Re: My own PVA glue sizing experience (attn: marek + the gum woesagain)

[phritz phantom <phritz-phantom@web.de>]

yes! great idea.
i have a pack of marble dust (same thing, iirc) around! i bought it for 
mixing with gesso, but results were not too good, better than without 
though. completely forgot about it. thanks for the reminding me.
and i can totally understand you. i get wet eyes a lot, when i look at 
the prices in the usa.

regarding humidity,
since you know a lot more about the subject than me,
do you think a change in weather (from a normal, sunny autumn day, to a 
rainy day) could change the humidity within my apartment in a way that 
it affects the drying of the gum emulsion?
iirc, you humidify your paper before coating and/ or printing?

phritz


Loris Medici schrieb:
> Try to add calcium carbonate powder into the glue. Maybe that will
> make something usable? It works for acrylic gesso (with some
> reservations)... I may switch to PVAc glue if that works for me; PVAc
> glue is considerably cheaper than acrylic gesso to me. May not be so
> for others; art materials are usually priced high here in Istanbul.
> For instance, they sell an A3+ sheet of my favourite inkjet paper for
> USD 10, can you believe that!? The paper is Hahnemuehle Photo Rag
> Ultrasmooth BTW... I tried to tell them (the product manager at the
> distributor office) that they can't penetrate the market with those
> prices but it was like talking to a wall...
>
>
>  2009/10/23 phritz phantom <phritz-phantom@web.de>:
>   
> > ...
> > caparol 1+4 on primed canvas and wood (a layer of white acrylic primer
> > beneath) did print fine, but the exposed gum had nothing to adhere to and
> > washed off completely. the situation was a little better on the canvas than
> > on the wood.
> > maybe this is interesting to someone
> >     
>