Re: Selectacolor has anyone tried it?

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

Interesting.... I've never heard of it, but it sounds like a new  
version of the long-gone.... what was that stuff called... KwikPrint?  
which also had a transparent base that you could add other colors to,  
besides the mixed process colors.
kt




On Jan 21, 2008, at 10:30 AM, davidhatton@totalise.co.uk wrote:

> HI all,
>
> I wondered if anyone has tried this product
>
> http://www.rockaloid.com/products.html
>
> page down 'til you find selectacolor.
>
> The product is available in the process colours, white and  
> interestingly colourless. It contains something called 'soft  
> gelatine', a pigment (unless coulerless of course) and a very small  
> amount of amm. dich..I have applied a couple of layers to glass and  
> it sticks very well although the pigment load is somewhat light.  
> It's interesting because the support people at rockland say that  
> any watercolour pigment may be added to the transparent solution.
>
> The solution is very slow but it does develop by wiping with a wet  
> sponge, in fact it can be treated quite roughly in development. I  
> thought I might try developing on heavily sized paper using the  
> sawdust and/or bleach immersion and wondered if there was anyone  
> else messing with this stuff??
>
> Regards
>
> David H