From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 04/24/03-08:34:02 PM Z
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Darryl Baird wrote:
> Mike, Cyanotype is way too easy to wait for sources of RTP papers.
>
> Just order the chemistry RTC (ready to coat) and some cotton fiber
> paper - try Cranes (at good stationery stores) or Strathmore Bristol
> Drawing (at Michaels' or MJD designs or another art supply store). A
> foam brush from Home Depot (Gee this is sounding like an advertisement)
> and you are in business.
There's also the fact that if the paper has been sitting on the shelf for
a while, as it often has, the d-max will be low -- giving a pale imitation
of a cyanotype, as it were...
That readymade paper is a fine kindergarten or afterschool project, but
bears little relation to making an actual photograph.
Judy
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