Today's postings
- [Baren 29315] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V33 #3261 (Nov 16, 2005) ("robert")
- [Baren 29316] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V33 #3261 (Nov 16, 2005) (Mike Lyon)
- [Baren 29317] Re: cleaning brushes (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
- [Baren 29318] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
Message 1
From: "robert"
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:17:09 +0000
Subject: [Baren 29315] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V33 #3261 (Nov 16, 2005)
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Hello to you all!
I have a few questions for the Hanga printers out there?
A) I purchased a nice Maru Bake brush for applying my pigments, do I clean this brush in between each color? and with what? just rinse with water like I was with my others?
B) Do you think it is easier to buy more than one and sort of use them for like colors? (may get expensive)
C) does my butt look fat in these pants?
Thanks and cheers!
Rob
Message 2
From: Mike Lyon
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:33:01 -0600
Subject: [Baren 29316] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V33 #3261 (Nov 16, 2005)
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At 10:17 AM 11/22/2005, Rob wrote:
>I have a few questions for the Hanga printers out there?
>A) I purchased a nice Maru Bake brush for applying my pigments, do I
>clean this brush in between each color? and with what? just rinse
>with water like I was with my others?
If you use water-borne pigments and starch-paste, you can clean your
brushes between each color by rinsing in water and giving a hard
shake or three between rinses to help clean out the last of the
pigment. Depending on where you got your brushes you may have to
prepare them prior to use -- traditionally this is done by rubbing
them half the day against dried sharkskin in order to wear the hairs
to fine points and split the ends so even finer and more hairs --
this will help you quickly brush out the pigment evenly. The most
expensive brushes from Baren Mall seem to arrive ready-to-use --
brushes from McClain's will have to be prepared. Lots of people take
shortcuts with brush preparation and seem to make good prints:
burning the hairs (do outside -- smokey/stinky!) speeds the
preparation, tacking sharkskin to disk and spinning disk with table
saw or hand drill has been tried with some success. Pressing brushes
against belt or disk sander, too -- these last definitely make the
hairs pointy, but don't necessarily split them. There are
cheese-grater-like 'artificial shark skins' available, but they seem
to me not to really split the hairs so much as tear and break them
roughly -- maybe this is the point?
>B) Do you think it is easier to buy more than one and sort of use
>them for like colors? (may get expensive)
Much easier to keep a brush at least for each main color (red,
yellow, blue, black) you use -- much less rinsing req'd between color
shades than colors.
When drying, do NOT set brushes upside down (hairs up, wood down), as
the wood handles will check much faster when left saturated like that
-- dry with hair down and wood up or add a screw-eye to one end of
the handle and hang vertically.
>C) does my butt look fat in these pants?
Send image for 'expert' opinion, but since it occurred to you to ask,
the answer likely is 'yes'. :) TMI, TMI!
Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com
>I have a few questions for the Hanga printers out there?
>A) I purchased a nice Maru Bake brush for applying my pigments, do I
>clean this brush in between each color? and with what? just rinse
>with water like I was with my others?
If you use water-borne pigments and starch-paste, you can clean your
brushes between each color by rinsing in water and giving a hard
shake or three between rinses to help clean out the last of the
pigment. Depending on where you got your brushes you may have to
prepare them prior to use -- traditionally this is done by rubbing
them half the day against dried sharkskin in order to wear the hairs
to fine points and split the ends so even finer and more hairs --
this will help you quickly brush out the pigment evenly. The most
expensive brushes from Baren Mall seem to arrive ready-to-use --
brushes from McClain's will have to be prepared. Lots of people take
shortcuts with brush preparation and seem to make good prints:
burning the hairs (do outside -- smokey/stinky!) speeds the
preparation, tacking sharkskin to disk and spinning disk with table
saw or hand drill has been tried with some success. Pressing brushes
against belt or disk sander, too -- these last definitely make the
hairs pointy, but don't necessarily split them. There are
cheese-grater-like 'artificial shark skins' available, but they seem
to me not to really split the hairs so much as tear and break them
roughly -- maybe this is the point?
