Re: tips for using dry pigment

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Loris Medici wrote:

> Actually, carbon printing is pretty easy / straightforward once you manage
> to make a good tissue -> that's the real hard part of the whole process
> (not mentioning the strict environment requirements). Of course, there's
> always the possibility of buying ready made tissue. Fortunately
> Bostick-Sullivan makes nice carbon tissue for the more outcome oriented
> and/or faint hearted.
Or if not "faint hearted," perhaps time-impaired.  But what about the 
price differential?  I would assume that, ultimately, once you've acquired 
the ingredients and equipment, Your Own is much cheaper.

This is just musing, however... I promise to never, EVER, carbon print, 
let alone make the tissue. I assume that it's beautiful, or can be ... as 
I remember the raptures about Fresson (said, I seem to recall, to be a 
form of carbon printing. But, like an image of the Virgin Mary on a 
window screen, possibly, arguably, also in the eye of the beholder?)

J.