[alt-photo] Re: van dyke brown and strathmore

[eric nelson]

Are you refering to Strathmore Artist Drawing paper 1 or 2 ply?
2 ply will separate.
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Christina Anderson <
christinazanderson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> So yesterday I taught VDB to my students and FINALLY experienced the
> delaminating of Strathmore that people have mentioned on the list every now
> and then, probably years ago.
> I had a bunch of different papers that I had bought through Freestyle and
> through a common art store, the pads of papers that you typically see at a
> Michaels or whatnot.
> We used all these different papers with both cyanotype (last week) and now
> VDB.
> The Strathmore series is GORGEOUS for both processes, but with the VDB
> there were little bubbles where the paper had not torn but had sort of
> lifted up from below. Very odd looking. At first I thought the student had
> been too rough with the paper with the tongs but apparently not. I think if
> she's quite careful it will work but I've just never seen that before until
> yesterday.
> I still absolutely love that cheap Canson U Sketch called Crob Art, and
> the Canson Montval is beautiful as well.
> Another couple things: I mixed the solution with warm water this time--no
> white precipitate.
> And I used it right away and it was fine, no waiting to ripen. I kind of
> had to because I was going to do kallitype and the shipment of chems didn't
> come in time, so I had to switch the day of lab and mix up VDB on the fly.
> With my quick n easy teaspoon measure recipe.
> Fun times, fun times...last year this time I was struggling with
> inappropriate paper choices and argyrotype so to see that nice rich brown
> pop up in the development is such a joy.
> One more thing, I left a print in the fix for several hours to see if it
> would bleach out completely and although it does bleach to an unacceptable
> level, the image was still there. It was a good visual for the students.
> How much fun to be done writing and back to creating...
> Chris
>
> Christina Z. Anderson
> christinaZanderson.com
>
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