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Message 1
From: Jan Telfer
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:28:53 +0800
Subject: [Baren 35069] Patti's Chinese New year cards x 3
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Dear Patti,

Thank you for your three thoughtful New Year cards that arrived
today..... each one with very special meaning.
I hope that 2008 will be a new beginning for you and your family.

Thank you.
Jan

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Message 2
From: Jan Telfer
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:32:52 +0800
Subject: [Baren 35070] Sharen's New Year Cards
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Thank you Sharen for your two beautifully rendered New Year cards
too..... my Postie stopped a little longer at my box today... checking
out my exchange prints!!
You are a very clever little "sausage".

I think I have a new respect for all those rats!!

Love,
Jan

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Message 3
From: "Marilynn Smith"
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:44:29 -0800
Subject: [Baren 35071] Re: Baren Digest (old) V42 #4231
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Dave, I looked at your latest revisions of your river in winter print. I am
amazed at your skill level. What a wonderful print. You have more talent
than you realize.
Marilynn

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Message 4
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:07:41 -0800
Subject: [Baren 35072] Re: Cairn Project
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Well, Las Vegas is notoriously easy and cheap to fly into. You are certainly
welcomed any time! Especially if you're coming to work, heh heh...

I recently had the pleasure of meeting another Baren member when Kris Shanks
came to pick up her Patrick/Thomas Press. She got back on the road, press in
tow, quickly but it was nice to put another face to a voice.

A while back the illustrious Charles Morgan dropped by and received the
grand tour of this baffling city while he was here for a convention. We had
a nice chat.

In the last Baren Summit in Kansas City I met many of you for the second
time and the California crew's reunions are always something to look forward
to. Way back when "they said" you couldn't make friends online...

Cheers to all,
Maria


Maria Arango
http://1000woodcuts.com
http://artfestivalguide.info

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Message 5
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:18:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 35073] Re: Cairn Project
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HA!!! What a concept ... "illustrious Charles Morgan" ... sounds like an oxymoron (emphasis on the second syllable) ...

My "dropped by" consisted of Maria the Magnificent picking me up at my hotel and spending the whole day showing me her studio and touring me around OUTSIDE the city ... I am not partial to cities. She did insist on a cruise down the main drag, just to say I had seen it.

Not only is Maria a very gifted and energetic artist, she is also very knowledgeable on business, economics, ecology, dessert gardening, and politics, among other things. We had very interesting discussions on quite a wide range of topics. I even got to demonstrate that cheesies make good fire starters!!!

So, if you ever have a chance to visit Maria, the Las Vegas fireball, take a deep breath and go for it!!!

Hey, and those huge puzzle block prints are really great!

Cheers ...... Charles

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Message 6
From: "Oscar Bearinger"
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:10:25 -0500
Subject: [Baren 35074] The Charles Project
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HA! Now I get to say it to everyone.
Charles, your website is most inspiring to me.

Of course, you have your usual suspects of projects like the Jack Press and the Palm Press (which makes me think you too are a student of the obvious!)

What really inspires me about your work is the range of your activities and printmaking modes. I also carve stone and never before thought of printing from stones !!! (After I see it, I think: but of course!!) As ArtfulCarol says, why not just do it, after all no one is going to arrest me!

But the thing that killed me is your face printing!!!!!

So it's just wonderful to be pushed to try all these things, impish and impossible! Why not!

Thanks, Charles!

Oscar

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Message 7
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:37:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 35075] Re: Cairn Project
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What a bonehead!!! He can't even count syllables ... obviously the fool meant "empahsis on the last syllable" ... sigh ....

Cheers ..... Charles

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Message 8
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:59:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 35076] Re: The Charles Project
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Hey Oscar ... your cheque is in the mail ... just don't tell anyone I contracted you to make those too kind comments!!!

Almost everything I see, I want to print! I am always trying to figure out how to print things. I have this STRONG desire to run around all the antique stores with a brayer, ink, and some paper, printing all those wonderful designs on press-back chairs .... probably get me arrested!

As for face printing ... well, I had some things in a show down in California ... I could not go to the opening, but I did get a catalog. In the show was one face print done in about 1975 ... artist now dead. I had never seen one before, but I was completely blown away! Have never seen another one. So I just started trying it. Personally, I find the results stunning. You get a perspective you see in no other way, since you are taking that 3-dimensional face and opening it out into two dimensions. I hope to teach a workshop on the techinque for the Nature Printing Society in September.

After taking the photos of the face prints, I reversed the images in photoshop, and was again quite amazed. So lately I have been printing faces in white ink on black cloth ... a different look, but of course there are similarities. I want to do a series of full length body prints, but without heads ... display them all hanging up like clothes in a closet ... hard to get volunteers, though ....

So ... Oscar ... Why not abandon those frozen eastern wastes and make a mad trip to B.C.? We can run around like crazy fools, carving and printing like madmen ....

Now for a little woodcarving content ... When I started stone carving, I checked out the local grave monument maker. They use sandblasting these days. Has anyone tried a cheapo sandblasting machine for wood carving? Seems to me one could mask the areas you want to keep with some sort of rubbery stuff like silicon caulking ... remove the caulking after sandblasting ... ink and print. Or am I being crazy again???

Cheers ..... Charles

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Message 9
From: "Oscar Bearinger"
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:41:56 -0500
Subject: [Baren 35077] Re: Cairn Project
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Oh Charles! What are we gonna do with you? Here I thought you were involved with the university!!!
Really what you mean is emphasis on the last TWO syllables!!!!

Anyway, re the Charles Project, your story of the face printing is fabulous!! Right now, with snow here last evening, snow tomorrow evening, snow on Friday evening, I just might take you up on getting out there for some of your crazy printing!

Your full-length-body-prints are a truly magnificent idea !!! This must be done ! I will volunteer for sure, and I'm sure we can seduce others. I mean this very seriously, C! Reminds me of my "mentor printer" Leonard Baskin....he is shouting joy from his grave.

Keep up the good work, buddy.

Maria, you are so right - who says friendship can't spring out of virtual connections!

Happy sweet valentine's, everyone!
(I just finished my print for my valentine a few minutes ago)

Oscar

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Message 10
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:50:16 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Baren 35078] Re: Cairn Project
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Heck ... can't even count to two!!!!

Cheers ...... Charles

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