Re: my first two gum prints

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

These are excellent, Charles, and not sizing seems to work fine for  
you.  The neutral grey of the coats shows how well your pigments and  
pigment proportions are balanced; this is very good work for   
beginning tricolor gum.

I sometimes have seen blown highlights like this in one-coat gums  
where the pigment mix is very heavy and the density range of the  
negative too long to be expressed in one gum coat of that mix, but  
almost never in tricolor gums.   How are you printing your  
negatives---what inks?
Katharine


On Sep 14, 2007, at 3:19 PM, ryberg wrote:

> Folks,
>     You may see my first two gum prints at http://home.comcast.net/ 
> ~cryberg/index.html
>
>    This is a pretty unsophisticated site--no flash, no java, just  
> cookbook html and hopfully fairly quick to load.
>    I would appreciate any advice, but especially what to do about  
> the total lack of texture in the woman's hat and sleeve.  Do you  
> think my curves need adjusting?  Should I go back to the orginal,  
> burn in the hat and reprint the negatives?.
>    By the way, this is three color, unsized Fabriano Aristico.
> Thanks,
> Charles   Portland OR