acorns(!)

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

> > 2008/10/30 Loris Medici <mail@loris.medici.name>:
> >
> >
> > > Hi Keith,
> > >
> > > BTW, see my latest print here:
> > > http://www.loris.medici.name/gum/acrons_03_ymc_sm.jpg
> > > Partial calibration; single curve for all colors (devised for  
> > > magenta),
> > > stock yellow and magenta solutions, eyeballing cyan from tube...
> > > The horizontal bands are the effect of paper negative.  
> > > (Unfortunately some
> > > sheets show that pattern.) Print size 7x10".
> > >
> > > There's considerably more staining than I'd like to have, but  
> > > still works
> > > for me...

Thanks for sharing your progress, Loris.  A couple of questions:

(1) what is the background color supposed to be?  Is it  white except  
for the shadows under the figures, or is there some tone there?

(2) remind me what you use for size?

The reason I'm asking these questions is that I'm not entirely  
convinced that what you're calling stain is actually stain, but I  
need a little more information to be more confident about what I  
think is going on.

I can't quite see the relationship between what you've said you've  
done here and what you said you were proposing to do, but that's okay  
with me.  I'd rather see you (or anyone) making gum prints than  
getting lost in calibration and testing, and besides, it's more fun  
to make pictures.  (I can say this after spending some time a year or  
two ago printing calibration charts myself).
Katharine