Re: Hand-Coloring hand-coated prints...help!


shaun james (shauny@erols.com)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 06:44:22 -0400


FotoDave@aol.com wrote:
>
> In general you should use materials compatible to the image coat, for
> example, watercolor for gum, same ink for oil prints and the coloring coat,
> etc.; otherwise the image coat and the color coat might age differently, so
> what looks beautiful to you today might be a disaster a few years from now.
>
> Also, a general principle to avoid/minimize cracking is that each successive
> coat should be more flexible than the previous coat, not the other way
> around. You can read more about this in Mayer's "The Artists' Handbook."
>
> Dave S
Thanx,
  Shaun



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