From: Ryuji Suzuki (rs@silvergrain.org)
Date: 09/04/03-12:17:58 PM Z
From: Clay Harmon <wcharmon@wt.net>
Subject: Re: coating method
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:24:15 -0500
> I'm not sure exactly what you are doing, but every platinum printer I
> know (including myself) who has picked up the Richeson 9010 wash brush
> has used nothing else after trying it. It is used soaking wet, soaks up
> no extra coating solution, and allows extremely even coats to be laid
> down on the watercolor paper we use. They make a 4 inch wide brush that
> can easily coat sheets of the size you mentioned. check out :
> http://www.artxpress.com/commerce/catalog/
> spcategory.jsp?category_id=1096&czuid=1062695433602
The thing is that I avoided all brushes that had any metal
part. Richeson 9010 seems to have metal part as well...
One thing I like about foam brush is that it doesn't leave any hair on
prints. I washed all my brushes before using for coating, but probably
because my emulsion is very viscous, all brushes left a piece or two
of hair on each print... (My emulsion contains about 90g/L of 225
Bloom gelatin with glutaraldehyde that thickens up and make it more
viscous.)
So, I like to hear any suggestion for non hair-based coating method
suitable for large prints, as well as tips to deal with viscous stuff
with hair-based brushes.
Thanks
-- Ryuji Suzuki "Reality has always had too many heads." (Bob Dylan, Cold Irons Bound, 1997)
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