Re: First print on Al
22 Mart 2009, Pazar, 9:08 pm tarihinde, Rajul yazmış: > ... > I will also be meeting with someone who uses primed Al sheets to do > (?) art on hopefully tomorrow or day after. Will inform you if relevant. I hope you will be able to fetch useful information... > When you say you sanded the surface, Keith and Loris, was it AFTER > applying the gesso? I would imagine if one lightly sanded the Al > sheet, then squeaky cleaned it, then gessoed it, it might benefit > from increased tooth. I sand after applying the gesso. Since the ground is pretty thick, I don't think sanding the sheet itself will be useful for the gum layers. I experienced ground flaking once and it didn't flake to the extent of showing the underlying aluminum surface... > Color Merging: when you do a yellow gum on top of a blue gum pass on > paper media , you get some green areas. I did not see any green on my > first Al print: the two colors remained unmixed, defined by the > underlying brush strokes from the gessoeing and the brush strokes > from spreading the gum emulsion. Thanks for the explanation. Regards, Loris.
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