Re: gum dot test - Crawford

I have read the archives re the dot test and do realise many people have
different views, and I I know the discussion has got overheated. I hope my
question does not fuel another argument. I want to do the test using all the
pigments I own on the only paper I intend to use for gum that is preshrunk
and sized in the way I would use for printing. I may well be wasting my
time, it's just I need to do it :) sorta a part of my gum initiation, it may
or may not help me.

All i'm asking really is what weight would be a starting point for the
initial 8ml gum. If anyone can help but would rather contact me off list
thats fine. Addy is john@glossyormatt.com.

Thanks

John.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: gum dot test - Crawford

> This list is great for putting things in perspective. I've been thinking
> for the last few days that having a friend in the hospital severely
> injured because of a bad accident she had in a car I had sold her
> earlier that day was pretty bad (if I've seemed especially distracted or
> muddled lately, that would be why) but then I log on and realize things
> could actually be worse: there could be another round of the pigment
> test war.
>
> BTW, to be perfectly clear, the car didn't actually have anything to do
> with the accident, other than that it was a very small car and she was
> probably hurt worse than she would have been if her boyfriend had been
> driving her BMW under the influence and crashed into a bridge abutment.
> But still, at a time like this, one thinks about how things might have
> been different if one had done different things, like remember the rule
> never to sell a car to a friend.
>
> No, I'm not going to say anything about the pigment test; I know when
> I'm well off.
>
> Katharine
>
>
> Giovanni Di Mase wrote:
>>
>> You may want to loose a tube by empting it and weighting.
>> Giovanni
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: John Brewer
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 7:23 PM
>> Subject: gum dot test - Crawford
>>
>> Hello list
>>
>> I'm about to do the dot test en masse as on page 211 in
>> Keepers of the Light. Watercolour pigment is given in length
>> of 3.8cm or 1 1/2" but there is no mention of tube weight.
>> Pigments I want too test range from 5ml (0.17 US fl oz) to
>> 37ml (1.25 US fl oz) and the exit holes of the tubes vary in
>> diameter, so a 3.8cm length doesn't mean much. Can anyone
>> enlighten me on either the tube weight Crawford used or give
>> me a sample weight as a starting point.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> John.
Received on Fri Aug 5 12:44:48 2005