Baren Digest Wednesday, 24 October 2001 Volume 17 : Number 1596 [Baren 16023] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1594 From: Brian Lockyear Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:18:41 -0700 FurryPressII@aol.com writes: > Most deckles are fake on machine made paper anyway. I cut um off because it makes > registration better with out them. You are a printer not a paper maker and > western paper for printmaking such as arches or rives is machine made anyway. This is a fair point. I can agree with the contrast to what I'd said because my intent in hanging onto deckles is to emphasize that I am making a hanga print with Japanese paper. It is hand-printed and it is hand-made paper. The registration marks are also relatively small in this case... a square corner and an inch-long straight cut near the other end of the long edge. Speaking of printing, my contribution to exchange #11 is almost done! Whew! Thought I was in serious trouble due to technical difficulties there for a while. Also bought a new house... moving studio spaces... Too much at once. Will be happy to get it in the mail! - Brian - Brian Lockyear Portland, Oregon, USA ------------------------------ From: "Carole Baker" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:02:24 -0800 Subject: [Baren 16024] Thanks Dear Graham, Thanks so much for the speedy response. You cleared up some things I've been wondering about for a long time. I will forever be agonizing over the decision to change my prints mid-edition, I think. So many possibilities. I guess it kind of comes down to not really having confidence in my original intent, though. Or maybe the boredom of doing the same thing over and over... which basically comes down to the same thing: not having confidence that that original intent is good enough to do so many times. So maybe in time I will find the confidence in my original conception and intent to become "a real printmaker". Or. perhaps my delight with all the possibilities can give me the confidence to make my own definition of printmaking. I do want to be honest in what I am selling and appreciate you expertise and generosity to share. I met you when I was at Metchosin attending Naboru's class,(! in 95, I think.) You came by one afternoon and showed us some of your prints. I was impressed. Carole --------------------- Subject: [Baren 16026] Re: Thanks From: Graham Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:02:01 -0700 I think that was in 1996 and I had said to Noboru I would be dropping over to say hi during his class there. He ask me to bring some stuff so I did. Gees I had forgotten about that... Do you have a web site so I can see some of the work you are doing. If you ever need help I am just an e-mail away. Take Care. Graham --------------------------- Subject: [Baren 16027] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1595 From: "marilynn" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:41:34 -0700 The papers for my deckle edge question vary up to close to 1/2 inch. Yes this is probably machine made paper, stonehenge, but the deckles do indeed tell the public that it is a nice paper and hand pulled, so except for the case where the paper was cut crooked and I will have to trim it to get the image straight I will leave the edges as long as it does not vary more than 1/2 inch. I guess variances of this sort also say that it was hand done and not machine done. We have to make room for the human touch in work or we look too much like a machine I should think. I am thinking these decisions are up to the printmaker, just as to how much we allow our prints to vary and what we each consider acceptable in our series as things will vary just a bit because they are hand pulled. Marilynn ------------------------------ Subject: [Baren 16028] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1595 From: "marilynn" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:41:14 -0700 Guaranteed to have these prints in on time. But one more question??? Yikes!! I was not taught some technical stuff so well. I was taught to lie my prints between newsprint to let them dry and weight them. so far it has been fine but this new ink does not like this. I checked the stack today thinking some might be ready for a final trimming and such. Well the newsprint stuck to the ink and came off when I pulled out the print. I was lucky only a few did this and also I was able to lift it off, not loosing any prints, thank heavens. But first of all newsprint is far from acid free and second, HELP! I am using stonehenge white paper and oil based ink. I am running the prints wet on the press. I am not blotting them as it has been my experience that little comes off when I blot wet prints. I am spooning a bit as all the ink does not come off with the press, but that seems to be fine. What do the rest of you do with wet oil based prints to keep them flat and dry them? Marilynn ---------------------- Subject: [Baren 16029] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1595 From: "Tyrus Clutter" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:02:37 -0600 Place them in a pad of newsprint paper. This will keep the paper fairly flat as it dries and also keeps the ink off of other prints (the newsprint soaks out some of the oil too, making the prints dry a little quicker). You are supposed to switch the the sheets to a new place in the pad every day until the ink is dry. TyRuS -------------------------------- Subject: [Baren 16030] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1595 From: FurryPressII@aol.com Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:35:29 EDT because stonehinge has a lite of sizeing it takes a bit longer to dry also affects its ablity to print dampened. It is better for drawing than printing. It is a machine paper so not sure why the fake deckles are so important? I have made paper so i know why a deckle exists on hand made paper. A paper like stonehinge is made in a roll and then cut into sheets. when i saw a printer i know make a fake deckle i LOL john center ------------------- Subject: [Baren 16031] Re: Baren Digest V17 #1595 From: "bemason" Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:35:38 -0700 Marilynn, This is how I do it, but I put blotters under the print, clean newsprint on top and then another blotter. I do not weight them, just change the blotters after the first 15 - 20 minutes. Most of the water will be out of the prints by this time. Then use new blotters and new newsprint. My prints are always flat and never stick. I know other people weight their prints, but I never seem to need to as they are always flat. The secret is changing the blotters after the first short while. Barbara . I was taught to lie > my prints between newsprint to let them dry and weight them. so far it has > been fine but this new ink does not like this. I checked the stack today > thinking some might be ready for a final trimming and such. Well the > newsprint stuck to the ink and came off when I pulled out the print ------------------------------- End of Baren Digest V17 #1596 *****************************