Carmen,
Your best bet is to get the chemicals to wipe off the Sharpie marks.
Buy that from an office supply store. Your gum should be able to
withstand that.
If you do want to reprint, you probably need to wait till the paper is
free of the gelatin hardening agent, whatever it is. I have no
experience with either of the ones you are using, but when I was
hardening with formaldehyde, I had to wait for days before using the
paper. Otherwise the gum gets all hardened as well - just like what
occurred to yours.
The third way to resolve this problem is to show it as it is - and to
claim, as some of my students would say, "I wanted it that way - ain't
I a genius?!"
Good luck.
Sam Wang
On Aug 6, 2006, at 5:19 PM, Carmen Lizardo wrote:
>
> Okay, so I have to deliver this print by tomorrow to
> this gallery, and my two year old took a sharpie and
> made a masterpiece out of it…the wonders of
> parenthood…
>
> So I started to make another one, but lord and behold,
> I didn’t have any more sized paper. I decided not to
> panic, and thought that if I work quickly I could size
> a couple of sheets to get me through…but I ran out of
> glyoxal, I started to get teary eyes, when I remember
> I had a bottle of black magic hardener (LPP 92/LPE
> 520), which I read on this list, was Gluthardhyde. I
> added 6ml to my 1000 ml of gelatin, coated my paper,
> waited anxiously for it to dry, proceeded to apply my
> first coat of magenta and exposed, but the print never
> develop. Even with a hard water hose nothing washed
> off. I tried this several times, just to make sure,
> and all I have are large magenta rectangles. Its like
> the sizing is holding the pigment in. I even put an
> unexposed (but coated) piece of paper in the water and
> the pigment did not released. And just to make sure
> that the problem was not in the emulsion I coated a
> piece of paper that was hardened in glyoxal and that
> cleared!
> What am I doing wrong? I really need to finish this
> print and my glyoxal is not going to get here on
> time…. Maybe I am not using the black magic hardener
> correctly?
>
> Thank you,
> Carmen
>
>
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