Today's postings
- [Baren 44135] Inspired by Japan: good news from SA (Masako Osada)
- [Baren 44136] Re: Inspired by Japan: good news from SA (RAKESH BANI)
- [Baren 44137] Book, welcome new members (Marilynn Smith)
- [Baren 44138] Portraying water... (Phil Hillmer)
- [Baren 44139] Paper Calculator (Dale Evans)
- [Baren 44140] Please post this if it is appropriate: Reviews of two current Chicago Print-Related Events (Lawrence H Pinto)
- [Baren 44141] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: Masako Osada
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:35:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44135] Inspired by Japan: good news from SA
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Rakesh's print, posted on 23 July, has arrived in Johannesburg!!
Another good news is that a friend of mine is busy organising an
exhibition in Cape Town towards the end of October. We will try to sell
any prints that are not sold in Johannesburg.
Masako
Another good news is that a friend of mine is busy organising an
exhibition in Cape Town towards the end of October. We will try to sell
any prints that are not sold in Johannesburg.
Masako
Message 2
From: RAKESH BANI
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:38:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44136] Re: Inspired by Japan: good news from SA
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oook thanks dear Masako,,,
my print arrived at last,,,,,
and now I am in JAPAN , for attending one Printmaking Workshop.. here in
Art studio Itsukaichi, Tokyo, Japan..
thanks and regards,
rakesh bani...
2011/9/9 Masako Osada
> Rakesh's print, posted on 23 July, has arrived in Johannesburg!!
>
> Another good news is that a friend of mine is busy organising an
> exhibition in Cape Town towards the end of October. We will try to sell
> any prints that are not sold in Johannesburg.
>
> Masako
>
my print arrived at last,,,,,
and now I am in JAPAN , for attending one Printmaking Workshop.. here in
Art studio Itsukaichi, Tokyo, Japan..
thanks and regards,
rakesh bani...
2011/9/9 Masako Osada
> Rakesh's print, posted on 23 July, has arrived in Johannesburg!!
>
> Another good news is that a friend of mine is busy organising an
> exhibition in Cape Town towards the end of October. We will try to sell
> any prints that are not sold in Johannesburg.
>
> Masako
>
Message 3
From: Marilynn Smith
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:17:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44137] Book, welcome new members
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Olek, congratulations on your book. I have only done one block for the
one I want to do. But have lots of writing. I was going to edition it,
but decided to do just one and than have it done from a source that
does up books. I just have not taken time this summer to work on it.
but since it is a Baja book doing it this winter in the Baja seems
reasonable. Boy am I tired of this mini print! Almost done with it,
thank goodness. Welcome to all our new members. Do just jump in and
join exchanges, they are for beginners and advanced printmakers. We
openly enjoy and welcome the diversity.
Marilynn
one I want to do. But have lots of writing. I was going to edition it,
but decided to do just one and than have it done from a source that
does up books. I just have not taken time this summer to work on it.
but since it is a Baja book doing it this winter in the Baja seems
reasonable. Boy am I tired of this mini print! Almost done with it,
thank goodness. Welcome to all our new members. Do just jump in and
join exchanges, they are for beginners and advanced printmakers. We
openly enjoy and welcome the diversity.
Marilynn
Message 4
From: Phil Hillmer
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:32:54 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44138] Portraying water...
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Hi,
I am just wondering what kinds of techniques or tricks you master
printmakers use to portray water.
I am finishing up my print, what I did was to print a base layer of cerulean
blue and over that printed a cherry block carved with waves to show the blue
below. I inked the second block red (sunset on water). Actually the red
represents the tops of the waves becuse they are catching the light of a
sunset, the blue below is very faded as it is getting dark outside.
It looks OK I guess but I'm just wondering how I could have done it better,
Barbara M. suggested earlier this week to use wax paper to move ink around
on the block for a very interesting mottled water effect, I will be trying
that out today and over the weekend...just wondering if there are other
ideas or things I could try on my next print which also will have water -
either with carving, playing with or moving ink around the block after roll
out etc?
I am trying to make the water look fairly realistic - not like a photo but
at least I want it to look like water, in the foreground on the print I am
finishing up the waves are large, as they approach the shore on the other
side of the lake I am both reducing the thickness and length of the waves
for perspective so narrower and smaller blue shows...any other suggestions
for water as it approaches a vanishing point?
