Today's postings

  1. [Baren 43916] keeping track of work / myth exchange ("bobcatpath # 207me.com")
  2. [Baren 43917] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Oldfield Press)
  3. [Baren 43918] hanga prints and a press (Marilynn Smith)
  4. [Baren 43919] Re: hanga prints and a press (Mike Lyon)
  5. [Baren 43920] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: "bobcatpath # 207me.com"
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:46:18 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43916] keeping track of work / myth exchange
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hi bareners

i keep track of my wood and linocuts
in much the same way as Diane

using 4 x 6 " note cards in a metal box for
information on ' how to print ' each one
ie: color order,
spot rubs etc
along with the dimentions title, type of wood, edition

the written record of WHERE each print has gone-

i keep in those tall record books
single or double entry- whatever they are called !

with again- the tile/ editon/ dimentions /any particulars
then each number has the name and address of whoever bought it
although some may only say the gallery it was sold 'out- of '

with the baren exchanges-
i have started
numbering my editions of 100, backwards-
so it will say #69-100 baren ex # ...

then i can stilll sell low numbers of my work -which some people seem to prefer

tho now- i am also starting
to put no edition at all on some

just a title and sign it

i am not a computer whiz

by the time i figure out how to do all the __________

i could have just written it in my record book ;-)


would like to say 'thank you and WOW'
to all Myth exchange people

it is great


gillyin in Maine
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Message 2
From: Oldfield Press
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:07:40 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43917] Re: Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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hi all,

this is my blog update re the Exchange. Hope you like it

www.oldfield-press.blogspot.com

Tone
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Message 3
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:35:20 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43918] hanga prints and a press
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Are you aware that you can print your Japanese style water based
prints on a press? Personally I prefer a Baren over a press for them,
but it can be done successfully.

Marilynn
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Message 4
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:41:31 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43919] Re: hanga prints and a press
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Especially handy for LARGE woodcuts! :o)

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Subject: Mystique Series #15 : finished!
Posted by: Dave Bull

The final couple of impressions will need a bit of explaining, I guess.

The embossing of the outer margin is normally the final step in these Mystique prints. It needs to be done while the paper is still moist and soft, and yet if the paper is slipped back into the stack after making it, the moisture there will cause the paper to 'fluff up' in the embossed area, weakening the effect.

So I normally move the sheets directly from the embossing block to the drying process, and indeed, that is what I did this time. Here is the scan after embossing and drying:

But in the case of this print, we're not finished yet. There is still one step left - a metallic 'pigment' pattern.

I'm choosing to do this on dry paper for a couple of reasons: first is that if the paper were moist, and then put back into the stack after printing the metallic, the 'shine' on the impression would be reduced somewhat. It loses glisten. But more important is that if the paper is moist, any metal powder that falls in an area where it is not needed can not easily be removed, as it tends to stick in the paper crevices. The entire area near the pattern ends up with a metallic 'glow'. Doing it on dry paper makes it much easier to brush away unneeded powder.

I recorded a segment of the printing session, and it can be seen on . . .
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Subject: Tea Party Proof
Posted by: Phare-Camp

The next step in the barenforum.org exchanges 49 and 50.  These are the keyline proofs.  I'm thinking of cutting repurposed stryrofoam take out trays for puzzle printing the color fields.




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Subject: The "going away" event
Posted by: Alynn Guerra

Back in March The Beehive Collective visited my hometown and besides giving the presentation at GVSU, teaching a workshop at my studio and coming with me to the local brewery, they also planted in my brain the idea of coming to Machias and visit their community. I've been wanting to do so ever since I met them for the first time back in 2001. The idea of driving/flying/riding the train all the

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Subject: All Exchange
Posted by: Oldfield Press




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Subject: Go Big or Go Home?



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