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

[Christina Anderson]

the two-ply.
Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:33 PM, eric nelson wrote:

> Are you refering to Strathmore Artist Drawing paper 1 or 2 ply?
> 2 ply will separate.
> e
> 
> 
> 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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