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

[Christina Anderson]

Eric,
You, know, at first I was incredulous that a paper manufacturer would not correct this problem, but then I think it isn't meant for wet media I suppose. It sure does print beautiful tones in VDB.

In the past I've been a paper snob, only using 22x30 sheets of the usual suspects, but in the last couple years I have decided to buy the normal block pads at art stores to see if they are equally good. Last year was  mostly a disaster doing that with argyrotype so I was expecting the same this year with VDB (I try to alternate between kallitype, VDB, and argyrotype when teaching) but Canson and Strathmore pulled through as being great paper choices.

I usually have a stack of Fabriano Artistico HP, Crane's Cover, Weston, Arches Platine, and Cot 320 on hand at all times which for me covers all processes I might need to do, but none of these are common stock at smaller art stores.
Chris

Christina Z. Anderson
christinaZanderson.com

On Feb 8, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:

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