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[Baren 31768] Re: lecture on paper ("Ellen Shipley")
[Baren 31769] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Anna Huskey)
[Baren 31770] Re: Sore Knuckles using Murasaki Baren (Sharri LaPierre)
[Baren 31771] Re: Sore Knuckles using Murasaki Baren ("DePry Clan")
[Baren 31772] Did I miss it? (Wanda Robertson)
[Baren 31773] Big woodcuts (Charles Morgan)
[Baren 31774] Re: Sore Knuckles using Murasaki Baren ("Maria Arango")
[Baren 31775] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
[Baren 31776] Prints get the boot (Barbara Mason)

Message 1
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:44:25 -0700
Subject: [Baren 31768] Re: lecture on paper
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Ah man. What's with this weekend? First my favorite weaving anthropologist will be speaking on Chinese Mummies, and now Japanese papermaking! And we're heading up the coast this weekend for our 34th! It's a conspiracy, I know it.

We'll even be in SLO a couple weeks too early for a Printmaking show. The gods are unkind (or maybe they want to spare my dh from being dragged off to all those things!).

At least there should be some great sketching opportunities on the train up the coast. 8-]

Ellen

print blog:
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com/
sketch blog:
http://thepickledpen.blogspot.com/
dog blog:
http://dogblog-catchat.blogspot.com/

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Message 2
From: Anna Huskey
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:08:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 31769] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Thank You Annie B. for sharing the website of the 3,000 plus mini prints in Tokyo. You are correct I can be entertained for a LONG time.
Anna Huskey

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Message 3
From: Sharri LaPierre
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:46:50 -0700
Subject: [Baren 31770] Re: Sore Knuckles using Murasaki Baren
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Ellen,
You mentioned the "new long handled tool"... There are instructions in
the McClain's catalog for cutting that handle down to fit your hand.
It will make all the difference in the world to cut it to that custom
length and should relieve any discomfort you may have. I can't help
folks with sore knuckles from the baren, though. After too long a day
with mine I have been known to use the flat of my palm and not even try
to use knuckles. That's what arthritis does to you. Shorter days are
the answer, I guess, since I see no new knuckles in my future. My use
for the charge cards is to use them in collage, in addition to
everything else that's been mentioned, except as a key for breaking and
entering. I'm not going to lock-up if Bea doesn't go.

Cheers ~
Sharri

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Message 4
From: "DePry Clan"
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 09:55:27 -0700
Subject: [Baren 31771] Re: Sore Knuckles using Murasaki Baren
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I was wondering with the talk about the variety of barens out there which
one is a good enduro one. I have a press but am looking to other means of
printing when I am camping and trekking.
Later days,
Double D

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Message 5
From: Wanda Robertson
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:36:30 -0700
Subject: [Baren 31772] Did I miss it?
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Hi Folks,

I posted another batch of photos (from Louise Cass) up on the Baren
Blog the other day. I don't remember seeing it in the daily blog
reminder, but sometimes I scan through my e-mails pretty darned fast.
Go and look and let Louise know how beautiful her photos are! Louise's
email is:
Note: Address will not show in archives. Baren members received address in "old version" of digest, #3617

Wanda

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Message 6
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:29:54 -0700
Subject: [Baren 31773] Big woodcuts
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Mike, and others,

Have you ever heard of Franz Gertsch??? Given your interest in
realistic LARGE woodcuts, you would enjoy his work. Check it out at:

http://www.museum-franzgertsch.ch/museum/index.php?lang=en

Ad Stijnman passed his name along.

Cheers ..... Charles

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Message 7
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 20:12:39 -0700
Subject: [Baren 31774] Re: Sore Knuckles using Murasaki Baren
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Daryl, you are always welcome to come by the studio and test drive my
assorted weapons.

I have found the Murasaki baren to be very powerful for oil based inks but
never take mine traveling because of the cost of replacement. For years I
heard the traditional folk talk about the traditional barens being so much
superior than, say, the wooden spoon and you really have to try these "real"
barens to believe how well they print, even oily stuff on tough Western
papers.

You would probably not want to take a ball-bearing baren to the woods,
especially for smaller blocks and "field work" it might be just too rigid
and really, too much tool (like killing mosquitos with an elephant gun).
Any of the wooden thingies will work anywhere and if they fall down a ravine
you wouldn't cry as much as if you lost the Murasaki.

Of course you can always pick up a cheaper model that still has the
traditional coil construction from the Baren Mall like the Sosaku baren.
Then you can get the flexible feel of the coil baren for a lesser
investment. I don't have one of those but seems like a good field-tool
investment.
http://www.barenforum.org/mall/products/barens.php

That all just being MHO
Maria

Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com

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Message 8
From: Blog Manager
Date: 10 Sep 2006 03:55:09 -0000
Subject: [Baren 31775] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Message 9
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 31776] Prints get the boot
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I was wandering around on the internet looking at blogs and found this one...seems dealers with prints were uninvited to show this year...you may have seen this as it is a month old. I think it is interesting that a media that has always been at the forefront of disseminating information has less punch that other art, sort of a second class citizen. At any rate, go read this..not about woodblock primarily but about prints in general and the sale of artwork in particular.
http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com/2006/07/oddly-public-dissing-of-print-dealers.html
Why would a gallery or dealer give wall space to a $400 print when they could hang a $4000 painting????? Well, how many paintings can one have? Only so many walls, but lots of drawer space for prints. You can just stack them up.
We live in interesting times.....haha
Best to all,
Barbara

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