Today's postings

  1. [Baren 37942] Re: a rightful petition for the Arts (Diane Cutter)
  2. [Baren 37943] Demonstrators at the summit ("Maria Arango")
  3. [Baren 37944] Dave's list of tools (Bette Wappner)
  4. [Baren 37945] Re: Dave's list of tools (Dave Bull)
  5. [Baren 37946] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Diane Cutter
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:30:16 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37942] Re: a rightful petition for the Arts
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Thanks, Benny, for the information and link. I've passed it along to the members of our Guild in Puerto Rico (which is part of the US...).


Diane

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Message 2
From: "Maria Arango"
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:14:50 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37943] Demonstrators at the summit
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Tentative dates for the Baren Summit 2010:
Saturday, February 20, 2010 - ARRIVAL DATE
Sunday-Friday, February 21-26, 2010 - BAREN SUMMIT

In addition to the call for instructors issued yesterday, we will also
welcome demonstrations, long or short by anyone. I had a couple of people
respond to the initial survey with some interesting demonstration proposals.
Could be anything, how to tie a baren, additives for oil-based inks, how to
grind/mix raw pigments, sizing/dampening paper, how to make paste,
registration techniques, cutting techniques, etcetera...

Demonstrators who have an hour's worth of demonstration will receive a
discount on the conference fee. If anyone is interested in giving a short
demo, no matter how short or informal, please let me know at:
Summit2010@barenforum.org
Need subject of demo and approximate length, although the "default" will be
an hour.

For those who are wondering if they will have any time to work on their own,
don't worry. Initial plan is to divide a big room and have part of the art
center open for individual exploration the entire conference.
I'm working on some details, calendar, the budget and web pages and will
submit to the council shortly.

Thanks!
Maria

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Message 3
From: Bette Wappner
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:51:55 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37944] Dave's list of tools
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Dear Dave,

I've been reading up on your Encyclopedia of Woodblock Printmaking
section on Carving Tools and wanted to know if this is still your
current list of tools that you use to date:

As seen at : http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/014_01/014_01.html


Dave notes:

" Here is a complete list of my carving tools:

* Hangito 3mm, 4.5mm, 6mm (a selection sharpened in a variety of
ways as outlined above)
* Marunomi 6mm (deep), 15mm (shallow)
* Soainomi 24 mm
* Aisuki 1mm, 1.5mm, 3mm, 6mm (plus a couple with very fine
points made from sewing machine needles as outlined above)
* Kento-nomi "

Thank you,
Bette.
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Message 4
From: Dave Bull
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:17:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37945] Re: Dave's list of tools
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Bette wrote:
> ... wanted to know if this is still your current list of tools
> that you use to date:
> http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/014_01/014_01.html
>
> * Hangito 3mm, 4.5mm, 6mm
> * Marunomi 6mm (deep), 15mm (shallow)
> * Soainomi 24 mm
> * Aisuki 1mm, 1.5mm, 3mm, 6mm
> * Kento-nomi

Nope. I use fewer these days. For the hangito, I haven't used anything
but the 4.5 in years. So scratch the 3mm and 6mm knives from my active
toolkit. Everything else is identical.

(With one qualification. For the 'River in Winter' print in my current
My Solitudes series, I used a cheapo v-cutter to work on the flowing
water. And I might just use that same tool again later this week, for a
(hopefully) windy sky in the current print - 'Seacoast in Winter'.)

Dave

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Subject: Lessedra Update
Posted by: Amie Roman

For anyone out there who is curious about Lessedra, an annual international miniature print exhibition, I have some answers.

When I first heard about Lessedra, I thought I'd do some investigation. I found that a number of printmakers that I know of and whose work I respect had entered in the past, so I thought that it might be a good opportunity. One of the reasons I had some concern was the method of payment for non-US international participants is with Western Union, and that is typically a red flag over the internet. After discovering how many artists had participated, and done so over multiple years, I figured that for the US$50 (at the time) how much of a scam could that be? Really, there aren't that many printmakers in the world :) You'd have to work awfully hard for a pretty small return, so I decided to enter (Yes, I'm skeptical by nature, but especially after being touched by scammers a few times - see my scam roll on the right side-bar).

When I was accepted for the 2007 exhibition, I was extremely excited: this is an international exhibition and I got in!! Late in 2007, my prints were returned and I received the fantastic catalogue for the exhibition. As I looked through the catalogue, I was astonished at the number of printmakers represented, and I started to become somewhat skeptical about the actualities of the . . .
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