From: Christina Z. Anderson (zphoto@montana.net)
Date: 01/15/03-10:04:45 AM Z
While wading through the 978 messages in my inbox (OHHH, btw, I have to
tell you all that when I went to Japan I brought with me 199pp of single
spaced, 11 pt. type, notes from the alt list and the silver list, and EDITED
them for two weeks into categories, for better retrieval on my part; one of
the tidbits in my notes was this Future floor polish thing. My goal for the
new year is to test cyanotype, van dyke, tintype, salted paper, and gum now
that I have finished testing all the experimental processes I ever need to
and then some...) I took the time to go grocery shopping with my husband and
bought Future acrylic floor finish. He was shocked when I put it in the
cart, I'm sure, thinking I was actually going to do some cleaning (ha), but
for $5 I thought it'd be worth a try, as someone had mentioned that you can
use it to make dried leaves glossy and archival for table decorations and
maybe it had applications to increase dmax of alt prints. So I brushed it
onto an old cyanotype and it was interesting! It did raise the dmax of the
print and gave it a mild gloss, but what it also did was change the color of
the cyanotype away from the warmer turquoise-ish blue that it is normally to
a richer, more navy blue. And it smells good, too. Has anyone else tried
this since the original poster mentioned it?
Chris
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