The ones I was looking at were sixty to eighty years old and the colours made
sense in the context. Degas used them too and his pictures look alright to me
but then I did not see them fresh! Turner's water-colours are horribly faded.
You can tell by looking under themounts.
> Reading the
> FAQ made me think that the bleaching action by itself actually
> -removed- all the silver; but that can't be if you say to bleach the
> whole print first.
No the bleach turns the silver back to a salt which has to be fixed to wash the
salt away. If you do not fix the salt returns to silver so you get the picture
back.
> In any case, your "cannot see why not" got
> me thinking "Why would I want to?" then realizing that the two
> different 'looks' could be quite different after all ... or only
> subtly different, depending on your inking technique.
They could be, according to choice, very different colours.
>> Hope this helps
> Indeed it does. I've finally started reading the '96
> archives, and see that the short FAQ blurb on bromoil makes it
> sound much easier than it turns out to be for most people when
> they're starting out. But your answers indicate that it's
> as flexible as I'd hoped, so I'll definitely give it a wirl some
> time in the next year. Thanks.
Reading the archive, where there is a subject orientated version, might be more
helpful.
Terry
Dennis Carlyle
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