Today's postings

  1. [Baren 31008] Festival Logo, Part Woodcut, Part Photoshop (GWohlken)
  2. [Baren 31009] Re: coming out of the dark ("Tyrus Clutter")
  3. [Baren 31010] Carving video ... and contest! (Dave Bull)
  4. [Baren 31011] Re: Festival Logo, Part Woodcut, Part Photoshop (Bobbi Chukran)
  5. [Baren 31012] Question about using acrylic paints (Bobbi Chukran)
  6. [Baren 31013] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 4
From: GWohlken
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:16:01 -0400
Subject: [Baren 31008] Festival Logo, Part Woodcut, Part Photoshop
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Thought Bareners might like to see this finished design. This logo
is being seen everywhere around this area these days. I designed it
using both woodcut and Photoshop techniques. The raccoon is the
woodcut part (but with the original woodcut scanned in and resized),
and the outer circle with lettering and musical notes is the part of
the design made exclusively with Photoshop. This logo has been made
as small as an inch and large enough to go on the tee shirts the
festival will be selling. It will be on a large banner at the
festival, and has been on websites and in newspapers. It's been a
lot of work, and fun, too.

This link is on Burton's highly controversial blog written by a
local, outspoken gun store owner, but he gets as many as 20,000 hits
a day, so we are hoping it will help bring people out to the festival.

http://www.burtonblog.com/view.cfm?post=597

~Gayle
Burton, Ohio
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Message 1
From: "Tyrus Clutter"
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:47:07 -0400
Subject: [Baren 31009] Re: coming out of the dark
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Welcome Preston.

I know one of your colleagues, Rob McColl. I had had some contact with him
over the last year and then accidentally ran into him at MFA in Boston
during the CAA conference in February. The relevance for Baren is that we
were actually looking at an exhibition that consisted of a huge number of
prints from the MFA collection.

Tyrus

Tyrus Clutter
Director, Christians in the Visual Arts
255 Grapevine Road
Wenham, MA 01984

978-867-4128: Office
978-867-4125: Fax
www.civa.org

Christians in the Visual Arts is the premier visual arts organization
connecting the artist, the Church, and the culture.
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Message 2
From: Dave Bull
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 00:05:40 +0900
Subject: [Baren 31010] Carving video ... and contest!
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Just put up another page in the ongoing series that shows the progress
of this year's scroll project.
http://woodblock.com/scroll/progress/06_06.html

That page is a sequence of stills taken from my webcam, and at the
bottom of the sequence is a link to a separate page containing a video
of the complete three-hour carving session - compressed into one minute
50 seconds!

But the reason I'm posting this now is to let you know that during the
session I sort of screwed up at one point, and after making the video,
I realized that I hadn't deleted the 'error'. So, just to have some
fun, I'm making it into a contest ... find Dave's screwup!

I'll send one of my postcard-size prints to each of the first five
people who can find it!

Dave
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Message 3
From: Bobbi Chukran
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:10:03 -0500
Subject: [Baren 31011] Re: Festival Logo, Part Woodcut, Part Photoshop
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>This link is on Burton's highly controversial blog written by a
>local, outspoken gun store owner, but he gets as many as 20,000 hits
>a day, so we are hoping it will help bring people out to the
>festival.
>
>http://www.burtonblog.com/view.cfm?post=597
>

That's pretty neat, Gayle! How did they contact you to do the
artwork for them?

Bobbi C.
http://www.bobbichukran.com
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Message 4
From: Bobbi Chukran
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:13:31 -0500
Subject: [Baren 31012] Question about using acrylic paints
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Hi all,

For several years now, in order to avoid printing inks, I've tried
using acrylic paints with my block prints. I've had a little
success, depending on what kind of paper I used. The main problem is
that the paints are not sticky enough, I think.

I'm wondering, does anyone else use acrylics to print with? And if
so, do you add anything to them....maybe a medium, thickener,
retarder, etc.??

I like using the paints because when they're dry, I can paint over
them, do washes, etc. unlike the water-based inks.

Using oil based inks is out of the question for me because of allergies.

Thanks for any tips!

bobbi c .
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Message 5
From: Blog Manager
Date: 9 Jun 2006 03:55:06 -0000
Subject: [Baren 31013] 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. (21 sites checked, five minutes before midnight Eastern time)

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Site Name: David Bull, Woodblock Printmaker

Item: Scroll Project Update: Carving begins (including video, and contest for viewers!)
http://woodblock.com/scroll/progress/06_06.html

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Site Name: m.Lee Fine Art

Author: m.Lee
Item: Running Low on Prints
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com/2006/06/running-low-on-prints.html

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Site Name: The Itinerant Artist

Author: Diane Cutter
Item:
http://theitinerantartist.blogspot.com/2006/06/playing-with-medieval-drawing.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:
http://barenforum.org/contact_baren.php

For reference, sites/blogs currently being checked are:
http://barenforum.org/blog
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http://woodblockdreams.blogspot.com
http://studiodiary.blogspot.com
http://larimerart.blogspot.com
http://artflights.blogspot.com
http://perfect-press.blogspot.com
http://printmakersmaterials.blogspot.com
http://mlyon.com/blog
http://room535.blogspot.com
http://mleeprints.blogspot.com
http://snowgum.blogspot.com
http://onthisblock.blogspot.com
http://pressing-issues.blogspot.com
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
http://theitinerantartist.blogspot.com
http://PLawing-Printmaker.blogspot.com
http://readdevine.blogspot.com
http://mokuhankan.com/conversations
http://mokuhankan.com
http://belindadelpesco.blogspot.com