From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 11/14/01-04:30:11 PM Z
>Hello!
>
>I'm looking to get a small pinhole 4x5 and start having fun with the
>kido's. What do you guys recommend for "safe" contact printing with
>the kids (chemical wise that is). I'll process the film but I want to
>have fun making prints with them.
I also recommend cyanotype. But I would just get the chemicals for
coating your own paper, rather than buying precoated paper. For one
thing, some precoated fabric and paper may have potassium dichromate
in it, which is toxic. I got the kit from Bostick and Sullivan for
twenty something dollars and printed all summer with those chemicals.
I made about a hundred prints. Also, get good paper. It's
disappointing when you use paper that doesn't work well with
cyanotype. I use Crane's Platinotype (also available from B and S) or
Whatman's Fine Printmaking paper, which is a little harder to find.
I like the Crane's better anyway.
--shannon
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