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Message 1
From: annie bissett
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:21:16 -0500
Subject: [Baren 32317] Re: hanga troubles and peddlin' this stuff
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Maria is so right! Our precious prints are just ink on paper.

Then again, money is just ink on paper. Hmmm, that gives me an idea....

Annie

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Message 2
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 06:19:58 -0800
Subject: [Baren 32318] Re: hanga troubles and peddlin' this stuff
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Excellent advice, Maria ... and based on a lot of worthwhile experience.

I suspect we all tend to over-value our work a bit ... I know I do.
Generally speaking, I really like my stuff ... else I would not put
it out there. But that does not mean anyone else likes it as much as
I do. Ink on paper ... ink on paper. I do it because I like it ...
not because I want to sell it. I sometimes ask myself, "Would I pay
that much for it if someone else had done it?"

Best of luck on the rest of the show.

By the way ... Why were you selling salsa??? {;-}}}}}

Cheers ...... Charles

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Message 3
From: Bobbi Chukran
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 08:41:13 -0600
Subject: [Baren 32319] Re: hanga troubles and peddlin' this stuff
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Maria! This is brilliant. I'm wondering if I have your permission
to post this to two other art/crafts groups? One is a group where
they're talking about the framing dilemma. I'll be sure to include
your URL. Hope your show goes well. It's 32-degrees here in TX
today, and the last thing I'd want to do is get out and set up a
booth...You're made of much stronger stuff than I!

bobbi c.


>Oh dear, here I go...unfortunately for y'all I am currently in Tempe
>AZ, on the evening of the first day of a 3-day festival and I just
>had a glass of wine--okay okay!!!! two glasses of wine, but they are
>small hotel plastic cups. Anyhow, this all means that I have TIME to
>burn and a free wireless high-speed internet connection AND I am in
>the midst of going through the plight of the "selling prints to the
>public who spends more on framing".

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Message 4
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 19:25:47 -0800
Subject: [Baren 32320] Re: hanga troubles and peddlin' this stuff
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Bobbi, please post anywhere you like. I guess I would only add that
sometimes when you are an artist you have to continue to work with blinders
on, like the clydesdales plowing the field...well, I guess they use tractors
now, huh...but plowing is the objective and if you look up at the field too
much sometimes you get quite depressed. Keep your head down and keep
working.
My main point was that you have to believe in what you do and come to terms
with who you are and what your art means to others. Don't get me wrong, some
people follow me to shows out of town just so they can buy my art but that
is certainly not the typical experience. Reality is harsh and catches many
an artist off guard. My mom loves everything I do, when I feel down, I have
her over for lunch.

Good luck to everyone, I'm too tired to write (thank goodness, ey?).
Maria

PS The salsa is my side business...shhhhhhh, don't tell anyone! I'll have to
pay taxes on it. It's really just squashed tomatos, after all.


Maria Arango
www.1000woodcuts.com

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Message 5
From: Blog Manager
Date: 3 Dec 2006 04:55:11 -0000
Subject: [Baren 32321] 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. (25 sites checked, five minutes before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: Gayle's Woodblock Blog

Item: Tiny and Crude
http://web.mac.com/g_wohlken/iWeb/Site/Blog/BE56D164-EC99-4C73-899A-100785D0CF31.html

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Message 6
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 02:35:53 -0600
Subject: [Baren 32322] Re: hanga troubles and peddlin' this stuff
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As one that has been following Maria's rising star since the early days I
can vouch for her determination to keep cutting blocks, her passion for
hard work and her unnerving ability to laugh off at customers silly
questions.....One of her early large prints (Out of the Wood I) hangs in
my family room...it's an image in classic Maria style of a sprawling human
figure lying on the ground as if about to expire ....everytime I look at
that image I think how Maria must feel when she gets to bed after a long
day at the Art fair...ha,ha,ha...(by the way Maria...I think the image on
the website is reversed ? or is this a recut version than the one I have
dated 1998 ?)

http://www.printmakingstudio.com/fullsize/bwoodman.html

By the way I been looking at your Bodyscapes prints online and I love the
interplay between the positive and negative spaces...the playful nature of
the cut lines, the black spaces merging against the white
areas...classical Maria !

Someone mentioned having trouble with registration....there are of course
many ways...I have learned to love the japanese kento (you can find the
method on the baren website and in many other places in the
internet)...it's able to keep registration to hair thin lines and it's
easy to get it right. I would not recommend it for very large works
because of the difficulty in handling wet paper....but anything 20X24 or
less is a sure bet.

Speaking of large prints...I hear the LPE3 exchange prints are on their
way to the participants....an early Xmas present......,yeah!!!!

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