Baren Digest              Monday, 14 January 2002      Volume 18 : Number 1685


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From: Cucamongie@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:16:26 EST
Subject: [Baren 16680] Baren stuff  


As a post-script to April's post yesterday about our baren-covering, the 
bamboo does shrink and tighten up as it dries and my baren looks pretty good 
now.  I think we could have trimmed a bit more off the sides, that's all, but 
it looks pretty happy and ready to print.

Bea, wish I was closer to the left coast, I'd be happy to help you operate on 
your baren  [:)] 
best wishes
Sarah


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From: "Lee and Barbara Mason" <bemason@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 07:25:27 -0800
Subject: [Baren 16681] wood burning blocks

bobbi,
I went to Tony McGregors site and was amazed at his work.
http://www.tonymcgregorart.com/gallery/prints/prints.html I don't think I am
giving up my asuki or my gouges, but it is sure ineresting work. Just like
anything, it probably takes years of practice and had it's own set of
problems, but certainly something to look at. I don't think it would work
for waterbased printing, as it doesn't look deeply cut (bitten, burned?) but
sure seems to print well with oil based inks. I will file this away as I am
such a process junkie.
Best to all,
Barbara

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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon@mlyon.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:21:25 -0600
Subject: [Baren 16682] Re: Baren Digest V18 #1684 

At 10:01 PM 1/13/2002 +0900, you wrote:

>I bought the
>takenowawa to cover my baren bught have chickened out just thinking about
>it.  I need Sarah to hold it down.  Bea

Oh, You Guys !!  There's no need to be 'chicken' about re-covering your 
baren -- the expensive goodies inside will survive your first attempts aa 
lonf as you will stop using the baren when the takenokawa wears through, 
splits, or the handles tear off...  You can always 'give up' after a dozen 
attempts and have your baren professionally re-covered while you recover 
from your frustration, but the difficulty of recovering your own baren has 
been over-stated and only requires two hands, no feet, no special tools 
other than knife or scissors, water, and I use waxed string (like really 
thick dental floss).  A 'pro' will get eight or more 'folds' on each side 
of the handle (times four equals 32 folds in all).  I usually wind up with 
four (on a spectacular day I make five) folds using my extra-extra-large 
triple-thumbed hands, which probably results in my baren cover wearing out 
prematurely, but during printing the recovered ones seem to me to work just 
as well as the 'professional' jobs.  Go ahead and give it a try or 
three!  No risk.  No reason to 'chicken out'.  You only spend your time and 
the (usually low) cost of the takenokawa.

- -- Mike

Mike Lyon
mailto:mikelyon@mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------

From: Bobbi Chukran <bobbi.chukran@mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:38:47 -0500
Subject: [Baren 16683] Re: wood burning blocks 


>bobbi,
>I went to Tony McGregors site and was amazed at his work.
>http://www.tonymcgregorart.com/gallery/prints/prints.html I don't think I am
>giving up my asuki or my gouges, but it is sure ineresting work. Just like
>anything, it probably takes years of practice and had it's own set of
>problems, but certainly something to look at. I don't think it would work
>for waterbased printing, as it doesn't look deeply cut (bitten, burned?) but
>sure seems to print well with oil based inks. I will file this away as I am
>such a process junkie.


Hi Barbara,

Oh good, you found his site.  Amazing, huh?  I'm going to e-mail him and
see if he'll tell me a little about his process.

I'm stubborn <G>, and will try it with the thickened acrylic paints I
always use for my painting.  I'll experiment to see how deep the lines have
to be.  Also, I don't have a press (yet), so it'll also be interesting to
see if I can get any kind of impression at all by hand printing...

Bobbi C.



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From: FurryPressII@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:44:53 EST
Subject: [Baren 16684] Re: wood burning blocks 

is changing the cover of a barin anything like taking the typin paper off of 
my press????

ROFL, LOL  ETC

JOHN CENTER

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From: "npwilson@pacbell.net" <npwilson@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:28:27 +0000
Subject: [Baren 16685] Paper Making Equipment 

A few days ago there was a post from Richard Royce offering some paper
making equipment for sale. I contacted him off-line. It turns out that he
had never heard of the Baren Forum. I guess someone else must have posted
his advertisement. I thought everyone would enjoy reading the response I got
from him. I hope that he has now joined the mailing list, but I don't know
this for sure. If you're interested in his equipment, you should contact him
directly. He's in Florida. I gave him the web address for Baren, and this
was his response:

