From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 02/15/00-12:33:45 AM Z
Spraying developer:
I found it very difficult to get an even spray from any of the spray,
perfume, or similar contraptions. Yet the notion of buying an airbrush &
learning to use it for what is essentially an experiment, seems excessive.
2 suggestions:
1. the evenest spray I found is the Dahlia mister, tool of many uses, but
expensive. Try TALAS. But note that it's still not as even as airbrush,
and the droplets, although finer than spray bottle, are coarser than
airbrush.
2. When we were young artists, before all this newfangled aerosol,
airbrush, and like that, we sprayed fixative on our charcoal drawings by
mouth -- a little gizmo hinged in the center, cost about 75 cents, the
bottom tube stuck in the fixative jar, the one angled out from it you put
in your mouth and blew. Worked fine. And I'm here to tell the tale oh,
let's say, almost three-quarters of a century later. You could probably
make one out of two straws or like that.
(And of course, after we'd sprayed our drawings, we split a few rails, and
walked 20 miles barefoot through the snow to school.)
Judy
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