Thanks for any suggestions.
I am just wondering what kinds of techniques or tricks you master
printmakers use to portray water.
I am finishing up my print, what I did was to print a base layer of cerulean
blue and over that printed a cherry block carved with waves to show the blue
below. I inked the second block red (sunset on water). Actually the red
represents the tops of the waves becuse they are catching the light of a
sunset, the blue below is very faded as it is getting dark outside.
It looks OK I guess but I'm just wondering how I could have done it better,
Barbara M. suggested earlier this week to use wax paper to move ink around
on the block for a very interesting mottled water effect, I will be trying
that out today and over the weekend...just wondering if there are other
ideas or things I could try on my next print which also will have water -
either with carving, playing with or moving ink around the block after roll
out etc?
I am trying to make the water look fairly realistic - not like a photo but
at least I want it to look like water, in the foreground on the print I am
finishing up the waves are large, as they approach the shore on the other
side of the lake I am both reducing the thickness and length of the waves
for perspective so narrower and smaller blue shows...any other suggestions
for water as it approaches a vanishing point?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Message 5
From: Dale Evans
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:13:23 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44139] Paper Calculator
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Hello everyone,
When planning the sizes for any new print, I find that it takes me a long time - every time - to figure out how many smaller printing pages I can cut from a full sheet of paper. In order to solve this little challenge of mine, I put together a useful timesaver which will calculate the number of smaller pages of any desired size that can be cut from a single sheet of any of your favorite papers.
The spreadsheet requires 6 entries as shown in the sample table below: Width and Length of the full sheet, Width and Length of your desired page size, and then Length and Width of your desired page size. It wont matter if your measurements are in inches or centimeters just keep them consistent!
Calculate the number of smaller pages of a given size from full sheets
SHEET SIZE Width Length ACROSS DOWN Total Pages SCRAP SCRAP
30 40
PAGE SIZE Width Length
2.5 3.5 12 11 132 0 1.5
Length Width
3.5 2.5 8 16 128 2 0
After entry, the spreadsheets automatically calculate the number of small pages that can be cut from each larger sheet, and provides the amount of unusable scrap from the cuts. The caveat: be aware of the 'grain' of the paper large pages may not print properly using the traditional Japanese hanga method: "The 'grain' of the paper in each print has to run the 'long' way of the design"and thanks to Dave Bull for pointing this out!
Here is the link to the spreadsheets (cut and paste into your browser): http://www.barenforum.org/storage/paper_cut_calculator.zip
There are two spreadsheets in the zip file: one in Excel for Windows or MAC with Microsoft Office, and one in Numbers for MAC.
Hoping that the calculator will be useful to you.
Dale Evans
When planning the sizes for any new print, I find that it takes me a long time - every time - to figure out how many smaller printing pages I can cut from a full sheet of paper. In order to solve this little challenge of mine, I put together a useful timesaver which will calculate the number of smaller pages of any desired size that can be cut from a single sheet of any of your favorite papers.
The spreadsheet requires 6 entries as shown in the sample table below: Width and Length of the full sheet, Width and Length of your desired page size, and then Length and Width of your desired page size. It wont matter if your measurements are in inches or centimeters just keep them consistent!
Calculate the number of smaller pages of a given size from full sheets
SHEET SIZE Width Length ACROSS DOWN Total Pages SCRAP SCRAP
30 40
PAGE SIZE Width Length
2.5 3.5 12 11 132 0 1.5
Length Width
3.5 2.5 8 16 128 2 0
After entry, the spreadsheets automatically calculate the number of small pages that can be cut from each larger sheet, and provides the amount of unusable scrap from the cuts. The caveat: be aware of the 'grain' of the paper large pages may not print properly using the traditional Japanese hanga method: "The 'grain' of the paper in each print has to run the 'long' way of the design"and thanks to Dave Bull for pointing this out!
Here is the link to the spreadsheets (cut and paste into your browser): http://www.barenforum.org/storage/paper_cut_calculator.zip
There are two spreadsheets in the zip file: one in Excel for Windows or MAC with Microsoft Office, and one in Numbers for MAC.
Hoping that the calculator will be useful to you.
Dale Evans
Message 6
From: Lawrence H Pinto
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:18:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44140] Please post this if it is appropriate: Reviews of two current Chicago Print-Related Events
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Dear Baren Forum People,
I hope that the following post is appropriate. It has to do with two print exhibitions in Chicago at the present time.
