Today's postings

  1. [Baren 45904] Re: Bate no more! (key sevn)
  2. [Baren 45905] Re: Bate no more! (Barbara Mason)
  3. [Baren 45906] Re: Bate no more! (key sevn)
  4. [Baren 45907] Re: Bate no more! ("Maria Arango Diener")
  5. [Baren 45908] Re: Bate no more! (Mark)
  6. [Baren 45909] Re: Bate no more! (key sevn)
  7. [Baren 45910] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: key sevn
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:40:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45904] Re: Bate no more!
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honestly?
I'm shocked.
very sad news.
I taught almost everything about woodblock here.

if you want a tip from me - try not to "modernize" = destroy everything. If
you know what I mean.

yo Dave.

and:
What the hell is chromoxylographer?!

I hope I'm wrong. good luck.

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Message 2
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:54:13 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45905] Re: Bate no more!
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It is a woodblock printer 
Chromoxylography was a colour woodblock printing process, popular from the mid-19th to the early-20th century, from widkipedia

this will be a better design...you just have to get used to it...
Barbara
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Message 3
From: key sevn
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:14:15 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45906] Re: Bate no more!
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yeah I kno, but you havent quoted the rest of wiki article ;)

>... commonly used to produce illustrations in children's books, serial pulp
>magazines such as mysteries
>and romances, and cover art for
>yellow-back and penny dreadful
>books.

the design hmm... nevermind.
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Message 4
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:29:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45907] Re: Bate no more!
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That word/expression has always, since the beginning, been on the Baren's
website intro page, written by David Bull waay back when:
http://www.barenforum.org/intro.html

We would never think of destroying anything, we love [Baren] so much we've
been making it happen for years.
Those of us who have been running [Baren] behind the scenes all these years
off and on are working too hard. Our infrastructure absolutely has needed to
change for a while to make things easier to maintain. There is simply nobody
left to do things the old way.

One example, it used to take me easily 7 hours to upload an exchange
gallery, now down to about one and a half.
Same? Not really. Better? Who knows, debatable, work still in progress.
Easier to maintain? Oodles!

That's where we're going.

Maria
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Message 5
From: Mark
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:32:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45908] Re: Bate no more!
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Hey Maria,

Do I see a brand new Baren-Suji ?!?! I enjoyed reading the old copies.

1. ... "with bated breath - in a state of suspenseful anticipation.
2. Rarely used alternate definition: Someone's breath after eating sardines (Sorry)

Mark
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Message 6
From: key sevn
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:52:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45909] Re: Bate no more!
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LOL I'v enever seen that opening page ;}
I know chromoxylography very well and it's something totally uncreative -
colourless thing - just opposite to any creative stuff including moku hanga.

so - you just wanted to scary me with this "change"?
well done.
:DDD

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Subject: It's a linocut!
Posted by: Sherrie York

Alrighty, then! Back to work. My technique still feels a bit wobbly after entirely too much time away from the print bench, but just like a long walk after too much sitting every step feels stronger.

I am scheduled to give a demonstration during the "Artists in Action" portion of the Birds in Art opening weekend at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, so I decided I'd tackle a "simple" bird. One that I could have mostly finished before the event so my demonstration would reveal the dramatic finish.

Right.

In theory I did choose a "simple" bird... it's a gull, for heaven's sake. White and gray and black with a yellow bill. But if you've been reading Brush and Baren for any length of time, you know that I have a gift for turning simple into complicated. It's one of my best skills, actually.

Here's how it's gone so far:

The first two colors were done with a mask. Just the bill and a ring around the eye. Easy peasey.


And then a light gray.


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