I'd like to add another item to this list. I recently started using Goldens
Acrylics absorbant ground, with some success, on gessoed doorskin supports.
I found this product while looking for pumice powder in an artist supply
store in Palo Alto, CA. The stuff is a "100% acrylic liquid surfacing
medium, formulated to achieve the absorbancy of of a paper-like surface."
(Quote taken from the side of the container) So far, things are looking up:
I was able to make a 32"x36" cyanotype that stays put. I contact-printed it
using a full-size vellum as the transparency. The exposure time in the noon
day sun ran about an hour and a half. I processed the beast by spritzing
it with a garden hose.
Thanks to the list for your responses to my previous questions regarding
cyanotype emulsion application. They were most helpful and I will be trying
them out soon.
Patrick Hilferty
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Patrick Hilferty
philferty@earthlink.net
Http://home.earthlink.net/~philferty/
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