Today's postings

  1. [Baren 45166] please let me introduce myself (Mary Brodbeck)
  2. [Baren 45167] Re: Flat File Print Show in Maine (Mary Brodbeck)
  3. [Baren 45168] Re: please let me introduce myself (key sevn)
  4. [Baren 45169] re humorous dragons (Louise Cass)
  5. [Baren 45170] Re: please let me introduce myself ("Ellen Shipley")
  6. [Baren 45171] Pasting a large sheet of paper on the woodblock (Tibi Chelcea)
  7. [Baren 45172] Re: Pasting a large sheet of paper on the woodblock (Barbara Mason)
  8. [Baren 45173] Re: Pasting a large sheet of paper on the woodblock (key sevn)
  9. [Baren 45174] Baren Member blogs: Update Notification (Blog Manager)
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Message 1
From: Mary Brodbeck
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:23:06 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45166] please let me introduce myself
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Hello Baren Forum Fellows,

This introduction is long over due - I'm still getting comfortable with social media. I'm such a dinosaur! Anyway, I am a woodblock printmaker working in the Japanese tradition in Kalamazoo Michigan (USA). I have been an on and off "lurker" of baren forum for a few years and it's finally time to say hello and get involved.

You can find a little bit more about me from my website, listed below -- a new one is in the making and is targeted to be up and running by June.

Happy printing everyone!

Mary Brodbeck

www.marybrodbeck.com
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Message 2
From: Mary Brodbeck
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:44:12 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45167] Re: Flat File Print Show in Maine
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So happy for all of your successes, Annie. Keep up the good work - you are an inspiration to me. You write beautifully too, by the way.

Mary

www.marybrodbeck.com
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Message 3
From: key sevn
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:53:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45168] Re: please let me introduce myself
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hello.
awesome prints.
very milky vibe.
regards.

Olek Wozniak.

Re Mary Brodbeck's intro

> Hello Baren Forum Fellows...
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Message 4
From: Louise Cass
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:28:33 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45169] re humorous dragons
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Little Ralphie Jr brightened my day with a lovely
junior-dragon dance! thank you Sarah Hauser!
Louise C


www.LCassArt.com
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Message 5
From: "Ellen Shipley"
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:22:31 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45170] Re: please let me introduce myself
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Hi Mary,

Your work is wonderful. I love your colors and wonderful nature images. I
look forward to seeing more of your work.

Ellen Shipley
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Message 6
From: Tibi Chelcea
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:44:19 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45171] Pasting a large sheet of paper on the woodblock
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I've tried to paste a large sheet of paper with the drawing that needs to
be carved on a wood block, and it was a bit of a disaster. The paper is
about 16x23", and the wood is birch plywood. I've used acrylic base diluted
with water as glue. The result was that I ended up with a lot of air
bubbles trapped between the paper and the wood; when I was trying to peel
the paper to reveal the design for easier carving, the paper above these
bubbles would get ripped off. I've tried to push the bubbles out, but did
not have much luck because the paper is so large and the paper get wrinkly
when pasted, which means that other bubbles were forming when pushing. The
paper is regular office paper -- printed the design at Kinko's.

In the future, I'd like to go even larger than this, but pasting the paper
seems to be a problem. How can I paste large sheets of paper to a woodblock
without having any of these accidents? Use different glue? Different paper?

Do I need to peel the paper to reveal the design before carving the block,
or could I rub something like vegetable oil into the paper to make it
translucent and thus easier to see?

Thanks,
Tibi
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Message 7
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:56:22 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45172] Re: Pasting a large sheet of paper on the woodblock
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Roll up the paper and lay it down a little at a time as it unrolls...use a rubber brayer to roll it down as it unrolls or a stick of wood.
If you use rice paste instead of the acrylic you might have better luck
My best
Barbara
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Message 8
From: key sevn
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:13:11 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45173] Re: Pasting a large sheet of paper on the woodblock
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why acrylic? - it's impossible to wash out later.

2012/2/29 Barbara Mason

> Roll up the paper and lay it down a little at a time as it unrolls...use a
> rubber brayer to roll it down as it unrolls or a stick of wood.
> If you use rice paste instead of the acrylic you might have better luck
> My best
> Barbara
>

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

Subject: Knife set - more testing of box designs - part 2
Posted by: Dave Bull

After getting the tools 'improved' the other day, with the new feather boards, etc., I spent the day yesterday making another prototype for the box for the knife/chisel set. The first model, a few weeks ago, was kind of prosaic and nothing special, not to mention that the method of storing the booklet that I want to include was kind of clunky.

So - taking that initial box as a starting point - I built Mark II this time:

It uses the same wooden pin hinge system, but this time, the hinge is brought forward partway along the top:

So when you open it up, the top rests against the support ...


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Subject: About that newspaper ad ...
Posted by: Dave Bull

It's been a week since I ran the ad in the local newspaper looking for staff. Have you been waiting for a report on the response?

Heh heh ... I suppose the fact that I haven't posted anything about it tells you all you need to know! Yes, I was 'shut out' completely; there was not the slightest response. No calls, no emails, no nothing.

By the time a few days had gone by, it was kind of clear which way it was going to go, so I started to think about 'Plan B' (or whatever letter we are now up to ... getting somewhere near 'Z' maybe?)

I wasn't really sure what else I could do though. Word of mouth hasn't been getting me anywhere; this ad did nothing ... what else is there? And then, this morning I had a phone call from Numabe-san the printer. For some time now, he too has been concerned about the future of traditional Japanese printmaking, but he has taken a different approach from me. He is a member of a government-subsidized organization (sponsored by the Culture Agency, I believe) devoted to the preservation of the craft, and for the past year has been running a small-scale training program using their financial support, teaching printing to a few young people on a part time basis - I think the sessions were twice a week.

Anyway, the financial year is coming to an end (April 1st is the start of the year here in Japan: school . . .
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Subject: Bathing Beauties
Posted by: Sue

At long last, (having been delayed by many outside factors), I have managed to complete the block and start an edition run! So here we are.....bathing beauties! Three jolly hardy ladies ride the surf on their ancient wooden belly boards.

And all I can say is 'Roll on, Summer!'. I can't wait to get my belly board wet again.



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