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Message 1
From: Lana Lambert
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:33:29 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45452] Re: Making pigment from powder
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I grind my pigments in a mortar and pestle with alcohol when I use them. I wear a particulate respirator and use caution. I then store them suspended in a jar with enough alcohol to cover the top. I can come back to them whenever I want and they stay in paste form until the alcohol evaporates. I've found the alcohol fumed degrade the metal in the jar lid and escape that way after a few years. (Years!) So, when I print I only end up using nori paste and pigment that is suspended in alcohol.
-Lana Lambert

"When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Message 2
From: NANCY OSADCHUK
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:44:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45453] Re: Baren Digest (old) V59 #5989
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Today, i only received the 'old' version...no new one at all???
Nancy O

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Message 3
From: "Maria Arango Diener"
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:38 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45454] WANTED: large printmaking paper
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Sorry for cross-posting!

I am just getting ready to print some of my larger older works and went
paper shopping.



So I thought if anyone has any printmaking paper in white, buff or tan
(preferred) of any kind, AND you would like some cash instead of paper just
sitting there and don't plan on using it, I would oblige and take it off
your hands at a reasonable price.



Size requirement at least 26" x 40" (such as BFK Light) but prefer 30" x 40"
size.

Quantity requirement at least 20-30 sheets, more preferred up to 100? just
to make it worth our respective time and effort.



Will pay shipping of course, have FedEx number, will travel short distances,
will work for big paper.



Please email me OFF LIST quickly as I will order in the next few days.
1000woodcuts AT gmail DOT com



Thank you for putting up with the advert!

Maria



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Message 4
From: Ruth Egnater
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:06:42 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45455] Re: Relief for relief
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To Barbara Mason, I have tried to send you a message for 3 different days only to have each attempt fail, even your address on the Baren Forum home page. Since this has been going on for over 2 weeks it may be too late but I was thinking about the incredible gift you have arranged for linda and myself. If the package hasn't gone out yet to Linda, besides adding Lindas weeping piece I was wondering if you could also include prints by Raymond Hudson, Michell Morrell, and Erin Nolin and Preston Lawing. As always thanks for all your hard work and amazing dedication to the Baren.. Ruth Egnater
regnaterrn@comcast.net

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Message 5
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:30:16 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45456] Re: Relief for relief
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Ruth, this is so odd, your emails from me bounce as well, so I am not sure what is going on.
I did get all your emails....so no problems there but so odd mine are bouncing...I am having no other problems with anyone else that I know of. It is a ghost in cyberspace
Barbara

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Message 6
From: Ruth Egnater
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:34:36 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45457] Re: Relief for relief
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[to Barbara] Any idea how to fix this?

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Message 7
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 00:45:17 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45458] Re: Relief for relief
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Ruth,
I sent you an email with an alternate address... barbaramason45@gmail.com I don't check that often but do once in awhile
I sent myself an email from the relief for relief page and it came through to my yahoo address.
I have to think the problem is somehow in your computer but don't know what to advise you. I am on a MAC and have used it so long that the PC is the dark side for me now. When my husband needs help I need to call a teenager....
So far the email I sent you has not bounced so let me know if you got it.
My best
Barbara

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Message 8
From: jennifer kelly
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:37:38 GMT
Subject: [Baren 45459] Re: Making pigment from powder
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Since discovering Baren a few years ago, I have developed an interest in pigment. Indeed I recently finished a small book, "Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments." On p 25 there is a reference to using a small amount of gum arabic in a water solution to act as a binder. It has the effect of suspending pigment in water. Even more recently I made a quick trip to the edge of the outback, over 3000km round trip and brought back some red earth as it is known, although it is more orange than red. It is really inexpensive, it is just the local soil, just bend down and pick it up from the roadside! I have separated the pigment from the rest, it is almost all pigment! I was going to experiment with making a suspended pigment solution suck as Mike and others have described. ........has anyone out there made or heard of similar experiments, successful or not? If so, could the info be shared?
Jenny
PS, yes it would have been easier to just purchase some from the local art supply shop.....lol

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Subject: Shin Jidai Opens This Week in Minneapolis
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Subject: Some loose ends!
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