From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 09/10/02-01:46:40 PM Z
Along with Stuart's work, if your interest is in SHARP, please visit
Stephen Livick's website... www.livick.com
sharp, detailed, LARGE and hard to believe they are gum...
-Darryl
Ender100@aol.com wrote:
> Katherine,
> I can't speak with any authority until Sam Wang stops laughing at my attempts
> at gum printing. I would be interested, if you would be willing to share,
> what paper you found worked best for sharp gum prints. Also, I have found
> the digital negatives look pretty sharp and detailed on platinum. Do you
> think they are not so with gum? If so, any idea why that would be?
>
> Mark Nelson
> "Went South With The Geese and Flew Home Alone"
>
> In a message dated 9/10/02 2:45:20 PM, kthayer@pacifier.com writes:
>
> << Last winter, needing to make a change in gum printing paper (due to a
> change for the worse in the paper I was using, combined with a direction
> in my own work that called for more smoothness and subtlety than the hot
> press watercolor paper I'd been using could provide) I ran dozens of
> test gum prints, contact printing from a 4x5 negative containing very
> fine detail. I was even surprised at the fineness of detail that the gum
> could hold from a small contact print, and I've never been one to argue
> that gum can't do detail. The limiting factor was the paper, not the
> gum. >>
>
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