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Message 1
From: Jan Telfer
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:22:20 +0800
Subject: [Baren 26454] Japan Trips
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Dear Mike and April,
Thank you both for sharing your photos of your respective Japanese
excursions with us:

> http://mlyon.com/2004_10_18_Japan/index.htm

> Photos at www.aprilvollmer.com/japan

Many of these cities I visited and brought back memories of my "paper
town", "pottery town" and "knife town", the beautiful country side and
the bustling cities, the tour guides with their distinctive red flags
and the school kids with their oversized socks and shoes with bent down
heels, the mixture of commercial and residential and industry on each
town block, the people "asleep" on the trains with their books open
that never dropped onto the floor and the wonderful hospitality
everywhere we went.

Thank you for sharing your exhibition photos with us.....What a
wonderful experience for you both. Thank you.

I too will be back there one day!

We (a few Western Australian printmakers) are planning a paper
excursion in the next year or so. Emi Ninoseki who is also a hanga
woodblock printer close to me has offered to come as our
interpreter.... she leaves next week to visit her family (and buy some
printmaking supplies for me!!)

Thank you Mike and April.

Jan

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Message 2
From: L Cass
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:24:07 -0500
Subject: [Baren 26455] Re: Nagasawa, Kyoto and Tokyo
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April Vollmer -

I've just spent a good part of this morning following your wonderful trip
for which I thank you! Needless to say, I admire your work very much and
wish I had an opportunity to attend one of your workshops.
My 'woodcutting' is on a very small and unpretentious scale and I must at
some point try moku hanga but I have a feeling I'd have to give up painting
to give it my all.
Thanks again for your exciting and inspiring journal and work!
Louise Cass

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Message 3
From: Robin Morris
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:37:12 -0800
Subject: [Baren 26456] engraving, ink...prints...
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Hi all,

Just got my first ink from graphic chemical...I'll post an engraving
and a woodblock I printed last night. It was so cool to see a decent
looking print ...I've been making some of my own ink so far with dyes,
water and alchohol and paste...not working too well...
learning one step at a time...for these single-impression things this
ink is great...I want to learn about water-based though...can anyone
recommend a good reference to mixing etc, Japanese style?
the shina scraps I experimented on showed me that an engraving tint
will make a nice lin but only within a few degrees of the grain...I'll
post a pic tomorrow of the one success there...a pyramid under the
moon. Caused me to wonder if anyone ever uses a tint tool to do
"with-grain" cuts in their block prints?

See a small engraving based on a Rockwell Kent illustration...
http://nspirationz.com/lightning tree,jpg

And the tint-tool worked shina block...
http://nspirationz.com/pyramid.jpg


Robin Morris

PS~

OT-The waves are really crashing here so we set up a webcam...if you're
lucky you may see some poor sod get soaked...refreshes about every 5
seconds...http://nspirationz.com/webcam.html

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Message 4
From: Robin Morris
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:21:49 -0800
Subject: [Baren 26457] Fwd: engraving, ink...prints...
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Sorry for the extra post...correction to this URL:

See a small engraving based on a Rockwell Kent illustration...
a href="http://nspirationz.com/lightningtree.jpg">http://nspirationz.com/lightningtree.jpg

Robin Morris

PS~

OT-The waves are really crashing here so we set up a webcam...if
you're lucky you may see some poor sod get soaked...refreshes about
every 5 seconds...http://nspirationz.com/webcam.html

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