Today's postings

  1. [Baren 44574] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges. ("Oscar Bearinger")
  2. [Baren 44575] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges. (Barbara Mason)
  3. [Baren 44576] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges. (key sevn)
  4. [Baren 44577] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges. (Barbara Mason)
  5. [Baren 44578] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges. (Graham Scholes)
  6. [Baren 44579] Olek's exhibit of Ex 47 & 49 (Kristine Alder)
  7. [Baren 44580] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: "Oscar Bearinger"
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:41:10 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44574] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges.
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Hey Olek
What part of the world do you live in? Where is this exhibition going to be held, ie where is Olsztyn?
Thanks, and good luck with this project!

Oscar
(Ontario, Canada)
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Message 2
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:49:26 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44575] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges.
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This is one of the nicest things about the Baren Forum...suddenly out of the blue, with no work on your part you find your work shown on the other side of the world. Thanks for doing this for all of us!
My best
Barbara

>Hi. I want to organize small exhibition of baren exchanges #49 + #47
>
>Can I expose your prints for the people?
>I have gallery reserved at 16.XII.2011. it's name is Rynek Gallery and it's located in centre of old town Olsztyn.
>They are also going to release a folder. Do you want any info about baren forum/ logo, website or something?
>I'm going to write some words about moku hanga and idea of print exchanges.
>
>just wanted to show prints to the people and spread info about moku hanga techniques.
>
>please write me if anyone doesn't want his print to be exhibited, or if you think it's bad idea.
>
>regards.
>Olek Woniak.
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Message 3
From: key sevn
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:03:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44576] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges.
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Message 4
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:34:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44577] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges.
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Thanks for the map....since I was young and studied all the countries and where they were, things have radically changed.
Half of the countries have names I am not sure how to say and some are now very small and a strange shape.
The world as I knew it is different to say the least. I am 66 so learned geography about 50 years ago...what has happened in my lifetime is just startling. A man on the moon, a phone in my pocket, buying food with a credit card, paying over $4 a gallon for gas. When I got married in 1970 we paid 29 cents a gallon for gas at our local cheap station and then 3 years later it was $1.50. We have traveled to Europe and the UK, we have been to Mexico and to Canada. We think nothing of flying in an airplane and recently bought a winter mobile home 1500 miles away in the Arizona, the American Southwest. My life is so much different that I ever thought it would be, the one constant thing that has not changed much is woodblock printmaking! We need these things that are the same to ground us, the world is moving pretty fast now.
My best to all,
Barbara
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Message 5
From: Graham Scholes
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:36:40 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44578] Re: exhibition of baren xchanges.
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Indeed things have changed, Barbara....

Have a look at this site. It seems things are not going to stop changing.
Some interesting insights into where the computer and internet is going.

http://tinyurl.com/7szb3p4

CREATE-Cut-Print
Graham
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Message 6
From: Kristine Alder
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:47:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 44579] Olek's exhibit of Ex 47 & 49
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I think this sounds great! I doubt there is anyone from either exchange who would have any objections. Kristine


Kristine Alder
Baren Exchange Manager
St. George, UT
Art Educator/Printmaker/Book ArtistCo-President UAEA
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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Subject: Mystique Series #17 : printing step 3
Posted by: Dave Bull

Just one impression today, although it was actually 'two', as it was printed twice on the same block:

The background on this one is going to act as the 'key' block - everything else to come will now (hopefully) fit into its proper place in the open areas.

It wasn't an easy impression - the problem is to find a balance between pressing the paper very firmly, to get a good deep black, and yet not press it so hard that it smears over the edges of the lines. We'll see in the upcoming steps just how critical this is on this particular design. It's not at all clear at this point that it will be completely successful.


This item is taken from the blog Woodblock RoundTable.
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Subject: Carving Can Be So Slow
Posted by: Annie B

Gradually making progress. Here's the pyramid sketched onto the board:

PyramidSketch

And here's a closeup of the carving in progress:

PyramidCarving
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Subject: Baby Grand is done!
Posted by: Maria

Wow I've never worked so hard on such a small print!
I experimented with waterbased inks, transparent bases, layering and just in general had a GRAND time making something so big, so small.

Here are all nine blocks of the Baby Grand printed, each adds a little something until the final result looks almost like a tiny painting:
1. Key block
2. Underpainting of blue
3. Forest green
4. Underpainting of tanish
5. Violet
6. Umber/sienna
7. Deep purple
8. Umber
9. Reduce and reprint key on foreground

Ta-daaaa!
Baby Grand, color woodcut
2.5 x 3.5 inches


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Subject: Sundial
Posted by: Linda

Sundial
It doesn't get much better than being able to watch both sunrise and sunset over water in the same state.  With over 11,000 inland lakes that would be Michigan!  You know, the Great Lakes State?
This tree serves as a "sundial" on the shore of Indian Lake, the 4th largest inland lake in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

This item is taken from the blog Linda Beeman - Printmaker.
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Subject: November 11
Posted by: Linda

November 11
This print is based on a small sepia photograph of my grandfather. This was the last photo of him before the train came that would take him off to World War I. 
I asked him about his service when he was 91 because I had never heard him talk about it. He was trained as a mechanic but ended up as an ambulance driver and the company bugler.  He said that while he was on the ship on the way to Europe, the armistice was signed.  When they got back home, he related they were given a ticket home and a "kick in the pants".  That was it.  And they got on with their life.
World War I ? known at the time as ?The Great War? - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that  reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of ?the war to end all wars.? History of Veterans Day
According to grandpa, his company was not needed where the "action" was . . .
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