From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 01/15/03-11:20:22 PM Z
Christina, That was from me, so could we please have credit for the
Wednesday home section of the NY Times, which I think is insufficiently
appreciated on this list. Thanks for testing it -- now I'll
have to get some too.
My hunch, BTW, if it changed the color of the cyanotype, is that it's
alkaline, some kind of ammonia substance in it. But usually that deeper
richer blue from ammonia fades back to "normal" when the print has fully
dried, in a couple of days. So hope you'll watch it.
Meanwhile, it may not be "just" acrylic, or whatever, as some folks
suggest... At least the "regular" acrylic brushed on that I tried didn't
change depth more than a tiny tad. Have you tried it on gum? that's the
killer -- hardest to get any good effect. And, for the record, I found
gelatin did NOT help -- gave a kind of diffuse glassy look as a top coat
that was definitely ugly.
Judy
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> 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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