[alt-photo] Re: Sizing

[Paul Viapiano]

Also, the order of printing the various colors makes a big difference in 
good contrast, clean highlights, non-muddied shadows, etc...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Blackburn" <blackburnap at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 12:31 PM
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: Sizing



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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