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

[Eric Nelson]

Aye that'll do it. I've not had luck keeping my sheets together either. ;)



On Feb 8, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Christina Anderson <christinazanderson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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