Today's postings

  1. [Baren 44114] shipping overseas (Linda Beeman)
  2. [Baren 44115] Re: shipping overseas (finsonius # gmail.com)
  3. [Baren 44116] Re: shipping overseas (Barbara Mason)
  4. [Baren 44117] Re: shipping overseas (Mike Lyon)
  5. [Baren 44118] Re: shipping overseas (Graham Scholes)
  6. [Baren 44119] Re: shipping overseas (David Frederick)
  7. [Baren 44120] Re: shipping overseas (Graham Scholes)
  8. [Baren 44121] Re: new member ("Ellen Shipley")
  9. [Baren 44122] Re: new member (Gretchen Greene)
  10. [Baren 44123] Please make this introductory posting for me (Lawrence H Pinto)
  11. [Baren 44124] Re: Canadian landscape prints (Dave Bull)
  12. [Baren 44125] Re: print exchange hosting (Gretchen Greene)
  13. [Baren 44126] Relief for relief Benefit update (Barbara Mason)
  14. [Baren 44127] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Linda Beeman
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:41:17 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44114] shipping overseas
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I need to ship some prints overseas. I'm thinking of rolling them into a tube. Went to UPS store and they recommended using a pvc tube from Home Depot with one end sealed and one end with a screw top that I can tape but customs can open. I worried about what a pvc tube looks like going thru the mail system so wondering if you all have other ideas. Is flat better?

Linda Beeman
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Message 2
From: finsonius # gmail.com
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:45:05 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44115] Re: shipping overseas
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My experience is that USPS is better price-wise internationally. Check them
out. If the prints are large, rolling them softly is fine. If smaller, send
flat. The pvc idea is a good one - have done that before.

Jeannot Barr
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Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:00:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44116] Re: shipping overseas
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My experience is that the us mail is cheapest and a tube is very safe, hard to crush or bend. Sometimes the mail uses fed ex to ship their stuff for half the price
My best
Barbara
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Message 4
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:21:11 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44117] Re: shipping overseas
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I've mailed large work rolled into the larges PVC tubes I could find -- cut
an inch longer than the prints, use slip-on endcaps (not threaded), tape
each endcap to the tube and you're safe. Be sure to use newsprint or some
other wrapper around the rolled up prints so the inside of the PVC doesn't
get them dirty. They're virtually unbreakable and still easy to open
repeatedly. No worries!

For work you don't want to roll as tightly, you can use larger cardboard or
pvc concrete forming tubes -- but endcaps will have to be custom cut, I
imagine.
--
Mike Lyon
816-213-3666
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com
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Message 5
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:40:24 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44118] Re: shipping overseas
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Barbara's got it figured.... Mail the prints in a large tube.
Your best deal for tubes is from a shop/store that sells concrete form tubes. The come in many sizes.

Graham
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Message 6
From: David Frederick
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:26:20 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44119] Re: shipping overseas
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I would not worry about using PVC tubes. In the violin business we use PVC tubes regularly for shipping bows.

We make them for reuse- capping one end and then using a screw cap for the other. For a 38"x2 1/2" tube it will run around $5-$8 ...and Abs tubing (the black colored one) it cheaper.

Regards,

David Frederick, Violin Maker
theviolinshopinlincoln.com
402.474.1640
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Message 7
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:49:00 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44120] Re: shipping overseas
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For shipping a print..... I would suggest using nothing less than 4" tube
When I ship several 4+ prints I use 6" tubes.

The hosho paper I use is 12 momme.... fairly substantial and requires large tubes.
Thinner paper could be rolled into a tighter dia and so slightly smaller tube can be used.

Graham
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Message 8
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:26:13 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44121] Re: new member
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Hi Gretchen,

Welcome to the forum. It's a friendly place and a wealth of collective knowledge!

We're on opposite sides of the continent, but I'm up for chatting online. ;-]

Do you have a blog or website to look at and see your work? Color me curious.

You'll love the exchanges. Jump right in and see what amazing prints you'll get.

Looking forward to seeing your work.

Ellen
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com/
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Message 9
From: Gretchen Greene
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:40:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44122] Re: new member
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Hi Ellen,

Not yet. A website is on my to do list for this fall. I'm on the waiting list for the tiny little print exchange, so maybe you'll get one of my prints from that.

Is that cave painting unicorn brown yours (on the website below your name)? I like it a lot.

It looks like you're in Burbank. Is that right? I just moved here from Pasadena.

Gretchen

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Message 10
From: Lawrence H Pinto
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:17:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44123] Please make this introductory posting for me
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Dear Baren Forum People,

I'm a beginning printmaker and have found the posts on the forum to be very useful.

I'm a scientist with an ecology project in northern Ontario (Algoma district), and the scenery of my study area looks like Hiroshige prints. It is a part of the world that is relatively close to highly populated areas but it's still wilderness. The area is being threatened with development, some of which is inappropriate. I'd like to 'honor' the area with prints depicting its unique character (Lake Superior Shore, "big bonsai" trees, granite outcroppings). This has been done before for some parts of Algoma that were painted by the group of seven painters in the early 20th century.

