From: Clay Harmon (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 06/15/02-09:23:11 AM Z
Katherine:
Yowww... I think I like them as straight platinum. Yes indeed, that's what I
intended in the first place.
Have you used the acrylic sizing for gum? If so, what dilution do you
recommend, 1:6 or higher?
Clay
on 6/15/02 3:16 AM, Katharine Thayer at kthayer@pacifier.com wrote:
> Hi Clay,
> Unfortunately your acrylic medium was way too concentrated. It seems
> like most of the sources suggest 1:4 but I find it works better
> significantly more dilute than that.
>
> As for removing it-- that's iffy. I found when painting in acrylic that
> isopropyl alcohol would soften acrylic and allow some of it to be
> lifted, but to take it all off I think you'd have to soak the whole
> print in the alcohol for quite a while. Good luck,
> Katharine
>
>
> Clay Harmon wrote:
>>
>> To all you gumaholics:
>>
>> I recently tried to size some gumover platinum prints after the platinum
>> print stage and before the gum stage with liquitex matte medium sizing
>> diluted 1:1 with distilled water, in response to problems I've been having
>> with glyoxal yellowing with gelatin sizing.
>>
>> Synopsis: Disaster.
>>
>> The gum layer just slide right off into the the water when I developed it.
>> The matte medium behaved like teflon when it came to gum. I guess the bright
>> side is that there was certainly no staining - of anything!
>>
>> Now, the question is: Is there any good way to get rid of the medium matte
>> sizing and re-size with gelatin? Or am I stuck with some straight platinum
>> prints?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Clay
>
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