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

[eric nelson]

It does handle nicely w/less chance of crinking/damage but like you say I
don't think it was meant for a wet process.  I use Strathmore single ply
plate finish for albumen but haven't tried using it much w/other processes
in recent history to add much there.  It worked pretty well for albumen
when I printed last year...or was it the year before.  I'm over 7 months
w/o a darkroom presently so I'm a little behind!
e

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On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Christina Anderson <
christinazanderson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ;)
> >
>
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