From:
RRoyce <atelier17r@netscape.net

Dear Nancy,
Thank you for sending me the material on Baren. WOW! I never knew. My
whole career has been about the woodblock print! I went a little further
than traditional woodcut but that's my story. I could be criticized for
being a maveric. In about 1973 i had gone to a woodcut show. What had
excited me more than anything was the block that was displayed in a
glass case. The sculpural quality of the carving and the inked image on
the surface were georgous and I realized the handwriting of the artist,
the carving, was lost and what was left was printed. Just about then I
was experimenting with paper pulp to make hand sheets of paper. I got
the bright idea that as you press out the water in the pulp it would
become dry enough to accept oil based ink. I knew that as an Intaglio
printer. I started by carivng a woodblock in the traditional way and
inked it up with a roller. Instead of putting rice paper on it and
orinting it with a  Baren, I dumped a bunch of wet paper pulp onto the
woodblock. I then opened my intaglio press so there was no pressure and
laid the blankets on top of the pulp. I then rolled back and forth under
the press tightening the pressure a little each time. What a mess of
water all over my press! What was left when I got the pressure down was
a handmade sheet of paper pressed into the intaglio of the woodblock and
accepting the ink in the proper places on the surface. Every beautiful
nuance of carving showed in the cast paper! Thus was born the cast paper
  woodcut! I went further. Seeing that the cast woodcut had structural
strength as it was thick like cardboard, I got the idea to build shapes
with the wood and cast into the shapes. To make a long story short, I
made the worlds largest woodcut print, 8ft by 8 ft, I made sperical
block prints, and an 8ft by 8ft Icosahedron woodcut cast paper print! I
even made a 7 ft long paper airplane woodcut that actually flew. I had
quite a lot of fun with woodcuts!. I then started casting the woodblocks
blank and then painting the casting as an original painting.

Just thought you might be interested. You can post this if you want.

- --Richard




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From: "Gillyin Gatto" <gillying@Maineline.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:07:25 -0800
Subject: [Baren 16686] horse postcard 

Dear Bareners   as i write in a beautiful blizzard,,my  horse postcards
  are stacked up and rearing to fly to the 52 other participants-

Philip Smith--what is your zip code?-the lists shows extra umbers

  i have quite enjoyed my first  new year post experience
i love receiving a steady stream of them and have made a long narrow folder
to keep them safe    my favorite, so far, is Frank Trueba's  cave horse
both the print and the packaging of the postcard

maybe i am overly literal,  but i want my postrcard to BE a postcard
i.e.-travel through the US MAIL for 21 cents
  Frank used a plastic envelope which seems to have brought the cost up to
34 cents but at least one can SEE the printed postcard

i have  adhered my print to scraps of mat board  with  acrylic matte  medium
and will mail them naked just like that.  Ira Greenberg"s  Trojan Horse,
my 2nd favorite,  came through fine  that way  .....
i have used all acid free materials

 inspiration for my horse comes in part from having seen the Lipizzan
Stallions  at my local fair ground on a rare hot day in Maine last August
bringing my 35 mm camera w/ 80 -400  zoom  lense   i was able to shoot a
wonderful role of film for  reference  files   Lipizzans are trained to leap
up and get all four feet off the ground at once--thus "flying"

HORSE enables shamans to fly through the air and
reach heaven  in shamanic traditions all over the world

i grew up watching Hopalong Cassidy"s stallion  SILVER  and
 reading
Walter Farley's   BLACK STALLION  novels

my flying stallion emerges from all these influences

my technique was also influenced  by   seeing  other bareners work.....

i did a rainbow roll of  blue/yellow/green  with  Van Son oil based inks
 then
printed my birch plywood block  over that   in black
wet on wet
so, depending on how much the yellow ink resists the black,
we have some appaloosas ,some dappled  , some  black--
each is a unique piece in an edition of 53

May you all feel the positive POWER and BALANCE of HORSE in 2002

and by the way-  THANKS   to each barener for being out there
I had no idea when i took the "computer plunge"  that my life
as a woodcut artist would become so enriched by it

Gillyin      Machias Maine USA

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:45:37 -0500
Subject: [Baren 16687] Cards and stuff 

The outpouring of neat, funny cards, the sympathy cards, the cute pins 
and other items have really been wonderful. Rather than put a list of 
thank yours, I will be doing it individually, so do not thingk that I 
have forgotten you.
PS. I am going to start again on my Year of the Horse print. He is just 
getting a slow start.

Jeanne


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From: "Philip Smith" <SmithArt@Pacifier.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:31:11 -0800
Subject: [Baren 16688] Re: horse postcard

Gillyin,
My zip code is 97121.
Good luck, 
Philip

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:42:17 -0800
Subject: [Baren 16689] a message from Marilynn.... 

I think Marilynn unsubscribed first & then wrote this message to all of us. I
think everyone will join me in wishing her & her husband a wonderful stay in
Baja! 

Wanda

Maryilynn writes:

Tomorrow I go back to Portland.  I think I still am getting Baren mail there
on aol.  This is the last day I will have this service running.  We have put
it on a vacation mode as we will be out of the country until around the
first of June.  So I think the best thing for me is to say good bye and
unsubscribe to Baren and than resubscribe upon my return as i will not be
here to get the mail. Have a wonderful rest of the winter a great spring and
make great prints.  Hope to see some of you at Grahams boot camp in June.
Best to you all and thanks so much for enriching my life.  See ya later.
Marilynn

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From: Wanda <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:44:44 -0800
Subject: [Baren 16690] a message from Andrea about recovering..... 

This came to "baren owner" instead of Baren.

Wanda

Andrea wrote:


I have re-covered a few of my barens now and they came out very well.  First I
soaked the bamboo for a good half hour in warm water but what I think
make it a lot easier for me was the tie I used.  Instead of trying to tie it with
string while I was holding it I found a plastic tie at the hardware store.  It is one
that you put the tail through the eye and just pull it through.  One side of the
plastic has little ridges which keep it from loosening so its one pull and it is tight
forever.
 
It is early to mention it but I am teaching a three day woodcut workshop in
Yellowstone Park over Labor Day this fall.  There will be room for twenty and the
location could not be more inspiring.  If anyone is interested I can have the
park send the details.
 
Andrea Rich
darich@prodigy.net

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