T-Rex,
Your point was that "all this stuff was is quite unnecessary in making gum
prints"
Could you define "stuff"? :)
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In a message dated 7/14/06 1:02:40 AM, TERRYAKING@aol.com writes:
> Mark
>
> Pretty language but you miss the point entirely.
>
> The point was was, and the point remains, that all this stuff is quite unnec
> essary in making gum prints.
>
> I would not bother about it but some poor beginner may think that much of
> this fuss about nothing, propounded, to use you word, in such a
> pontificating manner, is likely to be any use beyond the requirements of the 'anorak'.
>
> Your comment
>
> . Gum prints can be modified by additional layers of gum and/or heavy work
> with a fire hose, weed whacker or brillo pad.
>
>
> missed the point that I am making that the methods I suggest lead to
> creative and beautiful prints in far less time and with far less effort. The
> princples remain the same; they are just applied more effectively.
>
> Now if you want to have development tine measured in hours rather than
> minutes or seconds, and sixteen coats, rather than one two or three, that is up
> to you. If you want to use colours that make anyone with a sensitive eye,
> wince, that is up to you.
>
> But it is surely good for the health of gum printing, to point out, from
> time to time, that there are other ways of doing it that lead to results that
> are, at the very least, as good.
>
> Terry
>
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