From: Kris Erickson (kerickso@ryerson.ca)
Date: 07/30/02-03:23:52 PM Z
Uhh... drying room? I tend to coat at midnight and put lay the paper all
over my floor to dry until morning(except in the places where I expect to
step before I realize that, in a half-awake state, I coated cyanotype the
night before). The fan helps me sleep.
;-)
with a low heat output UV unit, and a very tight contact frame (vacuum
frame) I've had little problem with stickiness (except where the cyanotype
pools in corners, edges, etc.)
With my dad's elegant (not being cheeky--it's really beautiful) homemade
frame, I have had problems with sunlight, even on supposedly dry paper---NOT
with UV tubes, however.
Like I said, GENERALLY it's when the sensitizer pools, only occasionally at
other times.
Perhaps we import our chemicals from our Motherland. Did anyone else know
that Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state of Canada?
>From the Dominion of Canada, the Great White North, and the 21st century,
Kris Erickson
-----Original Message-----
From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
Sent: July 30, 2002 11:02 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Quickee Cyanotype Question
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Kris Erickson wrote:
> cyanotype is always a little sticky once you get it into a hot contact
> frame--no way around it, & no matter how dry it was to begin. Just try to
> minimize the pooling, and unless it's not extremely flat in the frame, you
> shouldn't have too much of a problem.
Reading these lines, I figured this fellow has got to be in England... but
it seems not. In any event, for the record, in NYC neither I nor literally
hundreds of space-cadet undergraduate students I've run through the medium
have found cyanotype "sticky."
I knew Mike Ware found that in England, but this is the first I've heard
of it elsewhere.
PS. Do you use a fan in the drying room?
J.
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