Re: media for oil prints

Gordon,

My experience is with lithography not oil prints, but yes you can use three
colors to mix your pallet. The only problem with the magenta, cyan, yellow
inks is that they are made for commercial printing and are usually less
permanent colors than the art lithography inks from people like Daniel
Smith.

Jack

> From: "Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtsg@duke.usask.ca>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:10:30 -0600
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: media for oil prints
>
> Have had a little time to play with oil prints.
>
> I tried modifying an oil pigment by adding calcium carbonate. Put some
> pigment on a tile added a bit of calcium carbonate and worked them
> together with a putty knife.
>
> I ended up with a sort of powdery pigment that would not differentiate
> between the wet and dry portions on the oil print.
>
> Did I add to much calcium carbonate?
>
> Are there any other things that can be used to increase the body of the
> ink - or rather make the ink less sticky so that it will differeniate
> between the wet and dry parts of the print?
>
> David Lewis offers a clay based stiffening powder - is anyone familiar
> with this?
> http://www.bromoil.com/supplies.htm#Lewis%20Pigments
>
> I am just looking for a way to have a variety of colors to use on oil
> prints. Could I just buy Red Blue and Green litho inks and use these to
> mix the colors I need? or should I use cyan, magenta and yellow?
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gord
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Received on 06/19/06-08:00:37 AM Z