The first is a huge exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago dealing with posters meant to rally the home front during WWII in Europe. It is centered on the Soviet News Agency, TASS. They needed to make big posters but did not have big presses, being technologically behind at that time. So, they made stencils, as many as 18 of them per poster in order to be painterly. The posters and stencils were done in 4-8 parts for the big ones and the prints were pasted together. They made editions of a few to a few hundred and the AIC got some of them. If one of the measures of art is its impact on the viewer, this is a very successful art. The people in the space are simply glued to these posters. There is even a demo and re-creation of how the stencils were made. I ran into a former colleague from the old soviet union and she was so taken with it that it took her 3 hours to go through, and 2 weeks to recover. There is another 'side show' in the prints and drawings rooms of AIC showing how Goya's work foretold this type of rallying of the home front. I do not know if it will travel, but if it does, all print makers would get a lot from it. There is a big fat catalog, too. There was a New York Times article about this, but seeing it was so much more than the article led me to expect. Here's a link:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS/
There is also a poster search site:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS/Poster-Search
The second was an exhibition and talk by a young printmaker, Katrina Andry, who works in woodcuts. She is an independent printmaker from New Orleans and she just finished a residence at Anchor Graphics, which is a print shop within Columbia College, which is right downtown a few blocks south of the loop. Her work is focused on a theme, the effect of stereotyping on those who are stereotyped. The work she showed is centered on African-Americans, and it was very striking for several reasons. First, the themes were easily understood, e.g., black people as entertainers. Second, the backgrounds were taken from African-American quilts, e.g., the symbol for 'this way is north'. Third, the woodcuts were large (1.5X2 m approx) reduction woodcuts on plywood blocks with incredible clarity. Talk about courage. One of her editions was on a bench at Columbia, and I approached it as a precious monument to her courage. Here's the link to her talk:
http://theloop.colum.edu/s/644/newsletter.aspx?sid=644&gid=1&pgid=3119&cid=12043&ecid=12043&ciid=42522&crid=0
I am sure we'll be seeing Katrina Andry's work again.
I hope that the following post is appropriate. It has to do with two print exhibitions in Chicago at the present time.
The first is a huge exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago dealing with posters meant to rally the home front during WWII in Europe. It is centered on the Soviet News Agency, TASS. They needed to make big posters but did not have big presses, being technologically behind at that time. So, they made stencils, as many as 18 of them per poster in order to be painterly. The posters and stencils were done in 4-8 parts for the big ones and the prints were pasted together. They made editions of a few to a few hundred and the AIC got some of them. If one of the measures of art is its impact on the viewer, this is a very successful art. The people in the space are simply glued to these posters. There is even a demo and re-creation of how the stencils were made. I ran into a former colleague from the old soviet union and she was so taken with it that it took her 3 hours to go through, and 2 weeks to recover. There is another 'side show' in the prints and drawings rooms of AIC showing how Goya's work foretold this type of rallying of the home front. I do not know if it will travel, but if it does, all print makers would get a lot from it. There is a big fat catalog, too. There was a New York Times article about this, but seeing it was so much more than the article led me to expect. Here's a link:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS/
There is also a poster search site:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS/Poster-Search
The second was an exhibition and talk by a young printmaker, Katrina Andry, who works in woodcuts. She is an independent printmaker from New Orleans and she just finished a residence at Anchor Graphics, which is a print shop within Columbia College, which is right downtown a few blocks south of the loop. Her work is focused on a theme, the effect of stereotyping on those who are stereotyped. The work she showed is centered on African-Americans, and it was very striking for several reasons. First, the themes were easily understood, e.g., black people as entertainers. Second, the backgrounds were taken from African-American quilts, e.g., the symbol for 'this way is north'. Third, the woodcuts were large (1.5X2 m approx) reduction woodcuts on plywood blocks with incredible clarity. Talk about courage. One of her editions was on a bench at Columbia, and I approached it as a precious monument to her courage. Here's the link to her talk:
http://theloop.colum.edu/s/644/newsletter.aspx?sid=644&gid=1&pgid=3119&cid=12043&ecid=12043&ciid=42522&crid=0
I am sure we'll be seeing Katrina Andry's work again.
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