Today's postings
- [Baren 38103] Re: reduction print registration (RAKESH BANI)
- [Baren 38104] Re: Helen Frankenthaller - Video portrait (Annie Bissett)
- [Baren 38105] Re: reduction print registration (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 38106] Re: reduction print registration (Charles Morgan)
- [Baren 38107] Re: Helen Frankenthaller - Video portrait ("Louise Cass")
- [Baren 38108] Re: Helen Frankenthaller - Video portrait (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
- [Baren 38109] That's a new one... ("Mark Mason")
- [Baren 38110] RE: That's a new one... ("Maria Arango")
- [Baren 38111] Re: That's a new one... (Graham Scholes)
- [Baren 38112] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: RAKESH BANI
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:26:34 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38103] Re: reduction print registration
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I want to ask you that if any one who know about plate lithography, (
in allumunium plate) please help me I want to know the techniqueofthis
. How to draw in plate and what process wehave to apply and print,
printing I know is similler to lithography , that I know.so help me
rakesh bani
Message 2
From: Annie Bissett
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:50:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38104] Re: Helen Frankenthaller - Video portrait
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woodblock prints in the past few years and admired them, but didn't
know much about her. Nice to see her and hear her voice and get a
little background.
Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:13:35 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38105] Re: reduction print registration
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There is a great book by Lisae Drost that explains it all and is a great studio guide.
Called the Revised lithography Lab Manual
I think you can by it from Tamarind Institute at the U of New Mexico
http://www.takachpress.com/servlet/the-315/Revised-Lithography-Lab-Manual/Detail
this is the best book written on this subject
My best
Barbara
Message 4
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:15:20 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38106] Re: reduction print registration
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Hello Rakesh,
That comment above is so that our friends with narrower interests will not bother reading further. You can find a world of information about waterless lithography on Nik Semenoff's web page:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~nis715/
Waterless lithography is done on aluminum plate and uses common silicon caulking as the rejection medium. Nik has also just put out a very nice DVD which has all this information on it, complete with photos. He is a very nice man, kind and helpful. I am sure he would welcome an email from you.
nik.semenoff@usask.ca
Cheers ...... Charles
Message 5
From: "Louise Cass"
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:13:03 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38107] Re: Helen Frankenthaller - Video portrait
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please send it
thanks,
Louise C.
Message 6
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:57:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38108] Re: Helen Frankenthaller - Video portrait
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Helen Frankenthaller. She has been known to use the Japanese technique for
printmaking
many of her later prints. The profile goes back and forth with clips
between a younger and older Frankenthaller.
The other video is from a group of guys called 'Drive by Press".....they
work out of the back of their car and drive around the country visiting
college campuses and Art Fairs.... don't miss the second clip where they
demo setting up the press from the trunk of a car. I wonder if back in
the early days of printing there were such traveling printmakers....going
from town to town selling hand-printed books and prints....
http://barenforum.org/blog/
thanks......Julio
Message 7
From: "Mark Mason"
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:01:40 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38109] That's a new one...
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creative professionals" which dedicated Issue 118 entirely to Japanese
design and graphics. It's a UK magazine that quite often has good articles
and tutorials for using Photoshop.
www.computerarts.co.uk
I thought Baren members would be 'interested' in part of an article
discussing the history of Japanese graphics from scroll paintings to mobile
phone graphics and the impression it will leave on young bright spark
graphic designers in the UK.
Prepare to hang your heads and weep.
Quote:
With the advent in 1764 of the Harunobu polychrome print machine, famous
print designers such as Utamaro created elegant silkscreen designs.
Unquote.
Nobody on this forum told me about the Harunobu polychrome print machine!
What a fool I've been, cutting away at blocks of wood, wiping paint on and
pushing damp paper at it, when all along, all I needed was the Harunobu
polychrome print machine! ; )
How they have managed to mistake the development of multi colour block
printing techniques to produce what were called brocade prints, i.e.: colour
prints (I believe) and come up with a silkscreen multi colour printing
machine is a bit gobsmacking. Maybe someone at the magazine was using a poor
piece of translation software, or their digitally tuned brains just can't
fathom a concept like hand printing techniques.
I despair to think of all the up and coming graphic designers viewing
woodblock prints, musing at the wonders of "The Harunobu Polychrome Print
Machine" and then going online to see if they can pick up a cheap one on
eBay.
Message 8
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:13:37 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38110] RE: That's a new one...
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"I despair to think of all the up and coming graphic designers viewing
woodblock prints, musing at the wonders of “The Harunobu Polychrome Print
Machine” and then going online to see if they can pick up a cheap one on
eBay."
I got one of those! HP Photosmart C4385 All-in-One Injket - $59 bucks on
sale this past Christmas.
