RE: Arches Aquarelle and Gum

[Loris Medici <mail@loris.medici.name>]

Hi Catherine,

AFAIK, there are two variants of that paper: 1) Traditional White 2)
Extra White. Which one you're using? Which cyanotype formula are you
using? Do you acidify the paper before printing and/or add citric/oxalic
acid into the coating solution?

Thanks in advance,
Loris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Rogers [mailto:crogers@optusnet.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 1:15 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: 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
>
>