Today's postings

  1. [Baren 41923] Re: got tigers in the mail, thanks, and all my work to date. (Carol Montgomery)
  2. [Baren 41924] Re: got tigers in the mail, thanks, and all my work to date. (Carol Montgomery)
  3. [Baren 41925] A challenge for your eyes (David Bull)
  4. [Baren 41926] Re: A challenge for your eyes (Barbara Mason)
  5. [Baren 41927] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Carol Montgomery
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41923] Re: got tigers in the mail, thanks, and all my work to date.
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Hi, All - my print was silkscreen. Thanks for the kind words. Sincerely, Carol Montgomery, Helena, MT

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Message 2
From: Carol Montgomery
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:00:58 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41924] Re: got tigers in the mail, thanks, and all my work to date.
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Repeat of Message #1
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Message 3
From: David Bull
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:03:17 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41925] A challenge for your eyes
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This isn't specifically about art, but _does_ use your 'eyeballing'
skills (something that is important to people in our line of work, if
only when hanging our finished pictures!).

http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html

Click on the small square, and drag it until it the item you are
viewing matches the description. When you are ready, click 'next'. The
puzzle will take you around the same problems three times in all, and
then give you your final score.

Dave
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Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:19:05 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41926] Re: A challenge for your eyes
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6.41 and 229
I was too high on all the centers by a smidge...however much that is
this was really fun
my best
Barbara

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Subject: Medical Woodblock Prints
Posted by: Annie B

Chasing Measles Away - Utagawa, 1862
This tidbit came to me yesterday through Beth Cullom on Twitter (via Tokyo-based web site Pink Tentacle). The University of California San Francisco has an online gallery of 400 woodblock prints on health-related themes. Very intriguing images for me, given how I love all that sciency-stuff in my art.

A lot of the pieces, 80 in all, deal with the treatment and prevention of three contagious diseases -- smallpox, measles and cholera. A number of these types of prints show Buddhist or Shinto dieties intervening to prevent or cure the disease, such as the one below which is described as a talisman to ward off smallpox.
Talisman to Ward Off Smallpox: Daruma, Momotaro and Shoki, 1849
There are three or four of these smallpox prints in the collection, all executed in red ink. The red ink gave me a little chill, because when I created my Ten Little Nine Little Indians print about smallpox I used red to make the smallpox virus that "wraps" the Indian. There must be something red about smallpox. But then again, maybe there's just something red about the deity . . .
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Subject: "Deer Creek Ranch"
Posted by: Jim


"Deer Creek Ranch", originally uploaded by jrlarimer.

16 x 20 palette knife painting on canvas.


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