From: Terry King, 101522,2625
TO: Peter Charles Fredrick, INTERNET:pete@fotem.demon.co.uk
DATE: 18/08/96 15:01
RE: Copy of: Re: 4 gums
Gummists
Judy tested four gums on lots of different papers.
I have been making gum prints successfully for over twenty years and not one of
the gums I use, or any one of the papers, was included in Judy's tests. Not even
Gloy.
One can make gums using many differnt kinds of gum arabic, Gloy. cassein, egg
tempera, albumen, fish glue, whole egg, PVA and so on and so on. One can use
pure pigments, tube water-colours, metal powders. and many other ground
materials. One cam make the print on glazed and unglazed ceramics, wood, slate,
silk, muslin, copper,many differnt water-colour papers, sugar paper, old shoe
boxes, acetate, limestone and glass and many other surfaces.
You can register it with pins and tape or by sticking it down tp Perspex or
other rigin surfaces, or by usong ecpensive register bars.
Just think of the possible permutations of that little lot.
The important thing is to understand the basic principles and then apply them
to achieve your own objectives.
The way it is done will vary from person to person.
It is that flexibility that engenders the creative joy that arises from gum
printing.
There ain't one right way of doing it.
Terry King