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[Baren 35394] RE: New Baren Digest (Text) V42 #4289 (Mar 25, 2008) ("phare-camp # imp-s.com")
[Baren 35395] Re: Your friendly monthly Exchanges update! ("Ellen Shipley")
[Baren 35396] Re: Your friendly monthly Exchanges update! (peart # comcast.net)
[Baren 35397] chops (cucamongie # aol.com)
[Baren 35398] from Carol about chops (Barbara Mason)
[Baren 35399] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
[Baren 35400] theme exchange #37 (guadalupe victorica reyes)
[Baren 35401] chops ("Jean Womack")
[Baren 35402] chop marks adventure (ArtSpotiB # aol.com)
[Baren 35403] question (ArtSpotiB # aol.com)

Message 11
From: "phare-camp # imp-s.com"
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:21:35 -0400
Subject: [Baren 35394] RE: New Baren Digest (Text) V42 #4289 (Mar 25, 2008)
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"I don't know if i'm the problem or if i got a bad one or what but
some of the ball bearings get stuck and leave dark circles in my prints."

Not your problem Viza: You shouldn't have problems like that with a brand
new baren. I have a ball bearing baren that I bought from McClain's and it
has been a dream. Email Barbara Mason, I believe she's the one who
moderates the mall at Baren. I've used my ball bearing baren right on the
back of the print and had no problems with marking (though the instructions
recommend using a backing sheet). Keep in mind that you don't need to
press on this baren; the weight of your hand is sufficient. my
instructions said that if you put too much pressure on the baren then the
ball bearings may stick.

Hope you get this problem resolved because the ball bearing baren can be a
dream, I wish I'd made the investment years ago, I don't get tired near as
fast since I've been using it!

Cheers,
Patti P-C
www.imp-s.com

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Message 1
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:52:21 -0700
Subject: [Baren 35395] Re: Your friendly monthly Exchanges update!
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Oh, I like that! I vote for FOOLS. 8-]

Ellen Shipley

>Since the Exchange Sign Up opens April 1st, I will suggest the first theme: FOOLS (interpreted freely as "the fool", foolery, foolish, etc.)
>Everyone is welcomed to suggest and vote. I'll keep track.

>Happy printing!
>Maria<

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Message 2
From: peart # comcast.net
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:44:37 +0000
Subject: [Baren 35396] Re: Your friendly monthly Exchanges update!
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Yes, yes, yes...
harlequins, a Picasso thing!

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Message 3
From: cucamongie # aol.com
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:44:55 -0400
Subject: [Baren 35397] chops
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Another thing that works well for a chop is to carve it into a mars staedtler eraser, you can cut these to whatever size you need and lino cutting tools etc will work on them. You can also transfer the design by drawing it in pencil on tracing or other paper,
then rubbing the paper onto the eraser. the pencil will transfer.

happy carving
Sarah

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Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:52:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 35398] from Carol about chops
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Carol sent this to Sharri who also cannot post and she
sent it to me...
so if we ever get comcast figured out we will all be
posting again soon
Barbara

From: cjchapel@casco.net
Date: March 25, 2008 1:27:29 PM PDT
To: Sharri LaPierre
Subject: favor

See what you get for ever meeting me? LOL I just do
not know how to post to the Baren without first
getting the email and replying to it. There has to be
a way or there would be no digest. However my favor is
- would you please post this for me?

I had a chop made in San Francisco years ago, but
suspect nothing has changed. Here's the info:
The store is called the New Unique Company at 838
Grant Ave. Mezzanine floor - winding staircase with
dragon up stairs. The hours mean nothing.
I looked through a catalog of sir names and picked
one. They mailed the finished chop. I was then, and
still remain totally satisfied.

Thanks Sharri for doing this.
Carol

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Message 5
From: Blog Manager
Date: 26 Mar 2008 03:55:32 -0000
Subject: [Baren 35399] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Message 6
From: guadalupe victorica reyes
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:16:23 +0000
Subject: [Baren 35400] theme exchange #37
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Maria. For the Exchange #37, I would like to suggest the theme of Human Rights or Peace.
Thank you, Guadalupe
Mexico

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Message 7
From: "Jean Womack"
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:20:28 -0700
Subject: [Baren 35401] chops
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Does Mr. Cui ever teach Chinese-style woodblock printmaking?
Also, I have discovered that if I spray the solar plate with
a light coating of spray varnish,
the water-based ink still rolls on very well, but the plate does not dissolve.

Jean Womack

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Message 8
From: ArtSpotiB # aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:14:34 EDT
Subject: [Baren 35402] chop marks adventure
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Hello Friends.

I'd like to second the idea of using Mr. Cui at the San Francisco Asian
Museum. He is so considerate.

You choose the carved stone (mine has a temple dog on top), then he discusses
how your chop mark might be made. It turned into a real adventure for me.
Then you pay for the stone (some are so inexpensive!) and the carving and a sniff
for postage. Soon afterwards it was delivered to my studio in a beautiful,
protective box. I am so pleased with the entire process and result that I'm
going to describe it to you. I bet you can get them over the Net from the Museum
as well.

For example, my art name is "Benny Alba", a nickname and the second due to
beauty of the Spanish language. (My real name is impossible to pronounce.) After
a thoughtful discussion with Mr Cui., my friend Di Anne Love and I decided to
go with the idea that Benny is bene/good in Spanish. Alba, which I also
chose, because it means dawn and I love those colors and the light of dawn, means
"risen" as well. I had no idea when I picked it out over 20 years ago.

So I have something resembling "goodness ascending".

One can only hope to live up to that name.

It's an adventure! Enjoy the ride.

ArtSpot Out
Benny Alba at OMebase

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. -Sun
Tzu, general (6th century BCE)

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Message 9
From: ArtSpotiB # aol.com
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:25:37 EDT
Subject: [Baren 35403] question
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Uh, Did the CAIRN project ever become completed? I haven't rec'd my copy....
and am so looking forward to it.

Thanks.

ArtSpot Out
Benny Alba at OMebase

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. -Sun
Tzu, general (6th century BCE)

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