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  Mokuhankan Conversations

  Portraits series cases arrive! - We finally have some cases available for our Portraits print series ...

  3 hours ago
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  LACRIME Di ROSPO

  

  Year of the Horse - According to the Chinese Zodiac. Jan 31st is the start of the New Year and 2014 

  is the Year of the (wooden) Horse. I don't follow astrology so I can't re...

  6 hours ago
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  Brush and Baren

  

  Linocut in Progress: No more mystery- Mostly - I admit it, I got a good chuckle out of responses to 

  my linocut doggerel. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending how you look at it) the poetry muse has ...

  18 hours ago
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  woodblock dreams

  

  Hercules - SECRET CODEWORDS OF THE NSA: HERCULES woodblock print (mokuhanga)

   6" x 6" (152.4 x 152.4 mm) 5 layers of color plus blind emboss on Kochi Kozo paper edit...

  2 days ago
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  Terry Sargent Peart

  

  PRINTING THE YEAR OF THE HORSE PRINT - I cut some paper and set everything up and 

  printed about eight of the 'color' plate with Akua Carbon Black. Good thing I decided to check 

  the registration ...

  2 days ago
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  Robert Simola

  In Praise of Good and Useful Tools - While I do believe there is a place for cheap and crappy tools, these tools 

  can be so frustrating to use (or try to use). But is buying Pfeil gouges the o...

  3 days ago
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  Baren-Suji: Baren Blog

  Chinese woodblock printmaking - video 1984 - Found this short gem among the video library of the University of 

  South Carolina. The film dates to 1984 and shows a group of woodblock printers at work. ...

  3 days ago
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  Deconstruction / Art Contemplations

  

  Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix - *Art Spiegelman* True confession; if not for comics I probably wouldn't be 

  an artist. As a kid from a small town with blue collar parents, museums and cu...

  4 days ago
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  Pistoles Press

  

  more Gruff work - Itching to get back to painting and illustration, I pulled out my Three Billy Goats Gruff 

  painting. I miss painting, or I should say I *missed* painting....

  4 days ago

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  Mellissa Read-Devine

  

  Artists Diary 26 January 2014 - First of all, *Happy Australia Day!* Its been a huge week, husband home 

  from overseas, daughter having wisdom teeth out and Ive had a birthday, which has s...

  6 hours ago
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  Brush and Baren

  

  Linocut in Progress: Finishing the Guillemot - *Guillemot linocut: Step 10*So here we are at the end 

  of this image... and I have mixed feelings about its success. I think it's safe to say that most arti...

  1 day ago
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  Mokuhankan Conversations

  Webcast with Jed ... recorded version - Webcast recorded version ...

  3 days ago
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  LACRIME Di ROSPO

  

  Etagami - "Winter Vegetable; Indoor color when flowers are few" 4"x6" watercolor and sumi on  

  Washi. I joined the local Japanese cultural association; LAILAC which ai...

  3 days ago
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  Baren-Suji: Baren Blog

  Demonstration by woodblock printmaker Paul Binnie - Toledo Museum of Art - This is a recent video uploaded by 

  the Toledo Museum of Art so not sure how many of you have seen it. "On Thursday, November 21, 2013, contemporary 

  Japan-t...

  4 days ago
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  Robert Simola

  In Praise of crappy tools - The best tools are the best for a reason, but even the best, most expensive tools are 

  no good if they are not razor sharp. This set of six tools was about...

  5 days ago
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  Turtle Moon Impressions

  

  A Class With Pamela Allen! - My days have been pretty busy here between printing and art quilting. 

  My Year of the Horse prints are drying and will show them here after they're off and ...

  5 days ago
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  Pistoles Press

  

  Open Sesame - I've finally rounded up all the password books I've created onto etsy. Yay! What's 

  a password book you ask? Well, it's the best thing since sliced bread...

  6 days ago
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  Deconstruction / Art Contemplations

  

  The Tempest - The Tempest - © William Evertson - Woodcut 20" x 60" "Full fathom five thy father lies; 

  Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: ...

  6 days ago
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  woodblock dreams

  

  Genie - SECRET CODEWORDS OF THE NSA: GENIE woodblock print 

  (mokuhanga) 6" x 6" (152.4 x 152.4 mm) 6 layers of color plus blind emboss on Kochi Kozo paper edition:...

  6 days ago

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  Mellissa Read-Devine

  

  Artists Diary 19 January 2014 - It certainly is hard getting back into the swing of things, the year is 

  powering ahead and I don't think I have caught up yet. I have had some happy news -...

  2 hours ago
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  Brush and Baren

  

  Linocut in Progress: Guillemot... getting close! - *Guillemot linocut: Step 8*So now we arrive at the 

  moment in which Sherrie's impatience could set us over the edge. This pass was a transparent brown/blue ...

  12 hours ago
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  Baren-Suji: Baren Blog

  

  "City of the World" and "Fantastic Garden" Exhibition in UK - Barener Harry French from the UK has 

  arranged for a exhibition of two of Maria Arango Diener's collaborative print projects. "The Bishop 

  Grosseteste, Unive...

  1 day ago
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  Pressing-Issues

  Into the New Year - Two weeks into the new year all ready. I've been sidelined from printing by the Muse. I'm working 

  on my trunk novel. But when I get back to printerly t...

  2 days ago
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  LACRIME Di ROSPO

  

  Fixed - The repaired piece is barely visible at the bottomHere's a quick peek at the repaired line. It's 

  not perfect but it will be fine once the colors are added...

  4 days ago
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  Robert Simola

  Carving Wood Block Prints Workshop - Carving Wood Block Prints Workshop with Bob Simola 

  Sunday, February 9: 9 am – 3 pm Click here for more information or to sign up. If you are a wood carver ...

  5 days ago

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  Pistoles Press

  

  Law & Order Studio - special victims unit - Shove that dead body off the table and clear the forensics lab.

   I've got some detective work to do. One down, fourteen to go. I've finally fished all of...

  23 hours ago
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  LACRIME Di ROSPO

  

  Quick Fix: repairing a small woodblock defect - I still have a little bit of clearing to do on my little Year of 

  the Horse print but I saw I had one small defect that was going to need a little repair. ...

  1 day ago
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  Mellissa Read-Devine

  

  Artists Diary - Dont know how long this New Year's plan will last, but here is the first week of art in 2014. 

  Happy New Year! Attended a meeting for the Hawkesbury Printma...

  1 day ago
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  Mokuhankan Conversations

  Live Webcast! - Jed & Dave - Live Webcast in Tokyo!

  3 days ago
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  Brush and Baren

  

  Fieldwork Friday: Mesohippus. Because it's the Year of the Horse and this is as close as I'll get. - Enough 

  with the seabirds, already. Let's look at something different for a bit. I know! How about ancient horse 

  skeletons from somewhere in my sketchbook...

  3 days ago