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Message 1
From: Myron Turner
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:17:20 -0600
Subject: [Baren 24595] Re: Photoshop and other questions
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Mary wrote:
>Myron, do you like in a humid area? I live in the high
>desert, 8 months of the year it's day. Maybe the extremes stresses the roller.
>Mary

No--not particularly--and especially dry in winter when the heat is going
full blast.
Someone suggested there were two types of gelatin rollers. Mine, I know,
are gelatin. As I said, they are quite old --they come from an era when
letterpress printing was still going strong. But I have always kept them
coated with vaseline. Perhaps that makes a difference. I think you are
probably better off with composition rollers, the kind you'd get from
Graphic Chemical. The gel rollers, even if they don't melt, seem to loose
their shape--at least the longer ones do--I have ones that are 10 and
twelve inches long. They sort of cave in at the center:

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So the ink isn't applied where it's low. The composition rollers hold
their shape. I have one that is 10 inches long that I use all the time and
have been using successfully for almost 25 years. But they can be pretty
expensive.

Myron

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Message 2
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:41:33 EST
Subject: [Baren 24596] Re: Photoshop and other questions
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I have a graphic chem brayer I got in 1968 that I am still using. The rubber
is still in great condition but I am wearing out the steel axle. Even steel
wears out. And I fixed that with a couple extra washers. I got an English
gel. Roller (pretty and mucho $$$) used it a few times for special effects
and then did not use it again was too soft for wood engravings and only used it
for certain effects where a hard brayer would not work. Went looking for it
to use and all that was left was a pool of goop on the shelf. I was once in a
used printing eq. dealers roller room, and he had 100's of melting gel rollers.
Looked like a movie.

john center

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Message 3
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:35:23 -0800
Subject: [Baren 24597] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V26 #2584 (Mar 15, 2004)
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Just a note about getting wood. Where I live in the pacific northwest we
take wood for granted, we live with trees. Here in the Baja wood is very
scarce, it is a prize. Last season we scarfed up wood pallettes someone had
left by our dumpster, someone had gotten new furniture. These pirzed pieces
of wood made the shelving for my worktable in our garage, the legs are
welded steel. If I want a piece of wood to carve i might get lucky at the
lumber yard, hahahaha. I bring what I can with me and use it with care.
That might mean taking a piece apart and gluing the foreground to a new
piece for a new print. It also means learning to work with the reduction
technique. Recycling can be important, I applaud Harry for a good way to
recycle his wood. So this idea to me is not just about saving time it is
about good use of our resources. Hey maybe i can learn to cave cactus!!!!
In reality that is a possibility as we have found picture frames made from
dried cactus wood. It looks and feels a lot like wood, but it has holes
about every inch, interesting prospect for a carving, if you can get it flat
enough.
Maybe the sun is making me a bit nutty today, guess I need my morniing swim.
Happy carving to all!
Marilynn

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Message 4
From: Jan Telfer
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:59:15 +0800
Subject: [Baren 24598] Re: Baren Digest (old) V26 #2583
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Dear David,

Thank you for sharing this site of Year Postcards.

> Are you ready for more than 300 monkey cards? Matsumura-san has
> finally
> got his annual new year card display on-line, and Sadako has prepared
> English index pages for them.
>
> Head over to:
> http://www.pippimama.com/art/woodlike/gallery_top_en.html
>
Indeed noone was more surprised than me to find my Year of the Sheep
postcard on the 5th page!! Do these people have connections to you?
Because you and Hiroshi Tomihari would have been the only ones in Japan
to have received one of my postcards. I am flattered!!

Cheers,
Jan

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Message 5
From: "marilynn smih"
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:01:09 -0800
Subject: [Baren 24599] next exchange
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I know I know 2 mails in one day. I was reading our exchange list to see if
when the next one is. I want to be in it and i see that it is a themed
exchange. so what theme are we going to do, the sign up starts April 1. I
beleive today is March 16, not too long before it begins.
Marilynn

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Message 6
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:29:33 -0600
Subject: [Baren 24600] Re: Baren maker Gosho-san's woodblock print class exhibition
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Thanks Dave for this most interesting link...wonderful images...

For those that may not have gone lurking around this site and stopped at
the Machida prints...check out these other very interesting links at the
bottom of the page:

Baren making:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage07.html

Baren covers and steel making ?
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage01.html

Ex Libris prints:
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage04.html
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage09.html

The Japan Print Association & gallery:
http://www.hangakyoukai.com/
http://www.hangakyoukai.com/report.html
http://www.hangakyoukai.com/gallery71.html

Gosho's print gallery ?
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage14.html
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage15.htm

thanks....Julio Rodriguez (Skokie, Illinois)


"Machida Hanga Group 10th Anniversary Collection. The names and titles are
all in
Japanese, so won't display in your browser, but the images should be
visible with no problem I think.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/gosho/baren/newpage17.htm

Their teacher is Kikuo Gosho, the baren maker."

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Message 7
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:27:11 EST
Subject: [Baren 24601] exchange 19
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the last of the exchange international mail is in the post. and my
exchange 20 is in the mail as well. the postal clerk loved me lol

john center

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Message 8
From: "MPereira"
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:36:46 -0300
Subject: [Baren 24602] Re: exchange 19
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Please put exchange 19 on the gallery
as soon as possible, I can't wait until
I see what I have lost.
M

>the last of the exchange international mail is in the post...
>john center

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Message 9
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:47:44 -0600
Subject: [Baren 24603] Re: exchange 19
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Murillo writes:
>Please put exchange 19 on the gallery as soon as possible, I can't wait
>until I see what I have lost. M"


Hey Murillo...for sure you'll lose your "virtual virginity" (if there is
such a thing !) when you look at the prints for
#19.........lotta hanky-panky going on in the prints from this
exchange....

Maria...please translate hanky-panky for Murillo, thanks !

Julio

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Message 10
From: "MPereira"
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:07:10 -0300
Subject: [Baren 24604] Re: exchange 19
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Yes, Maria, please do it, quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Io.

>Maria...please translate hanky-panky for Murillo, thanks !
>Julio

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Message 11
From: Jan Telfer
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:48:21 +0800
Subject: [Baren 24605] Re: Harry's Block
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Harry,

Harry French wrote:
>> I have just sawn up a used woodblock, saved the best bit and
>> re-jigged it
>> as part of another woodblock and printed it as another edition. Is
>> this
>> ethical?
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/h.french1/ETHICSONE.htm
>
> Ethical? Why not? Keep going with this, I vote! You'll have to
> develop
> an entire suite of images built from the same type-setting image
> blocks --
> the plowed field bare; the plowed field sprouting; the plowed field
> harvesting; the house, the town, in winter, in summer, the day sky, the
> night sky; the stormy sky; the birds; the rain -- mix and match the
> cut-out
> blocks to print an entire series of mini-seasons/weathers/moods --
> Intriguing!
>
> - -- Mike

I agree with Mike to all of the above and the others who answered your
question.... You could put it all under the one heading "The View from
Here"!!

By the way that Subject wasn't my "original" we did a Gocco print using
that title last year...it was fun and so many avenues!! Ha Ha... pun
not intended!

Jan

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