Rule #1 when learning a difficult process: Eliminate as many variables and
complicated steps as possible. There was a brand --Bocour? that made large
tubes of cheap watercolors for students. Something like that should do the
trick for a beginner. Browns and blacks are usually made of the cheapest
materials, e.g., carbon black and earth pigments and are quite permanent.
>She can get a pound of black pigment for $5 at the school store. She
>asked me, and I said I'd "ask the list", does the pigment have to be
>worked into the gelatine first in some special way? I recall Sandy King
A wellknown book on carbon printing covers this in great details... Still,
the use of powder is not recommended to a beginner.
Luis Nadeau
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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