From: epona (acolyta@napc.com)
Date: 01/14/03-11:55:21 AM Z
Sandy King wrote:
> Epona wrote:
>
> >Woo-hoo!
> >
> >I made my first Argyrotype last night! It's awful, but who cares, I made
> >an image! It was my first hand coated print. I used a glass rod - it
> >came out awfully streaky. Either too little solution was used or the
> >Crane's platinotype was too absorbent - the area at the beginning of the
> >stroke seems "denser" than the other end of the print. And it's
> >terribly flat - I'll have to add another gram of sulfamic acid I fear.
> >This same negative looked good as a POP print.
> >
> >So thanks to everyone on the list, especially Michael Healy and Darryl
> Baird, for their encouragement and advice.
>
> Congratulations on your first hand-coated print! But why would anyone
> want to begin their journey in making hand-coated prints with the
> Argyrotype? Argyrotype is capable of excellent results but it is very
> paper specific and I have found it virtually impossible to get
> acceptable results with the great majority of papers. Cyanotype,
> vandyke or even traditional kallitype would give much more consistent
> results and are useful processes with a wide variety of papers.
>
> Also, my advice would be dump the rod and coat with a hake brush, or
> better, the magical Richeson. The coating rod makes sense for a
> really expensive process like pt/pd but for silver processes it is
> more important to get a fairly thick coating on the paper and avoid
> streaking and I have found it far easier to do this with brushes than
> with a rod.
>
> OK, just my thoughts on the matter and I am sure there are others of
> different mind.
>
> Sandy King
>
> --
Hi Sandy,
Thanks for your thoughts. I went with Argyrotype because, well, I don't
like blue prints, and most of what I heard about the process was positive.
Also I preferred the few Argyrotypes I saw over VD and Kalli. We should
take a poll on which iron process is everyone's favorite.
Can you tell me which Richeson is the so-called "magic brush"? Is it 9010?
Thanks,
Christine
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