Today's postings

  1. [Baren 41663] ex 45 ("bobcatpath # 207me.com")
  2. [Baren 41664] Proposed Title for Maria's Geographical Divides print ("Kimberly Roddy")
  3. [Baren 41665] Ex. 45 We're almost there! (Kristine Alder)
  4. [Baren 41666] Re: WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR STUDIO (ArtfulCarol # aol.com)
  5. [Baren 41667] thank you and solar plate ("Maria Arango Diener")
  6. [Baren 41668] solar plate (Barbara Mason)
  7. [Baren 41669] Re: WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR STUDIO ("Gretchen Grove")
  8. [Baren 41670] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: "bobcatpath # 207me.com"
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:46:47 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41663] ex 45
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this is for Kristine Alder --lost your email address:

i printed my block for ex 45 yesterday
still drying today in our UNcharacteristically
humid downeast maine summer

is it 21 prints that should be sent ??

gillyin gatto
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Message 2
From: "Kimberly Roddy"
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:55:59 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41664] Proposed Title for Maria's Geographical Divides print
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"Urban Crowding" or "Wild Streets"... The idea of incorporating man's
interloping into nature, or nature's subsequent adaptation to urban
development. Good luck!

Kim Roddy
Nine Mile Falls, WA
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Message 3
From: Kristine Alder
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:19:39 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41665] Ex. 45 We're almost there!
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Hi Exchange 45 Participants!

I'm here to give you a little reminder that our delivery date is fast approaching. Your prints will need to arrive on or before August 1st. Since that is actually a Sunday, I am extending that date to August 4th, exactly two weeks from today.



I sent a note to you earlier regarding the total number of prints for this exchange. Here is the reminder from my earlier message: [With the number of folks who have dropped out, and their places not being filled, the number has dropped to a total of 21 prints: one for the archive and 20 for participants.]

Don't forget to go online and get your colophon informaion filled in and sent. ;-)



Onward and upward. Happy Printing!

Your exchange coordinator

Kristine






Kristine Alder
Baren Exchange Manager


St. George, UT

Art Educator/Printmaker/Book Artist/Graphic Design


email: alder@pineview.org

imakeprints@hotmail.com

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it." --Michelangelo
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Message 4
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:46:10 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41666] Re: WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR STUDIO
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I couldn't be without my light box. -- for use in seeing what superimposed
shapes or images would look like and moving around shapes. Saves time and
leads to surprises, which you may like
Best to all
Carol L
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Message 5
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:34:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41667] thank you and solar plate
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First, I am overwhelmed! With all the responses to my name-my-print request.
Thank you all, if I haven't thanked you personally I apologize. All the
names are intriguing and some just right down wonderful. Now I have to make
a decision.



Second! And most important, our friendly solar expert Barbara Mason has been
holding out on us!

Where is the announcement? Did I miss it????

Check out her newly published Solarplate Notes
http://www.imcclains.com/catalog/books/SolarplateNotes.html



I bought it, Baba! Mwa!



Maria



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Message 6
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:41:03 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41668] solar plate
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sorry...did not know I was holding out... some of it is on my new website, which
I actually built myself.
I took a class in wordpress...could never have done it alone though
www.barbara-mason.com
Anyone with solarplate questions, feel free to ask away. I have been teaching a
lot... I have been all over the state this year.
Maybe we should get a class going in LV?
We need another marathon printing session in LV....that was a huge amount of
fun. Well, it was also work but Maria introduced me to the Valley of Fire...well
worth the whole trip!
Thanks for the support, as always!
My best
Barbara

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Message 7
From: "Gretchen Grove"
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:22:09 GMT
Subject: [Baren 41669] Re: WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR STUDIO
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I keep parchment paper in my studio. When pulling prints by hand, it makes
a wonderful cover sheet. The baren glides like magic and, because the
parchment paper is semi-transparent, you can get idea of how things are
going underneath. It's normally used for baking so if you want some, look
where they sell baking supplies.

Gretchen Grove

Hawaii

Digest Appendix

Postings made on [Baren] members' blogs
over the past 24 hours ...

Subject: Size matters - continued
Posted by: Dave Bull

While the carving is going on, I'm trying to move forward on getting the paper sizing organized. I dug back into my photo albums from years ago, and found some snapshots taken on a visit to Misawa-san, the man who has done most of our sizing for the past couple of decades.

Here is a series giving an overview of the process. The size is prepared and poured into a metal 'bucket', which has an electric heating element to keep it at the suitable temperature. After dipping his brush, he wipes on the bar to remove excess:

Then makes the stroke across the paper surface:

 


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Subject: Mystique Series - key block done ... colour separation
Posted by: Dave Bull

Although it is now extremely hot here - even down by the river - the work has moved forward, and the key block for the Hasui design is now done:

Just before completion - with the small boats waiting:

And after washing (under the strong light bulb at night, sorry):

The empty zone over at the right is where the cartouche lettering will be carved later, after I get the master copy of the calligraphy back from collector Tauchi-san, who has taken on the chore of doing them for the whole series.

But I can get busy on the colour blocks while waiting for that to arrive. I think we are looking at 12 faces in all (including the key), but I'm not sure how many impressions it will be; there are going to be a number of gradations and overprintings, obviously. Here are the separations, ready to be pasted down (click to enlarge):


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