From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 06/15/02-09:16:25 AM Z
Not that this is going to help you now, but a former student used 1:10
dilution of medium and it worked great. She resized with it after several
coats. Once acrylic is on there I think it's there to stay. Could you sand
it (gasp) and give it some tooth? No, that sounds like a bad idea...
cza
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Harmon" <wcharmon@wt.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: Experiment gone awry
> 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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