[alt-photo] Re: Sizing

[Peter Blackburn]

I meant "wrong" in the sense that many, many pigments will stain plain, out-of-the wrapper Artistico—but not all, far from it. Apparently, the pigments she has chosen to use stained her plain Artistico, forcing her to add additional size. Mary reported that she was unhappy with the unsized results and gave up. I would be, too. I usually do not like stain unless it's intentionally put it there. If Mary wants to use Artistico without adding size and she wants clean highlights, too, then the key is to find other pigments which will not stain. That's just my suggestion so as to help Mary discover that ever so elusive "whatever works."

Peter J. Blackburn
 

> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:08:06 +0200
> From: mail at loris.medici.name
> To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Sizing
> 
> IMHO there are very few wrongs in gum dichromate; there's only lots of
> experimentation - in order to find "whatever works".
> 
> Nice discussion to follow BTW!
> 
> Cheers to all,
> L.
> 
> 
> 2011/12/11 Peter Blackburn <blackburnap at hotmail.com>:
> > ...
> > Mary—it seems your lack of success is primarily due to choosing the wrong pigments for Artistico.
> > ...
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