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Message 1
From: "Oscar Bearinger"
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:24:57 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36472] for Sharen Linder
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Apologies to the list again,

Sharen, would you send me your postal address please?
(I can't seem to find it!)
It would appear my email didn't reach you, via yr husband's address either :o(

Thanks.

Oscar
comcasted out in Ontario

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Message 2
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:16:17 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36473] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4466 (Aug 7, 2008)
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Picasso invented the reduction print. He was far from stupid or dull.
In fact it is very clever. You use one plate, not many and it saves
both dollars and time. I love doing reduction prints, and often what
is left behind is a beautiful and more simplistic image. I have
printed what remains after doing a reduction print many times and it
has been a very successful image. It is far from destruction. As
artists are we not supposed to cancel our plates??? Tell me how is a
plate that has only one part of an image more beautiful than one that
has the remaining parts of an image??? Now if you are Maria, you
would seal those beautiful one color plates and sell them as art.
Multi color plates are a little different, they are pieces and parts
if you are doing hanga. But, as I just said I have had several
instances where the remaining image from doing a reduction plate is
lovely enough to use as a series all of its own.
Marilynn

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Message 3
From: David Harrison
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:32:45 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36474] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4466 (Aug 7, 2008)
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Again, here's a link to an article from 2001 that describes him as the first
'name' artist known to use the technique, rather than its inventor. Apparently
it was already in use by some small presses and in schools, and he took it up
on recommendation from a printer. The idea that he invented it is said to have
come about later and been self-reinforcing ever since:

http://tinyurl.com/5awf35
or
http://www.printsandprintmaking.gov.au/catalogues/bibliography/136140/bunbury44-alisa-not-picassos-invention--a-foray-in.aspx

Not that it subtracts on iota from his genius as a printmaker! The article
quotes plenty of sources, so it doesn't seem like a polemic in any way.

Cheers,

David H

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Message 4
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:35:10 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36475] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4467 (Aug 7, 2008)
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My registration method and Barbaras are almost identical. I have an L
that is cut from a piece of partical board it is not 2 pieces glued
together, but cut as an L. I am lucky to have tool man for a
husband. The corners are rounded and they stay with the block as the
push plate. I use masking tape for an L shaped kento mark, two layers,
that seems to be thick enough. You push the carved block into the L
shape each time you run it and it works very well. I found carving
kentos to be less precise as each plate would be slightly differently,
this way I can adjust if I need to if something is off and it rarely is.

Marilynn

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Message 5
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:39:49 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36476] Re: Chinese printing ...
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Dave,
This was a really interesting link, I wandered around in the site for quite awhile looking at the artwork and the cute children. The villages are what I think of as old China, not the modern 6 lane highways and skyscrapers. It was interesting to see the old still exists and that the hand crafts still are valued. I was especially taken with the painted dough totems..they were so charming. I want to know more about these. I am fascinated with the development of our "Gods" and the symbols. The history or art is surely hand in hand with the history of religion all mixed up with cultural stuff. So much to know and so little time... rats.
My best to all
Barbara


This link came in to my Inbox today from Google Alerts - a
> new page
> with a video of the Chinese printing method:
> http://chinavine.ucf.edu/dazhao/woodcut-work/

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Message 6
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:42:54 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36477] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V44 #4468 (Aug 7, 2008)
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Linda,
Go to the Baren site and take a look at the work in the exchange
links. You will get a great sampling of what everyone does who is an
active Baren member and you only have to visit the one site. Welcome.
marilynn

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Message 7
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:43:38 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36478] Re: question on registration for Western style printing
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I print upside down -- i.e., paper first, block face down -- so I don't find I have much of a registration problem when I use multiple blocks.

Ellen

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Message 8
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:50:25 GMT
Subject: [Baren 36479] Suicide Blocks
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Graham pondered:
I have never found out the guy who invented.... if you want to call it
that.... the method of reduction plates.... SUICIDE method.
I have never been able to figure why anyone would do that.

It's economical, it's lazy, but most importantly it's exciting. You make one mistake and you're dead, ergo, the name: suicide block.

I've only done one and it's my favorite accomplishment. (I don't get out much.)

Ellen

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