RE: prints on wood

Adam,

    More years ago than I would like to admit, I did several prints on wood.
I used several different
kinds of light wood suck as maple, pine and holly. Maple is pretty close
grain so I did not size it but I used a gelatin size on the other two woods.
In my case I did a lot of sanding on the wood blocks wity finer and finer
sandpaper untill the surface was as smooth as a baby's bottom. Later I tried
using some rougher textures. I worked with cyanotype and platinotype. I
remember orienting the neg so that the grain of the wood complemented the
images. I don't recall any problems doing
this. I know very little about liquid light but my guess would be you would
have to heavily size the wood first.

Good luck,

Bob Schramm
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  http://www.SchrammStudio.com

>From: "Adam. Waterson" <artistboi@speakeasy.net>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: prints on wood
>Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:25:58 -0500
>
>We had an ice storm in GA like a month or so ago, and it ruined 4 of
>my big fall evergreens. In cutting them down, I've realized that
>the bark peels away like plastic wrap, so I now have sheets of bark
>drying. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations as far as
>how long to let the bark dry, anything to prepare it with? Its a
>beautiful pearl white right now, and I'd love it if that color
>didn't dry down to sappy brown.
>
>Also, what to use to print on the surface, i know u can use liquid
>light, but i'm more into silver nitrate prints, will the silver need
>a gum layer to stick, like perhaps an albumen coating around the
>surface of the wood.
>
>Cheers
>Adam
>
>Thanks for your thoughts
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 9 20:52:36 2005