From: Sarah Van Keuren (svk@steuber.com)
Date: 06/10/00-10:24:50 AM Z
Garimo,maybe that cracks in the glaze phenomenon on the surface of your VDB
print is the same as the miniature mudflat that I described in my letter
below. I have not seen the students prints I refer to over the long haul so
I can't comment on change over time.
Sarah
> Hi Sarah,
> I wonder if you have kept track of how long prints with the liquitex
> hold up? A couple of years ago (summer of '98) there was talk here on
> the list of using the liquitex gloss medium as a glaze over prints...
> so I tried some. I think it was 1:10 and I brushed it over some
> cyanotypes and Van Dyke Brown prints. The look is a nice enhancement...
> I remember going to the liquitex web site and reading that they say it
> is archival... Since then, I have had a VDB print matted and framed
> hanging on the wall (not in bright sunlight but there is a skylight in
> that room)...and I have kept some cyanotypes in a portfolio box out of
> light. I have noticed no yellowing or any change in color in the past
> two years...but, the VDB print seems to have developed some cracks in
> the glaze like it is becoming brittle and shrinking and starting to
> separate. I keep watching it to to see if they grow and multiply...but
> it's so hard to measure by eye... I think they are growing... It's not
> the paper and print...but just the gloss finish on the surface.
> Have you ever noticed any aging effects of liquitex??
>
> garimo
>
>
>>Garet, if you tried two or three coats of Liquitex acrylic matte medium at
>>the high dilution of 1:10 on BFK Rives there might not be much staining, yet
>>the surface wouldn't have a plastic slickness. Some of my students have
>>sized paper this way with good gum printing results. The image formation is
>>slightly different than with hardened gelatin - it dries like an extremely
>>miniature mud flat and pigment collects in the cracks but releases in
>>highlight areas where you want it to.
>>
>>Sarah
>
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