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[Baren 36326] tearing paper ("hanna_platt # excite.com")
[Baren 36327] Re: next silly question -- paper (debra percival)
[Baren 36328] Re: tearing paper ("Ellen Shipley")
[Baren 36329] Re: tearing paper (David Harrison)
[Baren 36330] Am I too prejudiced? (Bill Joel)
[Baren 36331] Re: Am I too prejudiced? (David Harrison)
[Baren 36332] Re: next silly question -- paper (Barbara Mason)
[Baren 36333] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4451 (Jul 31, 2008) (Lynn Starun)
[Baren 36334] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4454 (Aug 3, 2008) ("Jean Womack")
[Baren 36335] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
[Baren 36336] Jean sez that Graham sez (Scholes Graham)
[Baren 36337] Re: next silly question -- paper (David Harrison)

Message 1
From: "hanna_platt # excite.com"
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:05:05 -0400
Subject: [Baren 36326] tearing paper
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i almost always tear to the final size. i dont wet or use a straight edge. i just fold the paper then use a bone folder on that fold, open it up and tear.
very fast and easy. good luck.
viza

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Message 2
From: debra percival
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 09:55:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 36327] Re: next silly question -- paper
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Hello Everyone,
I am an artist/printmaker from Prince Edward Island. The smallest province in Canada. It does not take long to get to the beach.

As for ripping paper, years ago I could not find my ruler so I picked up my husbands letter opener. It works great and he is never going to get it back. It sits on my paper ripping area in my studio and is used for nothing else. That way it is always clean, whereas my rulers are used for lots of stuff. I use many different papers from time to time and can not remember any problems.
Terry loves me, and has long forgotten it was his.

Debra James Percival
Artist/Instructor/Non-Toxic Printmaker
www.debrajamespercival.com

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Message 3
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 10:17:12 -0700
Subject: [Baren 36328] Re: tearing paper
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I use a straight edge which works great. But the edges can get kinda bendy
if you tear too many pieces in a pile.

Ellen

-(>-----~
Ellen Shipley
Trompt As Writ
~-----

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Message 4
From: David Harrison
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:38:26 +0100
Subject: [Baren 36329] Re: tearing paper
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All done in the end! I just kept tearing a piece at a time against a wooden
straightedge (my aluminium metre rule kept leaving dirty marks) and stopped
for coffee when my back complained at bending over the table...

Tonight they'll be damped, and tomorrow to print. At last!

Thanks all for the advice.

David

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Message 5
From: Bill Joel
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:52:05 -0400
Subject: [Baren 36330] Am I too prejudiced?
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My wife and I attended an opening reception at a local gallery. The artist,

Kate McGloughlin,

an excellent printmaker, had created an exhibit showing her
sketchbooks and subsequent prints. Stunning!

Anyway, there were prints of all kinds including linocuts and
woodcuts. Even though the linocuts were fantastic, I was more drawn
to the somewhat less perfect nature of her woodcuts. All of her
prints showed the same level of expertise, it's just that I find
woodcuts to be more appealing than linocuts. Something about the
perfect edges in linocuts leaves me flat, while the roughness of the
edges, and the grain of the wood, just resonates more for me.

So, am I too prejudiced or what?

TTFN!
Bill Joel

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Message 6
From: David Harrison
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:17:58 +0100
Subject: [Baren 36331] Re: Am I too prejudiced?
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Prejudiced? No. Prejudice requires you to prefer one thing to another before
seeing the evidence, and later regardless of it. You *have* compared and
considered woodcuts and linocuts and then decided which you prefer. That is
post- rather than pre-judgement! :-)

For myself I like several periods of woodcut book illustrations. Some of those
have as clean edges as you're ever likely to see, pure solid blacks, and so
on. I'd give my left cojone to have the talent of some of those artists. Other
folk prefer wilder, expressionistic work. Or something else again. It's a
matter of personal taste rather than prejudice.

That's my tuppence-worth.

David H

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Message 7
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 17:06:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 36332] Re: next silly question -- paper
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David,
I would do what works for you with each set of prints...there are no printmaking police coming to get us if we do it differently each time....although it sometimes seems like it.
My best to all,
Barbara

> > From: David Harrison
> > Subject: [Baren 36318] next silly question -- paper

> > Thanks again for the wealth of advice on inking a
> block with
> > some shallow bits.
> >
> > One more thing I'd love to know. I have to take a
> lot
> > of paper down to size --
> > I gather the best way is wetting a line and tearing
> against
> > a straightedge.
> >
> > Should I:
> >
> > a) print on slightly oversize paper and re-trim
> afterwards?
> > or
> > b) trim the paper to chuban size before printing?
> >
> > Does it make any difference?
> >
> > I'm a little worried about aligning it all
> properly as
> > I have a thick wood
> > block (~3/4") and at 8x6" image size
> there's
> > not much room for error!
> >
> > Why do learning experiences have to be so durn hard?
> :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > David H

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Message 8
From: Lynn Starun
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:01:09 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 36333] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4451 (Jul 31, 2008)
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Hi Maria,
Just a small issue--my middle name is Allison instead of Alison. It's a family name so I like to get it right! Thanks so much!!
Lynn

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Message 9
From: "Jean Womack"
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:54:27 -0700
Subject: [Baren 36334] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4454 (Aug 3, 2008)
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Hi Dave Harrison!

Graham Scholes recommends tearing paper and then cutting a kento into one
corner plus one edge and leaving the kento there when you're through. He
says that collectors like it that way.

Since my work is not yet collector quality, I do it any old way.

Jean Womack

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Message 10
From: Blog Manager
Date: 4 Aug 2008 03:55:39 -0000
Subject: [Baren 36335] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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Message 11
From: Scholes Graham
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:54:26 -0700
Subject: [Baren 36336] Jean sez that Graham sez
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Hi Jean....

You did not quite get that in the right order.....

I was advised by Naomi owner of the Japanese Paper Co.... (Toronto and
Montreal) a way back 15 years ago (where does the time go?) when I
started into the aerobic sport of woodblock printmaking, several great
pieces of advise....

1. Noboru Sawai (my teacher at the time) was the best place on the
west coast to purchase hosho paper and since she was not going to
benefit from a sale, her next statement I took in with great
appreciation.

2. Always use the handmade Japanese hosho paper as this was what
collectors would consider when purchasing woodblock prints. Don’t
eliminate them from the list of potential customer by using the wrong
or second grade paper.

3. It was Noboru Sawai who suggested the importance of the
kentos.... He learned that from spending 6 years learning from Toshi
Yoshida.

4. So being the teacher I passed this information on to folks in the
workshops.... “Bootcamp” for their edification.

Gosh it so important that stories don’t get mixed up and turned around
and become gossip.

Graham
www.woodblockart.ca/bootcamp/

PS You should not sell yourself short....
If you say it is not collector quality is won't be...
If you say I will make this collectors quality.... IT WILL
BE.... it may not happen on the
next print but sure as there are fish in the sea....it will
happen in time.

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Message 12
From: David Harrison
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:50:30 +0100
Subject: [Baren 36337] Re: next silly question -- paper
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Barbara,

You're right, of course. Actually it turned out to be easy enough in the end,
even if it took a while.

I found a large piece of ply with a straight bottom edge, drew lines on it
7/2" and 10" from that edge, and sprayed fixative on them so the pencil
wouldn't dirty the paper. Then I used the lines as tearing guides with a clean
strip of wood as my straight-edge. Simple! Anything with wonky edges went into
the proofing paper pile.

Cheers,

David

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