Re: Printing white on black
Kees, beautiful work. Thanks for the tip! I have more than one method to do it then... :) Regards, Loris. 25 Mart 2009, Çarşamba, 11:48 am tarihinde, Kees Brandenburg yazmış: > Hi Loris, > > It's a long time ago when I experimented with this. I mixed an > acrylic paint in a normal 3% gelatin solution to get a firm black > and brushed it on paper and hardened afterwards. Another aproach is > to paint your paper (black) with acrylic and than add a normal size on > top. > > An acrylic undercolor was used for these gumprinted portraits: > http://polychrome.nl/brandenburg/cv/kunstliefde/liefde.html > ... ten years ago allready - time flies > > I also did cyano's on colored paper: > http://polychrome.nl/brandenburg/cv/distexit/distexit1.html > and http://polychrome.nl/brandenburg/cv/distexit/distexit3.html (1994) > A cyano on black paper looks very special! For these I used ordinary > colored photocopy papers. I had to test a lot of papers: many lost > their color in the water. > > kees > > > On 25 mrt 2009, at 09:26, Loris Medici wrote: > >> Keith, so you're saying "helping" the black watercolor paint with >> some ink >> will make a nice dark black surface to print. Thanks for the >> suggestion! >> >> Kees, I assume it would take a lot of gelatin and pigment to make a >> dark >> background -> wouldn't that affect the adhesion / grip of the >> subsequent >> gum layer(s)? >> >> Regards, >> Loris. >> >> >> 25 Mart 2009, Ã�arÅ�amba, 10:22 am tarihinde, Kees Brandenburg >> yazmıÅ�: >>> ... or mix black (or other color) pigment in the gelatin when sizing >>> >>> kees >>> >>> >>> On 25 mrt 2009, at 00:24, Keith Gerling wrote: >>> >>>> I found that a dense black gum layer using sumi ink and gouache >>>> makes for an easy black ground that stays put..
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