I feel that woodcuts (Hanga) might be a good way to honor and help conserve Algoma, and for that reason I attended the International Moku Hanga Conference and Kitamura's workshop in Japan in June this year. Prior to that I took a course in Evanston IL with Julian Cox and a one day course with Mary Brodbeck in Kalamazoo, MI. Since the Japan course, I've been focusing on making drawings with sufficient simplicity to convey what I feel is important about Algoma, and will soon start to resume making prints.

It is certain that I'll be posting questions. My long-term goals are to become proficient enough to enter print exchanges and to organize a print exchange and exhibition at a suitable gallery that focuses on the conservation of this area. I would appreciate advice on how I can achieve these goals, and particularly would appreciate practical advice for the latter.

Thank you.

Larry Pinto
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Message 11
From: Dave Bull
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:26:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44124] Re: Canadian landscape prints
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> I'd like to 'honor' the area with prints depicting its unique character (Lake Superior Shore, "big bonsai" trees, granite outcroppings). This has been done before for some parts of Algoma that were painted by the group of seven painters in the early 20th century.

Not just the Group of Seven, but printmaker Walter Phillips. He made many prints of those landscapes:
http://www.sharecom.ca/phillips/contents.html

Dave
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Message 12
From: Gretchen Greene
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:24:04 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44125] Re: print exchange hosting
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Larry,
I saw a document with advice on running an exchange when I was searching for print exchanges. Try searching "print exchange" on Google.
Gretchen
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Message 13
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:58:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44126] Relief for relief Benefit update
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So far we have sold about $2000 worth here in Oregon and our third show is happening this weekend...I still don't have a final amount from Bend so the number might go up.
All in all it has been a very satisfying experience. With the money made in S Africa for the red cross we are making a small but important difference in the lives of a few people who have lost everything but friends they did not even know they had. I am going to try to take a lot of photos and the Japanese Consulate is planning to attend so that is a good thing..
It might boost our sales. Aritsan Renovations send out several thousand invitations at their own expense to promote the exhibition this Sat. More soon....
And we are just sending off prints to Sharen Linders who has arranged an exhibit at the university in Deer Park IL...things are moving forward!
My best to you all
Barbara

Digest Appendix

Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...

Subject: Senshafuda - Summer 2011 : Progress update ...
Posted by: Dave Bull

Yesterday morning while working, I had the webcam up and running, and was curious if any of the viewers would 'wonder' about what I was doing ... because the work visible on the bench certainly wasn't my normal work ...

I didn't have to wait too long; I had only been at it for a short time when the (Skype) phone rang. A collector over in the US (checking in to watch for a while in his late evening ...) saw what I was doing, could instantly tell that there was 'trouble in River City', and called to find out what was happening ...

He was right about the trouble, but how did he know?

Well, it was clearly visible on the Webcam that I was sitting there with the blocks for the Summer Senshafuda set on my bench, doing a proof copy. Given that Tetsui-san has had these blocks for weeks, had already prepared some proofs, and had been given his 'final' instructions for going ahead with the edition, seeing the blocks back on my own bench was clearly an indication that something had gone off the rails somewhere along the line.

When we last saw these prints on these Conversations, I showed and talked about his latest proof, and mentioned that I had given him a list of 'change orders' to cover as he began the edition itself. I asked him to run around 50 sheets first, so that we could get them out to collectors without delay, then do the other 150 later.

His package of 50 or so prints arrived the other day. None of my changes had been implemented - the 50 were pretty much the same as the previous proof. And worse, many of them had poor printing in places (goma-zuri and baren-suji).

When I called him to 'chat', he was equivocal about things, saying that he had done them quickly 'at my request', that he had had trouble with some of the blocks, and that he had also taken another job that would fill out this week, before starting the balance of the order. I told him to send the blocks back to me ...

So that's what I was up to yesterday morning, pulling some proofs myself - obviously the only way to get this nailed down properly.

Some of the points were straight ahead. I had rejected his original green colour (the one on the left here, which I felt didn't look natural and 'summery' at all), so now printed up a sample of exactly what I want (on the right).

I had asked him to make the woman behind the screen much lighter in tone than his first proofs (reduce the transparency of the screen), but he failed to make the change. This is what I want ...

In his earlier proof of the image from the aquarium, he had basically got the balance of tones correct on the two children, but in this batch of 50, had put so much saturation into the water gradation that the human figures became difficult to see:


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Subject: Work in Progress: Lotus Block and Proofs
Posted by: Amanda

I'm thrilled to be included in the upcoming Women's Invitational Exhibition (September 17th - October 30th) at Traillworks in Newton, NJ. Jennie Traill Schaeffer invited several women artists to create works of art inspired by the play Susan Goodell's play Hope Throws Her Heart Away, which will be performed Tri-State Actors Theater at Traillworks on Saturday, September 24th.

Here is one of the pieces I'm working on for the show:
First Block (12" x 16")
First Proof of the key block, which I then transferred to 3 other blocks
Quinacridone Magenta

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