[alt-photo] Re: to shrink or not to shrink (registration)

[Diana Bloomfield]

Thanks, Paul.  Yes, it would be tempting to leave that image as is--  
(or, yikes, put that PVA on for the 3rd layer.)   I do like that  
palette you've used.  Really nicely done.

Now I'm going to go and try a print on some Rives I have here, sans  
pre-shrinking and sizing.  I'll let you know if it turns out to be a  
total disaster.  I'm still adding drops of grain alcohol to my mix,  
for ease in coating (a little tip learned in Kerik's workshop)-- or  
maybe that was also to reduce those little sparkles with gelatin  
sizing?  But that also seems to make things brush on very smoothly,  
plus I like the smell of it.  I have a whole bottle of it here, so I  
have to use it somehow. ;)

Diana

On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Paul Viapiano wrote:

> Diana,
>
> That's why I chose this image. All the tile and brickwork is minute  
> and would show any problems.
>
> I'll be adding a 3rd layer, hopefully today, of burnt sienna...kind  
> of an old masters palette of indigo, raw sienna, burnt sienna that  
> was suggested a while ago by Keith Gerling. I printed this image  
> once before with the usual process colors, but the effect was garish.
>
> I'm hoping to be brave enough to print the 3rd layer without using  
> PVA size ;-)
>
> One difference for me in doing this print, is that I added a small  
> amount of water to the coating solution and it made all the  
> difference in coating smoothly on this paper in particular. So if I  
> used 1.25 ml of gum/pigment, I added about 1 ml of water plus 1 ml  
> of pot di.
>
> Earlier prints that didn't use the added water (on this same paper)  
> were very impressionistic, quite beautiful, but very different, ie,  
> as follows:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/viapiano/4155163449/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/viapiano/4138755731/
>
> The water-added coating seems to fill the valleys in the paper to  
> create a smooth-er look, at least to my eye.
>
> Thanks...Paul
>
>