Re: Arches Aquarelle and Gum
Isn't that amazing. FWIW I think that Fabriano Artistico is absolutley fabulous for cyanotype - I couldn't recommend it more highly for the deep rich blue and its ability to take another coating and make the deep blue even deeper. cheers Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loris Medici" <mail@loris.medici.name> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 6:19 PM Subject: RE: Arches Aquarelle and Gum > Hi Michael, > > FWIW, I got good results with Fabriano Artistico Traditional White. > (It's no good for Cyanotypes though...) > > Regards, > Loris. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Koch-Schulte [mailto:mkochsch@shaw.ca] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 7:19 AM > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Subject: Re: Arches Aquarelle and Gum > > > Thanks Judy. Not the answer I wanted to hear, in fact it made me howl a > four-letter-word familiar to many New Yorkers. But good to know. The > mottling receded a bit but I think it's just the way they make the > paper. On a side note I tried sizing a sheet of Arches 88 and it went > right throught it, it looked like typing paper in hot candle wax. > Translucent. Probably a trip to the Artists Emporium tomorrow... ~m > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com> > To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> > Cc: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca> > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:25 PM > Subject: Re: Arches Aquarelle and Gum > > > > On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Michael Koch-Schulte wrote: > > > > > Anyone offer opinions on using Arches Aquarelle with gum. I'm giving > some a > > > good hot soak right now and it looks like it "mottles" (sizing?) in > > > the > 140F > > > temperature water. Is this bad? I'm just out of Rives right now. I > haven't > > > see much mention of this paper in the archives in the context of > > > gum. > Thx. > > > > > > Michael, > > > > I hesitate to say this because it's many years since I've used that > > paper, and they seem to change every few years (they keep the name & > > change the paper). I found that in its "natural" state it was probably > > > the WORST paper for gum I'd ever used, including typing paper, in that > > > it stained VERY badly, BUT -- with a good coat of added gelatin size, > > hardened, it was quite fine. > > > > As for mottling -- I've found that, for whatever reasons, certain > > papers will mottle during the sizing process, but once they're sized > > and hardened the mottling disappears. > > > > Judy > >
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