Re: Casein and acrylic paint

Loris,

There is no fault at work here distance learning tends to be a bit fudgy at
best it is the nature of the beast. You should have come back to me. If at
first you don¹t succeed try try again (an old English saying).
You wont get anywhere by skipping from process to process there is no easy
magic alternative process. They are all hard work even cyanotype, and the
dichromated colloid ones are very tetchy. I talk from thirty years
experience both as a practitioner and teacher.

Your problem (not fault) is you did not get the pigment egg mix right in
the first place, I suspect your primary egg mix was too watery. However you
could have kept on printing and given it 10 coats 15 coats you would have
got there eventually. The problem is not that the print is to light this can
be solved !when it goes to DARK then you have real problems.

It is possible to do one coat one colour with my process but it is difficult
to get perfectly even coating. I use a basic two coat per colour system and
perhaps three for the final black printer depending on the picture
aesthetic. So with a normal CMYK print I use 8 or 9 coats with a known image
I can complete a print in two to three hours.However I have done done up to
thirty coats on rare occasions.

I will send you one of my recent images off list entitled DEVIL PIG, which
Iam pleased with that had ten coats CMYK.

Regards
Pete

> Hi Pete,
>
> Don't know what Guido will say but the idea of a fully defined color
> photo in just 3 or 4 coats is attracting... With Temperaprint, I
> couldn't manage to get enough density even with 5 coats of a single
> color (my fault I presume)...
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pete [mailto:temperaprint@blueyonder.co.uk]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:50 PM
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: Re: Casein and acrylic paint
>>
>>
>> Guido,
>>
>> Why bother with casein when you can use egg? I have now
>> ...
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 31 10:45:31 2004