Re: Help with what I believe is a hardening issue

I have being reading this thread and seems to me that there is a major
confusion.
The purpose of hardening is to the gel not to the paper.
The gel is going to carry the pigment colors meaning the image, obviously
the gel is on top of the paper but it can be on top of anything.
Does anyone disagree with me?
Giovanni

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Subject: Re: Help with what I believe is a hardening issue

> Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
> >
> > Wrom: CDDJBLVLMHAALPTCXLYRWTQTIPWIGYO
> > Subject: Re: Help with what I believe is a hardening issue
> > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:42:02 -0500
> >
> > > While it is convenient, IMO the downside of it is that the paper
> > > surface quality is lost under the size. You are printing on paint
> > > rather than paper once gesso is used.
> >
> > Tom and Joe: does it mean that if you coat cold press paper with
> > gesso, you'll get a surface as smooth as baby's ass to print on?
> > (please confirm)
>
>
> I'm not Tom or Joe, but certainly with a couple coats of straight
> (undiluted) gesso applied with a spatula on canvas, you can get a
> surface so smooth that it completely obscures the weave of the cloth. So
> I don't know why you couldn't get that smooth a surface on cold press
> paper with gesso. I don't think you would be able to print gum on it,
> but I doubt that's your interest anyway.
>
>
> kt
>
Received on Fri Nov 12 12:18:13 2004