[alt-photo] Re: applying PVA size

[Diana Bloomfield]

Henry,

I use just a regular old cheap brush for coating the PVA.  You can  
wash it as soon as you use it, but  I tend to use one or two brushes,  
different sizes, that I dedicate to PVA use-- and not use them for  
anything else.  Even though it's easily washed out, I find it does  
change the softness of the brush.  And I definitely wouldn't use a  
brush as expensive as the Richeson for this.

  I use it straight, no dilution at all, but it is a very thin coat I  
put down. Seems to work really well for me-- no problems at all.   
Others dilute.  That may also depend on the paper.  I tend to use only  
BFK Rives.

I think you'll really like it.  And I always feel like I need to thank  
Jim Larimer for being the first here to talk about using PVA for gum  
printing.  It's really been so much easier and more convenient to use,  
not to mention offering better results. :)

Diana


On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Henry Rattle wrote:

> I've just acquired some Gamblin PVA size for my gum printing (thank  
> you John
> B for alerting us to Stuart R Stevenson as UK supplier - as you say,  
> he is
> most helpful). Now quite excited at the possibility of preparing a  
> sheet or
> two of paper as I go, rather than batch-processing with hot gelatine
> solutions, formalin etc.
>
> I'm a bit nervous of using my precious Richeson brush for PVA. Have  
> those of
> you who are using PVA size for gum any advice re suitable brushes and
> dilutions?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Henry
>
>
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