Re: Liquid light

Sandy Vrooman (kitsune@best.com)
Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:36:19 -0800

>In addition to today's comments on Sandy's Liquid Light problems:
>
>1. Rives BFK in beige (or whatever the color) has something, resin or other
>substance, in the fibre that inhibits absorption. It will not even
>take enough cyanotype to make a print. For a toned paper, try
>dye-it-yourself. (Someone on this list may know an archival one. I've
>used tea and coffee, but they tend to fade in light.)

Thanks for this info. So it really is the paper. Darn, I got a deal on
50 sheets of the stuff.

I got good cyanotypes with the white Rives BFK. I don't seem to have
the time to make the big negatives for contact printing when doing
the cyanotype or gum prints. I am working on getting more time.

Thanks to all who responded. I'm gonna try the Sprint stuff and keep
the trays covered. Another part of the problem is that I insist on
using the standard full sheets of paper so I got a lot of chemicals
out at one time.

Sandy Vrooman