Re: gum prints on Yupo

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

Hi Erie,
Having done a quick search on my own (since I'm feeling that my  
favorite paper has really gotten too expensive --33% increase in the  
last couple of years is ridiculous--  I'm not so far enthralled with  
masa,  and I also have a supply of yupo in my flat file, I'm  
interested in going back and looking at this again too, and wanted to  
review my own earlier experiments as well as seeing what other people  
have reported)  I'm not sure you're going to find a lot.  I posted  
some experiments on yupo in 2004, and some more in 2006, which were  
in the main not entirely successful, and I had taken those down but  
have put them back up on the site today, as examples of things that  
I've tried.

http://www.pacifier.com/~kthayer/html/Yupo.html
http://www.pacifier.com/~kthayer/html/Yupo2.html

Some incompatibility between my browser and Marek's site, apparently,  
allows me only to see the thumbnail for this group of images in his  
gallery, nothing else, but that thumbnail is definitely stunning and  
I wish I could see more.  This is light years better than anything  
I've managed with yupo so far.

So, Marek, I wonder if you'd mind sharing your techniques for working  
with yupo?

Katharine




On Oct 31, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Erie Patsellis wrote:

> Having only noticed the yupo threads in passing, I now find myself  
> with access to a fair amount of it, mostly in 23x35 sheets of 8mil  
> natural, does anybody have a resource with regard to sizing,  
> etc.all in one place, or am I doomed to use Thunderbird's horrid  
> search function?
>
>
> erie
>
> Rene Hales wrote:
>
> > Marek, the flowers in vases are stunning. --Rene
> >
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     *From:* Marek Matusz [mailto:marekmatusz@hotmail.com]
> >     *Sent:* Friday, October 31, 2008 5:06 PM
> >     *To:* alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> >     *Subject:* gum prints on Yupo
> >
> >
> >
> >     Katharine,
> >     Thanks for point out this link (or was it Loris in the original
> >     post). I never made it that far and it made for a very  
> > interesting
> >     reading.
> >     _http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/tech16.html_
> >     One thing that Bruce MacEvoy mentions is yupo for one of the
> >     experiments and explains why watercolors look very luminous on
> >     that substrate. It totally agrees with my observations and has
> >     reignited my desire to experiment some more with yupo. I have  
> > some
> >     nice prints and they just glow. Main problem with it is that gum
> >     does not stick to it and it seems to be unpredictable in the way
> >     it peels off and flakes. Sometimes patches will come off,
> >     sometimes just spots.
> >          Here are some prints
> >     http://picasaweb.google.com/marekmatusz1/GumBichromateOnYupo#
> >     Marek
> >
> >      
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