Today's postings

  1. [Baren 39242] Happy Canada Day! (Charles Morgan)
  2. [Baren 39243] Re: Happy Canada Day! (Daniel Dew)
  3. [Baren 39244] a clip (Claudia Coonen)
  4. [Baren 39245] Re: a clip (Charles Morgan)
  5. [Baren 39246] Do we have any members in Colorado? (David Bull)
  6. [Baren 39247] Re: Do we have any members in Colorado? (Barbara Mason)
  7. [Baren 39248] Re: Lino printing / letterpress (Melissa West)
  8. [Baren 39249] Re: Lino printing / letterpress (Georgina Leahy)
  9. [Baren 39250] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:25:28 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39242] Happy Canada Day!
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I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy Canada Day!

Cheers ...... Charles
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Message 2
From: Daniel Dew
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:29:07 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39243] Re: Happy Canada Day!
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Back at ya, eh!
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Message 3
From: Claudia Coonen
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:47:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39244] a clip
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If you haven't seen or met the guys from Cannonball Press, these guys are a
hoot.
Makes working large look easy...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZYPUZQRdDI

claudia
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Message 4
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:15:09 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39245] Re: a clip
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Looked GREAT!!! One thing that was not clear ... what did they do with the handles during the printing? Looks like they took them off before running through the press and then put them back on to take the plate off the paper. But then how could they be sure the two plates would stay together?

Cheers .... Charles
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Message 5
From: David Bull
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:18:44 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39246] Do we have any members in Colorado?
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Reason I ask is this news report that was published recently, about a
28-foot long poster from 1887 that is _purported_ to be a woodblock
print, and which is on display in Edwards, Colorado.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090701/AE/906309956/1078&ParentProfile=1062

It certainly doesn't look 'woodblocky' in the small image on the site
(even their 'enlargement'), and his comment about using 128 woodblocks
(how would he know?) smells funny, but I wonder ...

Any members nearby?

Dave
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Message 6
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:27:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39247] Re: Do we have any members in Colorado?
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Looks like an engraving to me...they probably don't understand the difference between engraving and woodblock
Barbara
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Message 7
From: Melissa West
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:28:47 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39248] Re: Lino printing / letterpress
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Hi Georgina et al--
I don't know where you live, but you might want to check out the San
Francisco Center for the Book.
http://www.sfcb.org/
They have many classes on letterpress, bookbinding, and printmaking.
Well worth investigating-- and if you're not in the SF bay area, they
might be able to recommend something closer to you.

Melissa
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Melissa West
816 Hanover Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
831-466-0493
melissa at mswest.com
www.mswest.com
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Message 8
From: Georgina Leahy
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:31:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39249] Re: Lino printing / letterpress
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Hi thanks for that but I live in Brisbane Australia.  I looked at that clip about Cannonball press earlier and was admiring the facilities there, and I looked at the San Francisco Centre for the Book and that is great also.  You have some great places in North America that is for sure.  One thing I like abouyt Baren is the constandt little tidbits I get about the rest of the printmaking world.  For the most part though I just look in wonder!  My community printmaking group operates from under a very dedicated members house!  Although we are constantly applying for grants ect to try to get a better home.  
Georgina

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Subject: Artist’s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics
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K-State Collegian
Published: Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Artist?s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics

By Hannah Blick

The emotion in Mike Lyon?s artwork is inspired by old Japanese prints. The shapes are determined by the contours of the faces of his closest friends, friendly strangers, and the outcome hinges on the mechanics of his latest digital tools.

?Figuring it out: Prints and drawings by Mike Lyon? is on display until July 18 at the Beach Museum of Art.

Bill North, senior curator at the museum, said though Lyon has always had an artist?s touch and studied art in college, he got his start when he went to work in Kansas City, Mo., for his family?s cattle hide processing business in 1976. While working there, Lyon invented a computerized system that made it faster and easier for the workers grading cattle hides. His idea was wildly successful, and Lyon was able to sell his new machine and go to work as an artist full time.

This type of automation and machinery play a large role in Lyon?s work, along with a taste for Japanese print work, North said. Lyon has a collection of nearly 2,000 Japanese prints.

?One thing that really attracted me to his work is that few artists are using digital technology in a responsible and judicious way,? North said. ?This marriage of Western and Eastern traditions and ways is so fascinating.?

Mike Lyon and Mike Lyon and "Crosby" (photo: Chelsy Leuth)

At the entrance to Lyon?s gallery at the Beach Museum, five oversized faces stare out, full of ambiguous emotion, each wrinkle and hair clearly defined in a maze of ink squiggles and geometric shapes.

Lyon said he starts his process by having the model for each piece come in to his Kansas City studio, where he takes hundreds of photos of their face. He then spends several weeks painstakingly selecting the perfect photo to turn into a print piece.

?Most people don?t look like art,? he said. ?But the right image ? I know it when I see it, it?s just the aesthetics, I can?t explain it.?

He then programs a machine called the ShopBot with data converted from the digital photographic files to trace the image with a simple ink pen. The files tell the machine how far . . .
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