Today's postings

  1. [Baren 43023] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V54 #5568 (Mar 28, 2011) -- New Member Question Re Lino (Carole Dwinell)
  2. [Baren 43024] Re: Our benefit guidelines and Art in Japan (John and Michelle Morrell)
  3. [Baren 43025] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V54 #5568 (Mar 28, 2011) -- New Member Question Re Lino (Barbara Mason)
  4. [Baren 43026] Paper discount of 50% (Barbara Mason)
  5. [Baren 43027] RE: Paper discount of 50% (andrea # starkeyart.com)
  6. [Baren 43028] Re: reply from the Japanese Gardens (Ayesha Vemuri)
  7. [Baren 43029] Prints for Japan Exchange (Le Green)
  8. [Baren 43030] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V54 #5568 (Mar 28, 2011) -- Japan Relief Project (Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com)
  9. [Baren 43031] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Carole Dwinell
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:14:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43023] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V54 #5568 (Mar 28, 2011) -- New Member Question Re Lino
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Hi, all.
I am new to this list. Still trying to get a feel for it but want to
contribute to the relief for Japanese tsunami victims as my late
husband lived as a youngster in Sendai, was even in a Japanese Boy
Scout Troop.

As a newbie to the list, I'm not sure how this works. I do have an
appropriate piece (Great Blue Heron in Flight) in which the edition is
not yet pulled. (5 color-though the fifth color is still being
carved). The image is approximately 8" x 5-3/4. It is, however, carved
from linoleum, not wood. Can send Barbara a digital image of art proof
w/four colors if you would want to see it first. Would you still want
it, even it is a lino print? Let me know.

Carole Dwinell
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Message 2
From: John and Michelle Morrell
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:42:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43024] Re: Our benefit guidelines and Art in Japan
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Barbara,

Please add my name to the list. Mine will be smaller than oban, and definitely not moku hanga!

--Michelle
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Message 3
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:52:29 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43025] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V54 #5568 (Mar 28, 2011) -- New Member Question Re Lino
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Carole,
Yes, a lino cut is fine...we will not beat you up for doing one! When you reply
to the list, be sure to delete the digest or it copies to all in your post.
The paper size is also up to you, I originally wanted them all large but have
given that up as folks are doing their own thing...you know how we artists are.
I hope your husband did not lose friends in Sendai...this is such a horrible
tragedy for all involved.
My best to you
Barbara
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Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:01:54 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43026] Paper discount of 50%
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Baren Artists,

I have a little woodblock get together with Alex, the gal who owns McClains. We
have been meeting once a week to gab and carve and print for about a year. She
wants to help with the Tsunami relief project and I suggested paper...

So the deal is, you can order up to 20 sheets of paper from McClains at 50%
discount, just mention Tsunami and she will give you the discount.
You don't have to actually use it for this project if you already have paper,
but this is a great opportunity to get paper you have coveted that is pretty
expensive. Alex wants to support us in our endeavor so be sure to thank
her....she might also like a print so if you want to send her one, mark it for
her and include it in your package of prints and I will see she gets it for the
McClains print collection.

See the paper here at www.imcclains.com

Everyone wants to help with this project, it is very heart warming.
My best to all
Barbara
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Message 5
From: andrea # starkeyart.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:34:53 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43027] RE: Paper discount of 50%
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It is indeed heart warming to see the number of printmakers who would like to contribute. Thank you, Barbara, for getting this paper discount for us from McClains, as well as your efforts coordinating the project.Andrea Starkeywww.starkeyart.comwww.starkeyart.blogspot.com
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Message 6
From: Ayesha Vemuri
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:13:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43028] Re: reply from the Japanese Gardens
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Hi Barbara,
I would also be very interested in participating in the Japan relief
print project. Could you include my name, please?
Thank you very much,
Ayesha Vemuri
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Message 7
From: Le Green
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:18:38 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43029] Prints for Japan Exchange
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Prints for Japan Exchange: sign me up too.
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Message 8
From: Julio.Rodriguez # walgreens.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:22:24 GMT
Subject: [Baren 43030] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V54 #5568 (Mar 28, 2011) -- Japan Relief Project
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Put me down for the exchange also, I be back home tomorrow, let me know
what you need for the web page...

Julio

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Subject: Senshafuda Project - production update
Posted by: Dave Bull

A quick progress update: carver Sato-san dropped over here a few days ago (riding his scooter all the way out from town!), and we got him all set up. He and I went over the image, deciding how to approach the carving, and he went back home with some blank blocks in his carry-bags, along with the hanshita printout.

I talked to him on the phone last night, and he has already completed one of the prints, and is cutting away steadily on the next. He's a bit concerned about whether his work will be up to my 'standards', but I'm sure the job will be OK (if only because he is being closely supervised by the experienced carver Asaka-san).

I've arranged with the two of them to give me a call on a convenient day later this week, and I'll be going over there to shoot some photos and video of him working on this project. I'll be doing the same with Tetsui-san the printer too, as I think this sort of documentation will be of great interest to onlookers (and potential collectors, of course!).

More later ... for now, I can leave a quick link to the Mokuhankan catalogue page where this print set will be available for ordering later. (Plan is to open up for orders once we get the first proof copies off the blocks for scanning).


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Subject: Relief printmakers like to collaborate
Posted by: Elizabeth Busey

One of my favorite things about printmaking is that printmakers like to share. Printmaking allows people to collaborate in ways that other media do not.  My first experience with collaborative printmaking involved friends celebrating my 40th birthday and a new press.  I printed all of the blocks in one print, and each family received one.
Elizabeth Busey, Turning Forty: A Collaboration, Linoleum Relief Print
I found that people who might not consider themselves artistic were willing to participate when their work was presented as part of a whole print.  So I decided to try it again with members of my church.  The intent of the project was to create banners to hang in our sanctuary during the Lenten  season.

People were asked to meditate on the ideas of hunger and abundance, and  to choose either a square or rectangular block for their image.  At two workshops, we talked about using tools and creating textures as people carved their images.  We printed the blocks by hand on Japanese Hosho paper so people could take their image home.

I took all of the blocks to my studio to create the banners.  We had 27 blocks to use, so I create two templates for the two halves of the paper.  Since the squares and rectangles were a standard size, the blocks could be interchanged, and I created three different banner layouts.
Cardboard templates kept all the block in place when the print was run through the etching press.
Mixing the inks was a challenging process.  I use very transparent inks in my own work, but this process required much more saturated colors.  Inks had to look right on the Hosho paper, but be dark enough to be seen in the bright windows.  The amount of light coming through the windows was astounding, even on a cloudy day.  I used a great deal of ink getting the color right. 


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