Mike,
It looks like you used my information, title 'Spinning Spheres" with Charles
Morgan's work. Do you want me to upload the info again, or do you have it,
just in the wrong place? When I looked at Charles' print, it has all of my
information.

Good thing, too, cause I've slept since then, and would have had to look it
all up.

Also my thanks for all that you do to put up the exchanges for all of us to
enjoy.

Thanks,
Carol L. Myers Indianapolis, IN

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Message 14
From: edmund # michaelfraley.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:41:32 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 30630] Re: Favorite Tools
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I use a set of Pfeil block cutters that I picked up at the Woodcraft
store, which are a dream to use in linoleum as well as wood. After using
them on a linocut, there's no way I'd go back to using the Speedball
linocut tools unless I just didn't have a choice. Pfeil has various sets
like this, and I use their "C" set, which includes three U-gouges and two
V-gouges. The V-gouges are the ones I use the most for detail work.

Outside of the Pfeil set, I also use a very cheap hangi-to out of a $10
set of Richeson tools that I found in the local art store. I thought about
getting a Power Grip hangi-to at the Woodcraft store, but the handle
seemed a bit long to me. The Richeson handle is sized just right for my
hand - although the blade is obviously made for a righthanded person, so
there are some things I just can't do with it.

One of the side benefits of having carving tools is that I get to sharpen
and take care of them. Sharpening the tools is a very peaceful, zen-like
experience for me.

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Message 15
From: edmund # michaelfraley.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:44:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 30631] Re: Favorite Tools
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Pardon the extra post, but I obviously can't count. The Pfeil set includes
SIX tools, with four U-gouges and two V-gouges.


> I use a set of Pfeil block cutters that I picked up at the Woodcraft
> store, which are a dream to use in linoleum as well as wood. After using
> them on a linocut, there's no way I'd go back to using the Speedball
> linocut tools unless I just didn't have a choice. Pfeil has various sets
> like this, and I use their "C" set, which includes three U-gouges and two
> V-gouges. The V-gouges are the ones I use the most for detail work.
>
> Outside of the Pfeil set, I also use a very cheap hangi-to out of a $10
> set of Richeson tools that I found in the local art store. I thought about
> getting a Power Grip hangi-to at the Woodcraft store, but the handle
> seemed a bit long to me. The Richeson handle is sized just right for my
> hand - although the blade is obviously made for a righthanded person, so
> there are some things I just can't do with it.
>
> One of the side benefits of having carving tools is that I get to sharpen
> and take care of them. Sharpening the tools is a very peaceful, zen-like
> experience for me.
>

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Message 16
From: Blog Manager
Date: 11 Apr 2006 03:55:05 -0000
Subject: [Baren 30632] 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. (17 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: m.Lee Prints

Author: m.Lee
Item: 1st and 2nd layers
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com/2006/04/1st-and-2nd-layers.html

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Site Name: pressing-issues

Author: Ellen Shipley
Item: Blue Hippo
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com/2006/04/blue-hippo.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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Message 17
From: "Doug"
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:20:39 -0600
Subject: [Baren 30633] Exchange 26 gallery
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Thanks, Mike, for all of the work you did in getting the gallery online.
It takes a good amount of time to get all of the prints scanned, and I
for one, am glad I didn't have to do it.

Doug
www.haugdesigns.com
719/473.4284

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Message 18
From: juan Guerrero
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:33:34 -0600
Subject: [Baren 30634] comment for Murilo and about tools
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>MURILO:


felicidades por tu blog¡¡¡

It seems that the images are somewhat big so it takes some time to
download. I like your portraits, are so psychological.
Congrats again¡¡

About tools for carving, I bought a set of 5 and a couple of single tools
(the "V" and the "U" shapes) in my journey to Japan. The set was not
expensive (about $12 USD I guess) and the single ones were about 6 USD.
The "V" one is a plastic rubber one, very comfortable to handle and,
believe me, is the only one I have sharped successfully.


Juan Guerrero

Alternative e-mail:
2ojos#ozu.es
www.guerreroart.tk

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