>I am a little unclear, are these colours you mention watercolours? I haven't
had a lot of luck in printing with anything but watercolours or powdered
pigment. So if these aren't watercolours it would open a whole new world to
me. When I first started gum I tried printing with Liquitex acrylics without
any great success. If this is what you are using do you have any suggestions
on printing with it?<
Hello Bernie,
You can get these colours in watercolours, a very good book which I use as
a bible
When colour mixing is" The Wilcox Guide to to the finest watercolour
paints"this book is published by Artways, P.O. Box 350, Cloverdale, Perth,
Western Australia.Very good information resource.
>While I haven't had much trouble printing the yellows layers first, it would
be nice to have a transparent yellow to help achieve colour balance. Now if I
want more yellow after printing my cyan coats, I know I will need one more
coat of magenta and cyan to cover it. <
>I am not sure why you print in the order that you do. It would seem that if
the yellow is transparent it would be fun to print one coat of each color and
keep working that way towards the final print. This would allow you to
adjust the color balance while working towards the color depth step by step.<
I used the the yellow down first method for a number of years, and how I
used to get round the control problem was to put the first coat down
deliberately light , then on the final coat before the black printed very
thin glaze coats of yellow to bring the print into balance. I stumbled
across the Arnold Gassan method and found it far superior particularly
from an enhancement point of view. Personally I find it more satisfying to
print in this way , this does of course not mean that your proposed
method, would not work just as well, there are as the Chinese say many
paths to Heaven not just one :-)
pete
P.C.Fredrick,
34 Trinity Road,
Southend-on-sea,
Essex, UK.