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Message 1
From: Tim Auman
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:47:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38901] Re: selling art on etsy
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hmmmmm.......I wonder what a discussion about computer/digital 'product' on etsy would look like?

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Message 2
From: Daniel Dew
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:49:27 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38902] Re: selling art on etsy
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Let's not go there, please?


Daniel L. Dew
CapStar Corporation
14824 N. Florida Ave., Suite B
Tampa, FL 33613

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Message 3
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:58:24 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38903] Re: selling art on etsy
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Not related to relief prints ... not appropriate for this forum ...

Cheers ..... Charles

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Message 4
From: Charles Morgan
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:11:11 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38904] Japanese wood block prints
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I was strolling through the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria yesterday, and there was a nice exhibit of Japanese art from the Edo period. In the exhibit were quite a few wood block prints by a variety of artists, which you would expect to see. Many of them were landscapes or general scenes, rather than portraits of individuals. Almost all of these landscapes had a peculiarity which I just noticed. The peculiarity to which I refer is a very dark strip for the sky at the very top of the page ... looks like Prussian blue. In most of them there was a bokashi leading quickly to very, very light sky, usually just the tone of the paper. But once I noticed it, it hit me that they all had this dark, dark blue stripe, about one inch wide, at the top of the page, just like many of us used to color for the sky when we were children. Now, obviously the sky does not look like that. Anybody have any idea how that became the style? I am always amazed at how "realistic"
those Japanese wood block prints are, and yet that is such a stylized sky ... it seems out of keeping with the realism of the rest of the print. Any one care to comment?

Cheers .... Charles

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Message 5
From: "Mike Lyon"
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:19:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38905] RE: Japanese wood block prints
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Red skies were also popular mid-19th C. I think the publishers must have
been keenly sensitive to what was popular and would sell well - these were
and did. Maybe Hokusai and Hiroshige were most prolific at the bokashi sky
thing?



Mike Lyon
Kansas City, MO
http://mlyon.com

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Message 6
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 19:37:40 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38906] Re: Cabrillo and MECA woodcut classes/personal note
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April,

I'm so sorry you lost your mom. She was a very talented woman. I loved her
show you put together. Her work was beautiful and I loved the tiles.

She had many friends and I'm sure she will be missed.

Ellen

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Message 7
From: "Eva Pietzcker"
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:40:59 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38907] hon baren
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Dear Bareners.

Yesterday I got the two hon-barens I ordered last year by Mr. Hidehiko Gotou over the baren mall. For five years I was using two "sosaku" baren and was always content. But this is a VERY different thing. These barens feel not like something I am holding but as a body part.

If someone of you might be playing with the thought of buying such a baren...

Greetings--

Eva


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Eva Pietzcker

druckstelle - Werkstatt für Druckgraphik
Manteuffelstr. 103
D - 10997 Berlin

fon +49 - (0)30 - 40 53 95 10
fax +49 - (0)30 - 40 53 95 18

www.pietzcker.de
www.druckstelle.info

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Message 8
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:48:11 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38908] Re: selling art on etsy
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Tim Auman wrote:
> hmmmmm.......I wonder what a discussion about computer/digital
> 'product' on etsy would look like?
>
Daniel Dew wrote:
> Let's not go there, please?
>

Ah come on Dan, where ’s the fun in that!!!!!!

Trust you are well
Graham

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Message 9
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:48:20 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38909] Re: Japanese wood block prints
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Charles Morgan wrote:

> I was strolling through the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
> yesterday, and there was a nice exhibit of Japanese art from the Edo
> period. which I just noticed. The peculiarity to which I refer is a
> very dark strip for the sky at the very top of the page ... looks
> like Prussian blue.

It is Prussian blue.....
It was a fad.... the thing to do and for a period of time was in
fashion....
You can liken it to present day happenings... Historical, Wildlife
images both lasting 15 years+ and now the high key imagery that
requires one to use sun glasses to enjoy. (

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Message 10
From: eli griggs
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:59:41 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38910] Re: selling art on etsy
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OK then, to start the ball rolling on this one I'll ask:

Has anyone here used, or knows of someone who does, an ink jet printer with 'archival ink' to either print the black-lines of a 'woodcut', to a hand-coloured print or 'print' the colours before printing a key-block?

If so, what was the experience like?

Eli

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Message 11
From: David Bull
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 04:35:58 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38911] Re: hon baren
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Eva wrote:
> For five years I was using two "sosaku" baren and was always
> content. But this
> is a VERY different thing. These barens feel not like something I am
> holding but
> as a body part.

Congratulations on the new tools! I remember the feeling of getting my
own first 'hon baren' years ago. They'll be lifetime partners for you!

Dave

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Message 12
From: Linden Langdon
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 07:39:43 GMT
Subject: [Baren 38912] ox cards
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I'm in full agreement with Jan - such a wonderful surprise every time a new ox arrives. I did a little jillarooing work in Queensland when I was quite young and one of the days I had to herd the brahman bulls into the dip from the yard - such powerful animals! I remember climbing the yard fence very fast - one of the prerequisites for the job! Some of my favourite memories are out on the horse in the huge open paddocks...
Being my first 'year of' exchange I can see that I have signed on for a 12 year program!
Linden
 
 
Thank you to Sharri, Douglas and Josef for my recent Oxen cards. With
my not doing so many exchanges now because of my professional work load
I enjoy getting surprised by my New Year Cards arriving. Loved your
elongated Ox Josef..... it reminded me of our bulls coming through the
yard gates when I was very small and seeing these monsters lumbering
around the fences..... all of ours were trained for the judging show
ring so not so scary when you got to know them. Being a farm girl love
these cards.

Thank you all,

Jan
Perth
Western Australia

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