From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 01/01/01-12:38:00 PM Z
Sarah Can Keuren wrote:
>Sandy, I think the range of brown tones of an uncontaminated VDB on a
>suitable paper can be quite full of life, but that is ultimately a question
>of taste. Sometimes my students have produced vandykes with gray-black
>tones that are impossible to distinguish from palladium. This happens on
>humid days or when the paper is not quite dry.
Vandyke is certainly very easy and reliable so if you like the colors
great. I would imagine it is also a great process to use to introduce
students to hand-made papers.
Just curious, though, in addition to the gray/black colors you sometimes
have seen are, there other colors that one can get from Vandyke? I am
curious because a while back I used the dry mount press to flatten a
Vandyke print out and it changed the color from a light chocolate black to
a very deep dark/black much more neutral in tone. When I put the print in
the dry mount press it still had some humidity in it, though it was dry.
Sandy King
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