Take a photograph run through Photoshop CS3 with the Cutline Filter called
"Woodcut" and I get an incredible approximation of a woodcut. With several
websites offering free royalty-free stock photography and all my gadgets I
will never have to actually create, carve or print a woodcut again. What a
relief! (pun intended).
Maria
O=O=O=O=O=O=O=O=O=O=O=O=O
Maria Arango
http://1000woodcuts.com
http://artfestivalguide.info
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Message 9
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:42:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38111] Re: That's a new one...
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Never thought I’d see it in our life time Maria....
Graham
Digest Appendix
Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...
Subject: NHK program on YouTube
Posted by: Dave Bull
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Somebody has already put up last night's NHK program on YouTube. I don't know if it will be allowed to stay there, but anyway - for the moment - here it is: (I'm already getting requests for a translation, but you'll just have to hang on a bit; I've got to get this print out the door first, before I can fool around with this other stuff ... I have some recording to do for Story A Week this coming Saturday evening, so I'll try and do an English version of the audio for this talk then ...) |
This item is taken from the blog Woodblock RoundTable.
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Subject: [Seacoast in Winter - 11] : Impressions 12 ~ 13
Posted by: Dave Bull
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Continued from [Seacoast in Winter - 10] | Starting point of the thread is [Seacoast in Winter]  Step #12 - Putting still more depth into the water ...  That's not it for the water; there will be one more impression, which will add transparency in the areas of the underwater rocks. Step #13 - And the darkest small patches of cloud now appear ...  The sky overall is still too light, and we'll be returning to it for another impression later ... |
This item is taken from the blog Woodblock RoundTable.
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Subject: Re-working Lincoln
Posted by: Annie B
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The portrait of Lincoln I've been wrestling with has taken a turn. Let me show you what happened. Yesterday morning I pulled out some better proofing paper and worked on my pigments to get the red and blue colors to match the sample swatch that Julia Talcott sent me. (Julia is the Boston illustrator who organized this (Un)Limited print exchange.) Then I took a few proofs of the two blocks with the adjusted colors.  Block 1 / Red Layer  Block 2 / Blue Layer [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog Woodblock Dreams.
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Subject:
Posted by: Diane Cutter
 'Jack' Woodcut ~ Grabado en Madera 6"x4" ~ 15 x 10 cm The 'Different Strokes from Different Folks' blog is the wonderful brainchild of artist Karin Jurick. It's a bi-weekly challenge to us artists to all create from the same photograph. Never being quick on the draw, no pun intended, I've had the Week 1 Challenge 'My Jack' floating around the studio and .... finally ... he's done. There have been more than 20 challenges to date. These are supposed to be done within a two week time frame. Somehow that doesn't work for me but the inspiration does ... eventually. If you need some of that inspiration, I suggest visiting that site. There might just be something that sets you to carving... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ El blog 'Different Strokes from Different Folks' es la creacion maravillosa de la artista Karin Jurick. Es una reta cada dos semanas a nosotros los artistas a crear de la misa fotografia. Como nunca hago nada rapidamente, el imagen de la primera semana ha sido circulando mi estudio y ... finalmente ... esta hecha. Han sido mas de 20 retas hasta al dia. Se deben terminarlas dentro de un periodo de dos semanas. De alguna manera . . . [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog The Itinerant Artist.
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Subject: The Year of the Ox
Posted by: Pistoles Press
 I hope I don't ruin it for anyone but I had to post an image of my Year of the Ox Exchange block. I had done two sketches but couldn't decide which one to do. I had a design with a musk ox but last minute I had a gut inclination to go with my Nandi sketch. Nandi is the name of the white Brahman Bull that Shiva rides. Nandi means "joyful." I grew up helping my father with our beef cattle and I have an affinity for livestock. When we would go out to feed the cows it was fun to see the calves jumping and skipping in the field and when the feed came out the cows would jump and skip too as they raced to our truck. It was rare to see the bull jump or skip because he pretty much just shoved where he wanted to go so I guess he didn't get much excited about anything.... except a cow in heat maybe. Anyways, The god Nandi just seemed perfect for the Year of the Ox because we need an excuse to be joyful and because I just love Brahman cattle. I love that hump and the droopy ears! I wanted a dynamic pose and I'm wondering now if I didn't just end up doing . . . [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog Pistoles Press.
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Subject: London British Museum
Posted by: JennifersCabin
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Have just spent three days in London, catching up on art shows and museums. However well we plan, the highlights were accidental discoveries. There is a lesson there somewhere! Trying to find a small exhibition on tribal people of the Himalayas, we were directed on a detour through the Japan Gallery. This proved to include an exhibition of Japanese prints selected by the artist Julian Opie.   The show has had no publicity that I found, but here are some of my favourites |
This item is taken from the blog Jennifer Martindale.
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