From: Monnoyer Philippe (monnoyer@imec.be)
Date: 01/15/03-10:48:53 AM Z
Well, to have a glossy finish, one needs to form/coat a uniform flat acrylic layer on top of the image. I guess that acrylic spray gives an acrylic layer so thin that it covers the paper fibers individually, but no flat layer is formed, and so, no glossy surface.
I think I'll use a concentrated archival resin and dilute it to obtain the right finish. Polyester is archival as far as I know, and cheap.
On the other hand, our good old gelatin should work OK too.
Philippe
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
|Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 17:28
|To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
|Subject: Re: Future acrylic floor polish and dmax
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|Yes, Phillippe; I tried the acrylic spray, too (Krylon) and
|there was no
|change in the print. I thought about calling Future and
|finding out exactly
|what is in their floor polish, if they would tell me, but it
|is an acrylic
|finish that can be removed only with ammonia mixed with their
|Floor Cleaner
|stuff. I wonder if it is an acrylic resin?
|Chris
|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Monnoyer Philippe" <monnoyer@imec.be>
|To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
|Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:12 AM
|Subject: RE: Future acrylic floor polish and dmax
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|> I tried acrylic spray for watercolor work on a palladiotype
|printed on
|Arches Platine. No perceptible change in Dmax, no glossy
|finish neither.
|Disappointed.
|> Maybe polyester resin, or acrylic resin for inclusions would
|work. Anybody
|tried ?
|>
|> Philippe
|>
|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
|> |Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 17:05
|> |To: Alt Photo List
|> |Subject: Future acrylic floor polish and dmax
|> |
|> |
|> | 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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