Baren Digest             Friday, 13 September 2002     Volume 20 : Number 1956


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From: "Gillyin Gatto" <gillying#Maineline.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:00:25 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19145] ex's 14 & 14A  ,etc 

Hello Bareners- 

 i cant seem to get to the BAREN site at all this morning
to fill in my collophon for 14 &14A-
so I will post to the whole list:

I have just posted my prints to Darrell for #14 and to Marilynn for #14A
they went out into yesterday's mail stream..........

i like the idea of sending any overflow people's prints to the Swap Shop
and once again vote to call them OVERFLOW instead of refuse"

when i do an exchange    and the overflow exchange
 i like to send a DIFFERENT print to each one-
 i use the exchanges as a way to challenge myself to do new color work
- -as i have been VERY black and white and oily for my whole life.

  when i DID do color
,i always carved a separate block for each color- as
 reduction was a real mystery  to me
 until the discovery of Maria's reduction demonstration
 in the Baren encyclopedia
- -i had read lots of other reduction lessons
 but none of them rang a bell til hers - thanks Maria!

 so this time,for these exchanges
 i challenged myself to do a reduction print

the block is a round, half inch thick, piece of Acaia wood
- -i found a bunch of these at yard sales(-folks do decoupage' on 'em i think)

i am not very familiar with ACACIA  ,
looking it up-- seems to be in the southwest-
 a thorny, scrubby, yellow blossoming tree
with rounded thorns-like its other name-CATCLAW-
 that hikers hate to pass thru-
only gets big further south?

it reminds me of mahogany veneers i have carved
 tho harder, and much harder to cut across the grain
  but prints very crisply and has those little white flecks
of open  grain   i love to use  in fur and feathers etc

the first two reductions on my " Nesting Kestrel" went very well
 but on  the third
  i got bogged down in color decisions
- -as usual!
 black and white is so simple and immediate !
I decided to hand color the last  bit  for expediency's sake....
and get the packets mailed out
 so as to arrive two weeks ahead...
or i would still be trying different colors for those two weeks!!

i learned alot of little things that a person with my style of learning
 can only really see by doing it wrong

 such as -inadvertently carving off one of my registration marks
 on the 2nd cutting- making it much harder to line up-

i was just thinking about where i wanted color
and forgot-- that i was using one of those little gouge marks to register on
zippp and it was gone  didnt realize it was gone til printing

i probably wont do that again

I used "kento " marks that are in the design itself
finding one on either side of the block-which in this case is round-
and using my suicide method  to register without having to build a jig

i sent" Secret Nest"- the 2nd state
 (which now does not exist anymore) to exchange 14a
printed in good old black and white
  and as usual   i  really like  it better than the color version
just my opinion-  perhaps someone else will like the color one more

on editions, hand pulled vs a press
i regularly pull editions of fifty or so by hand
i have done more but would rather keep it  there
i did 57of my  reduction

and then printed 30 of the 2nd state in black and white
also printed a few in a light brown for myself
 to hand color later
i keep the lower numbers to sell
and send the rest off to
share with you folks........

thanks for being out there
 all you who do the work to make this baren happen

i would  say about Maria's  comments on internet forums--
that  finding the Baren was  a god/goddess- send
 for me also

connecting  an isolated artist in a rural area
 to a whole world of other woodcut artists all over the world
i used to belong to a coop too  but at 40 miles away
 limited sales, lots of wasted time
  it becomes a chore to get there

this finger tip reach to getting ones work around the world in shows
and ability to converse with others, ask questions, be challenged-
is unrivaled, especially   for hermits at heart

have a cut/print day

Gillyin    in  machias maine usa





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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon#mlyon.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:51:02 -0500
Subject: [Baren 19146] Hey -- I'm 'featured' artist ! 

Dear <everybody I know>...

This week I am a FEATURED ARTIST on Cindy (Cid) Hayes's semi-famous web 
site at http://www.cidtalk.com/

Please take a look at her very kind and enthusiastic review of my 
artwork.  She appears to have bent over backward to make you feel very 
proud that we are acquainted    :-)

And...  If you click on the <MORE> button at the bottom of her review,  (or 
here: http://www.cidtalk.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260 ) 
you can read my VOLUMINOUS answers to her interview questions.  Cid 
included MANY links into my site and a bunch of good images of my work.

Let me know whether you enjoy it!

Best,

Mike


Mike Lyon
mailto:mikelyon#mlyon.com
http://www.mlyon.com 

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From: "Gillyin Gatto" <gillying#Maineline.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:28:56 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19147] ACACIA wood update 

hi 
 more on the acacia wood block I used for ex 14 & 14A :

I looked back again at the other  round blocks i have
 and a little sticker on the back says,
 "Acacia wood-  handcrafted in Thailand"
 so perhaps
i have some tropical treewood product that
 someone is marketing here for crafters?

