Baren Digest               Friday, 4 October 2002       Volume 21 : Number 1983


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From: Printmaker <severn#acay.com.au>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 09:08:21 +1000
Subject: [Baren 19421] Home visit 

Hi all

While we are talking about hanga, I have something to share.
Yesterday I had a visit from hanga printmaker and Print
Australia member, David Stones. What a great day! Meeting
members like this is one of the greatest rewards of being in
a group such as this.

David (who lives in Japan) brought his wife Akiko and his
sister Eileen too, not to mention a removal truck of
furniture - but that's another story, as is the case of the
collapsing chocolate cake!

We drank cups of tea and looked at prints and nattered and
looked at prints and nattered and looked at prints and
nattered. Did I mention we looked at prints? And nattered?

It was informative and instructive for both of us. David
told me about how he carves up to 25 blocks per print.
*pause* Think about that. 25 blocks per print. Must be a
hanga thingy - infinite patience required. 
David's work can be seen on his website
http://www.i-chubu.ne.jp/~stones/index_e.html I showed him the 
Dreams folio and case and selected prints.
We looked at both the baren exchange folios I have. Although
he is one of the founding baren members, David had never
seen any of the folios in the flesh, so these were of
special interest. I learned a lot listening to his critique
of the work. We were agreed that looking at the scans online
is no substitute for holding a print in your hands. He was
interested to see the actual work of many people he has
corresponded with over the last few years.

David was impressed by the ball bearing baren I use, and its
price. Its one of Roslyn Kean's. You can order one  direct
by mailing her at rozkean#bigpond.com. You could buy a small
press with what he paid for his customised traditional
baren, not to mention the re-covering scenario!

We compared wood and silk-cut lino and lino's flexibility. 
http://www.silkcut.com.au/frame.html

and we talked about paper, sizing and papermaking. David,
the paper you were looking at came mail order from Melbourne
Etching supplies. Its not on their online catalogue, I just
looked, but if you write them, they will mail you a
catalogue and samples.  http://www.mes.net.au/

All in all, a most inspirational day, the worst part was
they left me alone with the remains of that chocolate
cake.....

Josephine

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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon#mlyon.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:15:35 -0500
Subject: [Baren 19422] Re: Home visit 

Gee, Josephine...  How nice.  What a great day!  Thanks so much for sharing 
that with all of us...

Mike

At 09:08 AM 10/4/2002 +1000, Josephine wrote:

>While we are talking about hanga, I have something to share.
>Yesterday I had a visit from hanga printmaker and Print
>Australia member, David Stones. What a great day! Meeting
>members like this is one of the greatest rewards of being in
>a group such as this.


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

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From: Julio.Rodriguez#walgreens.com
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:19:38 -0500
Subject: [Baren 19423] Re: Home visit & Kitakata, Munakata 10/03/2002 06:23:42 PM 

Josephine, that's a great story about meeting David and his family. His
work is amazing and I have had the pleasure to
share many emails with him.  I have a handful of baren woodblock prints up
on my living room walls and two are David's and one  is yours.  Now
everytime I sit there I can look at the prints and think about you guys
meeting and having a good time.

Jean...I have never used kitakata, I think is good, probably better than
Rives for hanga....I have used mulberry and different grades of hosho and
the japanese papers are so much better. Rives is just available locally in
large quantity and very economical. I can see shifting to hosho as my
printmaking gets better....not quite there yet.

Ray...thanks for the inspiring story of your visit...it makes me want to
get on a plane and head over to Philly....now where is that website for the
airlines....

thanks...Julio



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From: "Maria Arango" <maria#mariarango.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:48:40 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19424] RE: Home visit 

Josephine wrote:

> While we are talking about hanga, I have something to share.
> Yesterday I had a visit from hanga printmaker and Print
> Australia member, David Stones. What a great day! Meeting
> members like this is one of the greatest rewards of being in
> a group such as this.


Here here!!! Definitely meeting members in the flesh has been the highlight
of these internet groups. I can honestly say I have made many good friends
in Los Angeles and received a couple of visits from folks who just "had" to
see Vegas.
Somehow when you get to share time and soup (and chocolate cake) with other
printmakers you feel like you are not alone in this world after all.

Thanks for sharing that Josephine, we always want to hear about those
experiences. And isn't it curious how small the world really is?

Maria

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Maria Arango
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
maria#mariarango.com
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From: "lmhtwb" <lmhtwb#prodigy.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:28:00 -0700
Subject: [Baren 19425] Multiple Colors on One Block 

Hanga Question of the Day:

If I plan to use different colors in different areas of one plate, is there
any general 'rule' as to how far apart they should be?  (Oh that's a clear
question!)  For example, say I want a light yellow green on a root tip and a
yellow-orange lip on the flower.  Since both areas are small, I'm not
wasting two chunks of wood just for these tiny areas, so I plan on using one
block.  The areas will be about 5-6 inches apart.  Is that far enough?  What
if the areas where only 2 inches apart?  Or 1 inch?  How close can you have
two colors on one block and keep them seperate?  Is it basically a function
of ink brush size?

Linda




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From: Mike Lyon <mikelyon#mlyon.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:47:08 -0500
Subject: [Baren 19426] Re: Multiple Colors on One Block 

At 06:28 PM 10/3/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>How close can you have
>two colors on one block and keep them seperate?  Is it basically a function
>of ink brush size?


Yes, I think that's about the size of it...  There are NO hard and fast 
rules here. If you want to print quickly, you better allow something more 
than an inch (but no need for more than two inches, I don't think) 
otherwise you can use small brushes and be very careful where you put 
them...  I wouldn't like that very much, I don't think...

But traditionally you only print one area/color at a time -- you wouldn't 
print the orange part and the green part in the same pass -- you'd do them 
in two passes of the paper over the block...

- -- Goin' to DeKalb for the weekend...  be back on-line sometime Sunday 
night, I think, so bye-bye for now...

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

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From: Aqua4tis#aol.com
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 01:18:56 EDT
Subject: [Baren 19427] Re: Home visit 

josie
   does roz kean have a web site?  how much are her barens?    i love that 
word   "nattered"   it means "chat"      correct?
georga

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