Re: Great gum prints

From: Katharine Thayer <kthayer_at_pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:47:28 -0700
Message-id: <5820B02B-6D6B-45D2-A44A-365681100EB2@pacifier.com>

On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Dan Burkholder wrote:

> Good grief, that is a slow loader! Maybe he was trying to give you a
> real-time experience as in, "this is how long it takes to make each
> print."

Funny... well, maybe it was a cognitive dissonance thing; I waited so
long for them, that I had to think they were pretty great, to make it
seem like I hadn't wasted my time. :--) But actually, while I don't
think they are all equally wonderful, there are among them some of
the better gum prints I've seen. A portrait of a man, fairly far
down on the page, is my favorite, but I also like a number of the
florals, as you say, especially one of apple or cherry blossoms at
the bottom of the page, and a calla lily just above it, and I like
some of the architectural ones as well. I'm speaking from a technical
standpoint, not so much of the images themselves.

>
> Yes, I too like the images (at least the ones that have loaded so far;
> I'll check again in a few hours) except for the first landscape (maybe
> it's hard to do those colors in gum
> and the picture of the child
> (children are not automatically of interest to others). And since that
> print is mono, why do it in gum?

Why not, if you can? Besides, it has a quality that you wouldn't get
from a different process.

Katharine
Received on 07/25/06-05:44:46 PM Z

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