Sharen Linder referred me to Google  for a neat pic of an ACACIA tree
but i have yet to be able to get to it, thank you Sharen

do we have a barener in Thailand who knows this tree? --  Gillyin

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From: Artsmadis#aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:29:19 EDT
Subject: [Baren 19148] Re: ACACIA wood update 

In a message dated 9/12/02 5:20:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gillying#Maineline.net writes:

<<  more on the acacia wood block I used for ex 14 & 14A :
 do we have a barener in Thailand who knows this tree? -- >>

Not in Thailand but I know the acacia trees in North Africa and some other 
parts of the world are the trees that produce gum arabic.

Darrell

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From: ArtfulCarol#aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:37:23 EDT
Subject: [Baren 19149] Fwd: (no subject) 


Just to let you know about the process of trying to find a suitable home for 
the Firemens Portfolio.
Carol


Hi Folks,
I am sending this to you  because I do not want to clog up Baren when I dont 
have  results...

I  started the process of trying to find a good museum to donate our Firemens 
print portfolio  to, as I asked some if you if that would be  an OK idea.   
Number one contact was the NY Public Library, 42 St.,  where I have been 
studying original prints in their print room  collection for several years. I 
wanted advice on an appropriate placement. They recognize me there and the 
head of the Department, Roberta Wadell,  came out to greet me and say she was 
 sorry  because she was too busy to look at the portfolio that day.

I was able to ask for advice and show it to another print specialist there . 
I told her all about the project.  She was very interested  in hearing  about 
Baren and how our portfolio  came about.  Also, she was very touched by the 
prints and asked to borrow them to show and discuss with  Roberta Wadell.   
So I left them there;  got a receipt... That is step one.

(While there I viewed originals by Dow, Hyde, Nordfeldt, Hopkins, and 
Lindenmuth. What an experience!)

The above was 2 days ago on 9/10. That day  I also met a fireman who came to 
New York for the 9/11 Memorials at Ground Zero.  I thought it was all right 
to offer him one of the prints of his own choosing. That was the risky part, 
because I didnt get permission. It turned out that I didn't have to explain 
the way woodblock works because he was a fine arts major in college.

He chose your  screen print, "A  Different Breed",  Frank.  I hope I didnt do 
wrong!! I have another print of that, since John gave me 3 of each when he 
came here.
 
 So , one of our prints will be in a Chicago firehouse:  Eng 117  T l14   4 
District HQ
                            
This  is the third John Walsh to have a Firemens Print.

 Should this be on the Baren e-mail

Wishes and Prayers
Carol

Will keep you posted...



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From: Jack Reisland <reislandj001#hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:44:43 -1000
Subject: [Baren 19150] Re: ACACIA wood update 

Hi Gillyin,

"acacia" is a whole family of trees, from all over the world. Here in
Hawaii the prized Koa tree is an acaia, then there is Mimosa, Gum Arabic
tree, and Pearl Acacia in Africa, and Golden Wattle and Weeping Myala in
Australia, Mexican Mimosa in Mexico, Cat Claw in the Southwest US and
Mexico, Monkeypod, etc., just to name a few around the world. Then, just
to complicate things, there a few lumber trees known commercially as
"Acacia" that are not really in the acacia family.

Jack Reisland


Gillyin Gatto wrote:


> hi
>  more on the acacia wood block I used for ex 14 & 14A :
>
> I looked back again at the other  round blocks i have
>  and a little sticker on the back says,
>  "Acacia wood-  handcrafted in Thailand"
>  so perhaps
> i have some tropical treewood product that
>  someone is marketing here for crafters?
>
> Sharen Linder referred me to Google  for a neat pic of an ACACIA tree
> but i have yet to be able to get to it, thank you Sharen
>
> do we have a barener in Thailand who knows this tree? --  Gillyin



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From: Aqua4tis#aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:25:09 EDT
Subject: [Baren 19151] firemans print show 

hi everyone
   just a note to say that the showing of the prints was very well received 
and got lots of very favorable comments    some people were even moved to 
tears    the setting was lovely   out in front of city hall   flags 
everywhere   a beautiful firetruck parked out front   there was a memorial 
service in the morning and later there was a speech by the mayor  alonf with 
a choir and an orchestra       this was a day long affair   even school 
children were there   it started at 7am and went til 7:pm   our prints were 
on display the wholetime   hopefully i will get a copy of the press release 
to share with all of you    
     my son took pictures of everything  but i dont know how to put them up 
for you to see          any help out there?????
   the next show will be on the 18th   at the embassy suites in covina     
the chamber of commerce is having a luncheon to honor the fireman and 
policeman of the year   i guess the firechief of los angeles county will be 
there along with other dignitaries as well   barbara mason sent me a box of 
baren brochures   which are gorgeous by the way   so ill have them out with 
the prints
   after that i may look for more venues        or maybe ill plan on this 
being a sort of annual thing??
thats all for now
georga

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