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From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:40:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38535] Re: Introduction of new member
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Message 2
From: Daniel Dew
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:47:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38536] Re: Introduction of new member
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From: guadalupe Vic
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:59:28 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38537] RE: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4766 (Mar 30, 2009)
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Message 4
From: artstieler # onlinehome.de
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:24:27 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38538] Theme for exchange #41
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Digest Appendix
Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...
Subject: Tiger & Sloth, continued
Posted by: Ellen Shipley
This item is taken from the blog pressing-issues.
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Subject: Bonsai
Posted by: Andrew Stone
My last self-portrait was done in college 25 years ago. It was a large format watercolor in a crouching position boxed in by the borders of the paper--a full sheet but still cramped at 22X30 inches. My skill at portraiture is sketchy at best so when people asked "is that supposed to be you" I wasn't totally unhappy. As it was also a nude portrait, if it seemed more comfortable for all involved I didn't always reply truthfully. When the printmakers' exchange I am participating in chose a "self portrait as/with/ or including a tree" as a theme I was initially enthused but as I began to think of how I view myself--almost 30 years later, I didn't see myself particularly treelike. I'm short, I have bony knees; I know I don't suck up ozone-depleting CO2 or generate oxygen and I doubt if even on a good day that I'm good for the environment (that will have to wait until I enter the decay cycle). I started drawing pictures of a generic male figure holding a topiary or a standard ( a standard is a horticultural term for a bushy plant or flowering shrub artificially pruned to a tree form). But I didn't like the idea of "American Standard" as a print with me in it. But moving along . . . [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog Lacrime di Rospo.
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