Today's postings

  1. [Baren 38053] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009) ("nancy osadchuk")
  2. [Baren 38054] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009) (Diana Moll)
  3. [Baren 38055] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009) (Arthur Bacon)
  4. [Baren 38056] Re: Stamp collectors - Philatelists ("Terry Peart")
  5. [Baren 38057] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009) ("DePry Clan")
  6. [Baren 38058] A new video on the street..... (Graham Scholes)
  7. [Baren 38059] Sanskrit? (Lana Lambert)
  8. [Baren 38060] Re: Sanskrit? (eli griggs)
  9. [Baren 38061] Re: Sanskrit? (David Harrison)
  10. [Baren 38062] Re: Sanskrit? (Shireen Holman)
  11. [Baren 38063] Third graders (Rosposfe # aol.com)
  12. [Baren 38064] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: "nancy osadchuk"
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:11:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38053] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009)
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Marilyn, maybe the paper is not sized? Just a possiblilty.

Nancy O
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Message 2
From: Diana Moll
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:32:27 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38054] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009)
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Sounds like a case of Printer's goblins, they come in and change the
print while it dries, they make you do impressions upside down and
hide your favorite tools. But seriously.... what KIND of paper?
-diana
PS don't burn the block
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Message 3
From: Arthur Bacon
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:24:49 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38055] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009)
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...as a photographer, two things come to mind....Ansel used to put his
wet prints in the microwave to dry quickly because there is always a
slight shift from the wet print to a dry one...this way, in three
minutes you can see.....and secondly, do printmakers make what we call
test strips? Especially test strips across the significant areas of
the print? I would imagine you could just roll off a small section,or
sections, thereby getting the information you need without expending a
whole sheet of expensive hand made Japanese paper...
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Message 4
From: "Terry Peart"
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:14:52 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38056] Re: Stamp collectors - Philatelists
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Jan in Australia,
Thank you! I'm eagerly anticipating receiving your OX card!
I thoroughly enjoy (and keep) the stamps that come with the prints. Thank
you, again, for thinking of us collectors out here!

Terry
West Seattle


>
> Baren Stamp collectors - Philatelists
>
> Today I posted all my Baren Postcards for the Year of the Ox to everyone
> on the list.... today is Wednesday 4th February in Western Australia!
>
>I could get a whole pre-stamped envelope from Australia Post with all the
>information about the Year of the Ox, plus the pre-stamped section and the
>calligraphic Ox, so invested in one for each of you, so if you are a stamp
>collector, I advise you to open them very carefully to preserve them for
>ever and ever > Jan
>
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Message 5
From: "DePry Clan"
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:19:13 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38057] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V46 #4696 (Feb 3, 2009)
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I do proofs on drawing paper, 50lb or newsprint which gives me information
about the marks I made, composition, a heads up on the amount of ink
necessary for a decent proof, etc. I think test strips sometimes emboss the
block and reak havoc, often destroying the piece, arrgh! They also in my
mind don't give the whole picture. Anyways take it with a grain of pigment.
DD
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Message 6
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:56:02 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38058] A new video on the street.....
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I have just learned that Nik Semenoff has produced a DVD of "New
Directions in Printmaking: The Technical Side" which contains the
following:

-Toner in All Media: General information on how toner can be used in
print media.
-Waterless Lithography: Explains how to use common caulking silicone
as the ink rejection surface on the plate.
-Toner in Intaglio: How toner is used with photo intaglio plates and
using electro-etching for safer etching.
-Copper sulfate Mordant: Using inexpensive copper sulfate and common
salt to etch metal plates. It can be converted to cupric chloride for
etching copper plates.
-Screen Printing: Safer starch based ink one can make inexpensively.
-Construction of Equipment: Many examples of constructing equipment
used to make the processes easier to apply.
-Trouble Shooting: Helpful hints to overcome common problems
encountered by printers.
-Health and Safety: Some concerns for todays' printmakers.
-MSDS Information: Data needed by printmakers to make intelligent
decision on materials in their studios.
-Print Gallery: A collection of prints using the various processes
explored in the DVD.
-A Lithographers Notebook: A PDF version of an earlier publication
dealing with traditional lithography.

Price for the DVD is $49.99 in Canadian funds, plus $9.00 for shipping.
To order your copy of the DVD, contact:

Nik Semenoff
102 Wilson Crescent
Saskatoon, SK S7J 2L5
Canada

e-mail contact: nik.semenoff@usask.ca
Or order on the Internet by using PayPal:
http://www.ndiprintmaking.ca/?page_id=60

We are fortunate to have such an innovator in Canada!
Graham
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Message 7
From: Lana Lambert
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:38:26 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38059] Sanskrit?
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I need to make a call for assistance to any of you Bareners hailing from the regions of the world that write in Sanskrit! I want to carve a name in one of my blocks but can't find a Sanskrit translation. Anybody got any advice?

