From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 03/13/03-04:02:54 PM Z
Katharine,
About 10 years ago we had our semiannual Platypus Party at our home which
was then in California. There was a dozen or so platinum printers who had
gathered in the back studio chewing the fat. Paper was the topic which will
surprise no one. Everyone, well almost everyone, agreed you couldn't make
pt prints on Galerie 100 and nom one said otherwise. The late John Rudiak
was across from me and winked as he open his portfolio. He pulled out a set
of absolutely gorgeous pt prints on Galerie 100.
End of story.
--Dick
At 10:57 AM 3/13/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Richard Sullivan wrote:
> >
> >
> > Over the years we have had to contend with the Holy Grailers. These are
> > people who have worked out a way to make prints that works for them. Good!
> > But they take it one step further and proclaim it is the >>ONLY<< way to
> > make the prints.
>
>I've said many times that printing gum is not difficult. What makes it
>seem difficult is when someone sets him or herself up as an authority
>and tries to set down the Truth of Gum Printing, then we run into all
>kinds of arguments and disagreements that must seem confusing to
>beginners. As Dave said so eloquently, no one has the ultimate answer
>for gum printing, and just about any categorical statement anyone makes
>about gum printing will be contradicted with equal confidence by another
>accomplished gum printer. I rather suspect that no two of us are doing
>quite the same process and that in order to reduce confusion, we should
>probably each refer to our own particular technique with a different
>name so as not to confuse people into assuming we're all doing the same
>thing. While the fundamentals are the same for all, and easy to learn,
>the particulars of what works are different for everyone, and the
>variables respond so differently in different combinations, as well as
>different aesthetic goals calling for somewhat different techniques,
>that any narrow set of instructions simply isn't going to work for
>everyone, or even for some of the people all of the time .
>Katharine Thayer
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