>B) Do you think it is easier to buy more than one and sort of use
>them for like colors? (may get expensive)
Much easier to keep a brush at least for each main color (red,
yellow, blue, black) you use -- much less rinsing req'd between color
shades than colors.
When drying, do NOT set brushes upside down (hairs up, wood down), as
the wood handles will check much faster when left saturated like that
-- dry with hair down and wood up or add a screw-eye to one end of
the handle and hang vertically.
>C) does my butt look fat in these pants?
Send image for 'expert' opinion, but since it occurred to you to ask,
the answer likely is 'yes'. :) TMI, TMI!
Mike Lyon
Kansas City, Missouri
http://mlyon.com
Message 3
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:05:50 -0600
Subject: [Baren 29317] Re: cleaning brushes
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From Rob:
>I have a few questions for the Hanga printers out there?
>A) I purchased a nice Maru Bake brush for applying my pigments, do I
clean this brush in between each color? and with >what? just rinse with
water like I was with my others?"
Yes..light cleaning....but sometimes if the next color is just a shade
different you can skip the cleaning...for example...light red to a dark
red or something like that...
>B) Do you think it is easier to buy more than one and sort of use them
for like colors? (may get expensive)
IMO is a good idea to have a separate brush just for the black...sumi is
almost impossible to wash off completely..I have five now (reds, greens,
blues & browns & a slightly smaller one for black) but for a long time I
got away with
three....one for black, one for blues & greens and another for reds,
oranges & yellows.
>C) does my butt look fat in these pants?
IMO like anything else related to moku-hanga technique too much or too
little water in the process can have an undesirable effect on the final
image ;-)
thanks....Julio Rodriguez
>I have a few questions for the Hanga printers out there?
>A) I purchased a nice Maru Bake brush for applying my pigments, do I
clean this brush in between each color? and with >what? just rinse with
water like I was with my others?"
Yes..light cleaning....but sometimes if the next color is just a shade
different you can skip the cleaning...for example...light red to a dark
red or something like that...
>B) Do you think it is easier to buy more than one and sort of use them
for like colors? (may get expensive)
IMO is a good idea to have a separate brush just for the black...sumi is
almost impossible to wash off completely..I have five now (reds, greens,
blues & browns & a slightly smaller one for black) but for a long time I
got away with
three....one for black, one for blues & greens and another for reds,
oranges & yellows.
>C) does my butt look fat in these pants?
IMO like anything else related to moku-hanga technique too much or too
little water in the process can have an undesirable effect on the final
image ;-)
thanks....Julio Rodriguez
Message 4
From: Blog Manager
Date: 23 Nov 2005 04:55:05 -0000
Subject: [Baren 29318] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification
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This is an automatic update message being sent to [Baren] by the forum blog software.
The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (10 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)
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Site Name: BarenForum Group Weblog
Author: Harry French
Item: The Oriel window : Gainsborough Old Hall : Lincolnshire : UK
http://barenforum.org/blog/archives/2005/11/the_oriel_windo.html
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Site Name: Woodblock Dreams
Author: Annie B
Item: One of Two Blocks
http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com/2005/11/one-of-two-blocks.html
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Site Name: Mike Lyon's Moku Hanga
Author: Mike Lyon
Item: Break is over, Leggie's table complete...
http://mlyon.com/blog/2005/11/break-is-over-leggies-table-complete.html
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The following new entries were found on the listed printmaker's websites during the past 24 hours. (10 sites checked, just before midnight Eastern time)
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Site Name: BarenForum Group Weblog
Author: Harry French
Item: The Oriel window : Gainsborough Old Hall : Lincolnshire : UK
http://barenforum.org/blog/archives/2005/11/the_oriel_windo.html
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Site Name: Woodblock Dreams
Author: Annie B
Item: One of Two Blocks
http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com/2005/11/one-of-two-blocks.html
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Site Name: Mike Lyon's Moku Hanga
Author: Mike Lyon
Item: Break is over, Leggie's table complete...
http://mlyon.com/blog/2005/11/break-is-over-leggies-table-complete.html
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[Baren] members: if you have a printmaking blog (or a website with a published ATOM feed), and wish it to be included in this daily checklist, please write to the Baren Blog Manager at:
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