-Lana
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Message 8
From: eli griggs
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:48:34 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38060] Re: Sanskrit?
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Message 9
From: David Harrison
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:33:29 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38061] Re: Sanskrit?
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Lana Lambert wrote:
> I need to make a call for assistance to any of you Bareners hailing from
> the regions of the world that write in Sanskrit! I want to carve a name in
> one of my blocks but can't find a Sanskrit translation. Anybody got any
> advice?
>
> -Lana


Could well be wrong, I think Sanskrit is generally used day-to-day only in a
religious context these days -- a little like church Latin. Also there is more
than one script, which might complicate things slightly, but I think that
Devanagari is the commonest.

I'd suggest approaching a local Hindu community or trying an online community
that promotes the language. A quick scoot through Wikipedia threw up these links:

http://sanskritvoice.ning.com/
http://www.samskritabharati.org/sb/

People on the sites seem pretty devoted to the language -- perhaps someone
there would be willing to lend a hand.

All the best,

Dave H
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Message 10
From: Shireen Holman
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:07:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38062] Re: Sanskrit?
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What is it you are trying to carve? If you are looking for
transliteration, maybe I could help.
Shireen
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Message 11
From: Rosposfe # aol.com
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:28:54 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38063] Third graders
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I am looking for a group project for my son's 3rd-grade class (his
teacher asked for a volunteer).
I thought of doing a kind of collage of all the kids drawings and converting
that somehow to one block vs. doing some kind of multiblock print.
I envisioned having all 21 kids draw on a smallish 2 X 2 blocks and putting
them all together in a kind of puzzle print after I quickly carve them? While I
would do the carving, we could print as a group with each child pushing the
baren around for their copy.
Any good ideas or experiences from you teachers in the group?
The ultimate goal is to produce a print that can then be "auctioned" off at
the school art fair to raise funds for the art program.
Thanks, Andrew.

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Subject: [Seacoast in Winter - 7] : Impressions 4 ~ 5
Posted by: Dave Bull

Continued from [Seacoast in Winter - 6] | Starting point of the thread is [Seacoast in Winter]

Step #4 - Here's the next tone on the sky. This is the way it is going to go ... a gradual build-up over five layers. The blocks are all gouged with a v-cutter to put a ragged edge on each boundary area, in a horizontal pattern.

At this stage, the printed area is large, so the missing places are 'cutouts'. As we progress, the printed area will get smaller, and the positive/negative of each block will be reversed ...

Step #5 - The second tone on the water is the same light blue tint as the first. Bits and pieces are cut out here and there, in a pattern that will gradually expand over the next four water blocks (six in all).


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Subject: The Other Side of the Journey
Posted by: Annie B

I won't lie to you - one of the things I'm trying to accomplish with these Pilgrim prints is to economize my blocks by using them more than once. In this print, I plan to take the little clump of Pilgrims from my last print and put them in a new setting to represent where they ended up at the other end of their Mayflower boat ride.

Bradford writes of their arrival in the New World:
Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation, they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less town to repair to, to seek for succour... And for the season it was winter.

Trees

Later, Bradford describes the group that sets out to explore the first Cape Cod landing site and he says that they "fell into such thickets as were ready to tear their clothes and armor in pieces." So I've been carving the outline of some dense winter trees for the group of Pilgrims to wander through.

Notice in the center of this photo there's a very pronounced void in the second layer of this piece of shina plywood. This latest batch of shina from McClain's has had a lot of irregularities. I wonder if they have a new supplier. It's definitely tricky to work . . .
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Subject: Camera Crippled!
Posted by: Pistoles Press

This whole not having a camera around to document what I'm doing is driving me nuts! Poor little camera wants so bad to take a picture but alas his little mechanism is broken so he just clicks and clicks photos of black. My mom did what all moms do and is insisting that I use HER camera in its place... except for the fact that she has no idea where the USB cable ran off too. She just pops the memory card into her printer slot. We tried that but for some reason it won't register in my husbands printer and I just don't feel like playing network tag every time I want to blog. Luckily, seedy New Jersey is there for me and a hot little USB cable is on it's way to me from Ebay. Anyways, I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to update you guys on the Limulus block because it's turning out nicely but alas we must await the arrival of the cable.

Although my camera is out of commission, my scanner is not! I have a total of 22 drawings to complete for stage two of the Limulus print (whew!) and I am learning things about trilobites that I didn't think I would even need to but soak up I shall! (I have since learned that my rendering of . . .
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