Digital BW, The Print

At 10:20 AM 3/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> Bob,
>> That is my next project too.  I saw some ink jet portraits in the
>Cleveland
>> Art Museum (in their collection!) that used hand-tinted rag paper. Very
>good
>> looking. I printed some ink jet over light washes on Arches paper and they
>> show promise.  A friend just did some incredibly beautiful ink jet prints
>on
>> water color paper using color inks to print b/w. He ran the fresh prints
>> under running water selectively washing out and blending.
>>
>> I think being overly focused on achieving replicas of traditional
>> photographic techniques may hinder development of a new ink jet aesthetic.
>>
>> AZ
>
>The strategy I'm thinking about...
>
>Print reversed image (mirror image) full size.
>
>Place image under plexiglass plate
>and maybe on a light table....as a guide to painting on the plate.
>
>Apply washes / tones to areas based on the print underneath.
>
>Print monotype image from the plate.
>
>Let dry.
>
>Re-Adjust image in photoshop (move toward hi-key and open up I would guess)
>
>Run monotype thru the inkjet...
>
>The issue with many inks (createx water based for example)
>is the paper must be wet to lift the image from the
>monotype plate... then when it dries unless you have huge weight
>on paper while drying  - its too wrinked to pass thru the printer.
>
>With the akua-color inks they lift off onto dry paper
>giving you a smooth surface to then injet print.
>
>Thanks
>Bob Obenland
>
>
>

Bob,
Sounds like a winner if you can keep a nice ink density on the final print.
I have a vague recollection of a woman artist that was doing something like
that. She was doing a lot wetter technique on rice paper or something. Might
have been in one of the PhotoShop books. 

AZ