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[Baren 35880] Re: Baren Digest (old) V43 #4368 ("Marilynn Smith")
[Baren 35881] Re: What Is Art? (Barbara Mason)
[Baren 35882] visual perception but not printmaking (Barbara Mason)
[Baren 35883] Re: visual perception but not printmaking (Diane Cutter)
[Baren 35884] What is art (Eileen Corder)
[Baren 35885] Re: What Is Art? (aqua4tis # aol.com)
[Baren 35886] Re: visual perception but not printmaking (aqua4tis # aol.com)
[Baren 35887] touch-ups ("hanna_platt # excite.com")
[Baren 35888] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
[Baren 35889] Tweaking off register prints, etc. (Gayle Wohlken)

Message 1
From: "Marilynn Smith"
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:45:56 -0700
Subject: [Baren 35880] Re: Baren Digest (old) V43 #4368
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Harry, yes do doctor those prints. I had a fun time with my last woodblock
before we drove the Baja back to Washington state. I had purchased some
lovely hand made paper at my local art store and decided to print it water
based. After some soppy attempts I printed it dry with oil ink. I had done
4 attempts with the water based ink. I had a thought to just run the oil
based over top and the water base color glowed from underneath. I thought
they were pretty nifty, one friend liked them better and one friend liked
the all oil based prints better. Who knows?? They became an edition vari and
happily I lost fewer print, saving them on that lovely paper. My final print
was that icky lino that I had bought, but it worked out fine with a nice zig
zag pattern for a border. It is fun to do new things and try out variations
and just plain experiment. I have found when I step outside the pure limits
that I can get some really fun stuff.

My rats will be getting addressed some time this week and in the mail soon.
I have been having a grand time opening all those envelopes and enjoying rat
prints from all over the world, what fun! They are all wonderful and unique!
And a late to open package of prints from the 3 color exchange, what a
treat!!!

Carole I thank you for you work on this next exchange, am sad that it will
not be the full 31. It will be fun to get any way.
Marilynn

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Message 2
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 07:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 35881] Re: What Is Art?
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The book is called de Kooning an American Master by
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
It is being passed around here and all who read it are
signing the front cover, I an number 5.

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Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 07:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 35882] visual perception but not printmaking
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As some of you might know I have been reading a lot
about how your eye tells your brain what is good
imagery or what it sees or thinks it sees.
This next bit is a good example, apparently we read
words as images also and can see the word even if part
is wrong. I find this sort of thing very interesting
and the more I read about it the more interesting it
becomes.

I am thinking of doing a body of work that is left to
right and hanging it beside a piece that is right to
left but exactly the same image reversed...maybe even
matting them as a diptych.

So let me know if you can read this...the mind is
faster than the eye
My best
Barbara

Olny srmat poelpe can raed tihs.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg.

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to
a rscheearch

at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht
oredr the ltteers in a

wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist
and lsat ltteer be in

the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you
can sitll raed it

wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos
not raed

ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Amzanig huh?

yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

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Message 4
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 07:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 35883] Re: visual perception but not printmaking
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Azamnig, Braarba!!! I can raed, I can raed! Not only taht, I urendsnatd it!

Diane

www.dianecutter.com
www.theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
www.DCutter.etsy.com

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Message 5
From: Eileen Corder
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 09:07:27 -0700
Subject: [Baren 35884] What is art
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Hi Bareners,

Thanks, Ellen, for the link to the claymation video. I would comment on it,
but try as I might, I can't get You Tube with my dial-up connection. Sigh.

As for "what is art" -- if any of you haven't already experienced Outsider
Art then let me turn you on. For starters is Adolf Wolfli
(http://www.adolfwoelfli.ch/). I came upon his work in an exhibition at UC
Berkeley back in the 80's. After that my love of Outsider Art just grew.
There is a studio near where I lived in San Francisco called Creativity
Explored (http://www.creativityexplored.org/) where wonderful art happens
every day. Also, Watts Towers in LA (http://www.adolfwoelfli.ch/) is a
wonderful epicenter of art. There are also many publications featuring
outsider artists and art.

Have fun!

Peace,
Eileen

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Message 6
From: aqua4tis # aol.com
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:32:59 -0400
Subject: [Baren 35885] Re: What Is Art?
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how far afield are you passing the (deKooning) book? id love to be number 6
georga

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Message 7
From: aqua4tis # aol.com
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 13:35:25 -0400
Subject: [Baren 35886] Re: visual perception but not printmaking
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(re visual perception test)
so can i
georga

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Message 8
From: "hanna_platt # excite.com"
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 14:37:04 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 35887] touch-ups
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Harry,
I think touch-ups are okay especially if you cant tell the difference from the other prints. i usually do touch-ups put them back in the stack go through the stack again and if i cant see any difference then they stay. I also think that if you use a pen to make an eye on a bird or use watercolor in a print that is okay as long as you list it as woodcut with watercolor. I don't think rules should force you to through away art that you like and are willing to sign your name to.
viza

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Message 9
From: Blog Manager
Date: 26 May 2008 03:55:45 -0000
Subject: [Baren 35888] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Message 10
From: Gayle Wohlken
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 08:56:04 -0400
Subject: [Baren 35889] Tweaking off register prints, etc.
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> Do any of you 'doctor' up prints that are slightly off register or
> have not printed properly?

Harry, I'm glad you brought that up. Some off register prints look
kind of interesting, and I leave them. But there are other tweakings
I do and I always wondered if others do what I have done on occasion
and that is to take a thin wooden skewer and dot in some color in a
place that is empty because when carving, the knife had slipped and
cut out more than intended. That's what I've been known to do. I've
tried fixing some of those by adding bits of wood back in, but I'm not
very skilled at that and usually in the print you can tell.

~Gayle

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