Today's postings
- [Baren 43340] Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio (eli griggs)
- [Baren 43341] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio (Hannah Skoonberg)
- [Baren 43342] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio (Barbara Mason)
- [Baren 43343] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio (eli griggs)
- [Baren 43344] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio (eli griggs)
- [Baren 43345] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: eli griggs
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 04:00:59 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43340] Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio
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If I recall correctly, Baren used to have some materials available to members
for conducting classes on woodcut printmaking. Is this material still available
or, do any members here have teaching material that they can share? I could
also use some general, copyright free images for making up class booklets or a
powerpoint presentation.
A general outline on hand-printing would be helpful, so I can see if I'm leaving
anything out or putting too much emphasis on the wrong points, but mostly, I
want to see how others are approaching instruction to different age groups, from
young teens to aspiring adult printmakers.
I am thinking about doing a small one or two day workshop for 5 to 12 people on
the basics of woodcut printmaking, without a traditional press, and would like
to see what others are doing on the topic.
Any suggestions as to tools and materials to have on hand will be welcomed. The
tools I will have available will pretty basic, mostly woodworkers and self-made
knives, v-tools, gouges and bull-nose chisels, as I want participants to
understand how little is needed to get started. Spoons, rolling-pins, wood door
pulls and pin-presses.
I plan to use water and oil based roll-out inks and sumi with light weight
papers.
By-the-way, Monday I begin to move into a small, open studio space at the
Charlotte Art League, where I've rented wall space for a few years. This will
be my first studio, away from home, and I'm looking forward to change.
Eli
for conducting classes on woodcut printmaking. Is this material still available
or, do any members here have teaching material that they can share? I could
also use some general, copyright free images for making up class booklets or a
powerpoint presentation.
A general outline on hand-printing would be helpful, so I can see if I'm leaving
anything out or putting too much emphasis on the wrong points, but mostly, I
want to see how others are approaching instruction to different age groups, from
young teens to aspiring adult printmakers.
I am thinking about doing a small one or two day workshop for 5 to 12 people on
the basics of woodcut printmaking, without a traditional press, and would like
to see what others are doing on the topic.
Any suggestions as to tools and materials to have on hand will be welcomed. The
tools I will have available will pretty basic, mostly woodworkers and self-made
knives, v-tools, gouges and bull-nose chisels, as I want participants to
understand how little is needed to get started. Spoons, rolling-pins, wood door
pulls and pin-presses.
I plan to use water and oil based roll-out inks and sumi with light weight
papers.
By-the-way, Monday I begin to move into a small, open studio space at the
Charlotte Art League, where I've rented wall space for a few years. This will
be my first studio, away from home, and I'm looking forward to change.
Eli
Message 2
From: Hannah Skoonberg
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 04:57:49 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43341] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio
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That sounds like a fun workshop. You may want to cover some
registration techniques. The kento registration and pin hole registration
are my 2 favorite methods for relief. I remember when I first learned a
little printmaking registration was some kind of mystery. As for tools I
personally like the speedball linoleum cutters they are affordable and won't
intimidate a new printmaker and you can try a number of tips to see which
you like. Make sure they know how to carve without stabbing themselves in
the fingers. I hope you have a great class!
Hannah
registration techniques. The kento registration and pin hole registration
are my 2 favorite methods for relief. I remember when I first learned a
little printmaking registration was some kind of mystery. As for tools I
personally like the speedball linoleum cutters they are affordable and won't
intimidate a new printmaker and you can try a number of tips to see which
you like. Make sure they know how to carve without stabbing themselves in
the fingers. I hope you have a great class!
Hannah
Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 05:26:08 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43342] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio
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Eli,
I think you can use anything you wish from the Baren Encyclopedia and I would
use the one point lessons, they are very good.
Also you can probably use the images from the exchanges for your powerpoint.
Dave has a great CD and download for very little money and I think Graham
Scholes also has a video.
I have a history I wrote for young people a few years ago that I will forward
to you, it is a condensed version of the long ones that are in the encyclopedia
and geared down a bit.
The really critical thing with young people is to have them use the rubber shelf
liner to carve on and to keep both hands on the tool, impossible to cut yourself
that way. I have worked with kids as young as 5th grade, any younger and they do
not have the motor skills needed to carve wood. When I teach woodblock, I try to
do one day classes a week apart, so they carve the first day and have the week
to finish and then we print the second day. The more sessions you can get them
to come to the easier it is, this is hard to learn in a weekend! I visited
Maria in Las Vegas a week ago and saw the actual "Baren Bonnet". It was amazing
and works well, I am looking forward to trying to make one! congrats on the
studio!
My best
Barbara
I think you can use anything you wish from the Baren Encyclopedia and I would
use the one point lessons, they are very good.
Also you can probably use the images from the exchanges for your powerpoint.
Dave has a great CD and download for very little money and I think Graham
Scholes also has a video.
I have a history I wrote for young people a few years ago that I will forward
to you, it is a condensed version of the long ones that are in the encyclopedia
and geared down a bit.
The really critical thing with young people is to have them use the rubber shelf
liner to carve on and to keep both hands on the tool, impossible to cut yourself
that way. I have worked with kids as young as 5th grade, any younger and they do
not have the motor skills needed to carve wood. When I teach woodblock, I try to
do one day classes a week apart, so they carve the first day and have the week
to finish and then we print the second day. The more sessions you can get them
to come to the easier it is, this is hard to learn in a weekend! I visited
Maria in Las Vegas a week ago and saw the actual "Baren Bonnet". It was amazing
and works well, I am looking forward to trying to make one! congrats on the
studio!
My best
Barbara
Message 4
From: eli griggs
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 06:34:38 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43343] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio
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Thank you Barbara, I appreciate both the advice and the downloads.
Cheers,
Eli
Cheers,
Eli
Message 5
From: eli griggs
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 06:35:17 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43344] Re: Baren teaching materials and my 1st real studio
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Thank you Hannah.
Eli
Eli
Digest Appendix
Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...
Subject: More rejects
Posted by: Andrew Stone
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I've been drawing thumbnail and finished sketches and throwing them out as fast as I produce them. Most of the ideas haven't been too bad; it's just that they've been either too direct and blunt or just not nuanced enough to be interesting. I received a fair number of emails and private remarks about my last post and ultimately decided to listen to what seemed like good advice from others closer than I am to Japan. My favorite of the rejects was this:  I was interested in the the stillness of the usually hand-painted nature scenes but this would have had this big, rolling wave instead of the usual seasonal landscape. I got as far as this finished watercolor sketch (lots of other drawings with more or less insistent waves on them) but ditched it as just too insensitive to do at this time with so many people dead and missing. My other ideas involved carving and printing this seismogram reading taken off the coast of Sendai and recording the enormous earthquake near its epicenter. I had hoped to work it in as part of a print but found it didn't add much beside a macabre sense of tragedy and didn't like the drawings I had done that . . . [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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Subject: Double Up
Posted by: d. moll, l.ac.
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Blogger was unavailable yesterday, I hope no one or bun was harmed by their lack of Bun-A-Day.  When you are a Spot your shadow is your sibling. Sydney and Tyler 05/13/2011  Harriet enjoys going out on the patio in the evening. Harriet 05/12/2011 [Long item has been trimmed at this point. The full blog entry can be viewed here] |
This item is taken from the blog The Qi Papers.
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