--- Go to the Opening Page of the [Baren] web site ---

Message 1
From: J Cloutier
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:27:24 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39547] Re: Tibetan Buddhist woodblock printmaking
Send Message: To this poster

Eileen, that's a wonderful idea! I think that would inspire some
fascinating images!

Jane

>Exchange 43 is still a ways off but I thought I would put a suggestion out
>there. Apropos of these wonderful links to the Tibetan Buddhist woodblock
>printmaking, I wonder if some would welcome an exchange focused on
>typography. Images could be allowed but the main object of the carving would
>be letters.
>
>I love to doodle letters and numbers. I was thinking yesterday how humans
>are distinct from other animals in that they draw (please correct me if I'm
>wrong!) which is half a step away from writing. Arabic writing esp has a
>tradition of beautiful stylization. Drawing, writing, maybe we could
>celebrate that link. (Perhaps there has been an exchange like this in the
>past?)
>
>Peace, Eileen

• [Back to message index]

Message 2
From: Lana Lambert
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:58:51 GMT
Subject:
Send Message: To this poster

Typography sounds like a fun approach.

• [Back to message index]

Message 3
From: Linda Beeman
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:20:03 GMT
Subject: [Baren 39549] RE: New Baren Digest (Text) V48 #4919 (Aug 2, 2009)
Send Message: To this poster

Jean, thank you for your generosity! There are two others ahead of me yet so one of them should have your spot if you feel you want to drop on to the waiting list. I don't know who takes care of the list but maybe they can update it.

Linda Beeman
> Regarding Exchange #42, Linda, you can have my place in the exchange and I
> will drop on to the waiting list. I have not even begun my print yet. I
> have signed up for a lot of early Childhood courses in August and other
> projects like a Farmers Market, and teaching art at vacation bible school.
> Although I miss the life of the printmaker--see the beautiful photos of the
> reception of Andy English in Chicago, I have so many Baren prints sitting
> in my basement that it makes me feel ashamed. Someone should be looking at
> them and taking them home to hang on the wall.
> Solar plates whacked me over the head and Charles Morgan got the result.
>
> Jean Womack

• [Back to message index]

• Subscribe/Unsubscribe to [Baren] here
• Switch your Digest subscription between 'Plain Text' and HTML here
• Upload your image to be used in these Digests here
• Send your 'ads' for the monthly Ad Roundup to [ads@barenforum.org], before the 15th of the month.
• Most recent statistics on our website are here
• Contact the group managers here
• [Baren] members: if you have a printmaking blog, or a website with a published ATOM feed, and wish it to be included in our daily checklist, please write to the Baren Blog Manager here. (If your blog also contains material other than woodblock-related items, we can only add you if the woodblock posts will be 'labeled' as such. The Blog Managers can provide details.)
• A list of Blogs/Sites currently being tracked by our feed scraper is here