Digital BW, The Print

The ONLY thing that truly lasts for hundreds of years are oil paintings, watercolors, guaches, and temperas painted with non fugitive
pigments (Mostly earth colors) and charcoal, chalk, or silverpoint/pencil drawings. And how would we even know if our works didn't fade? We
sure won't be around to see it.  How do we know that the old watercolors and oil paintings haven't faded from when they were painted? You
can clean an old oil painting, and it may look like it was painted yesterday, but how do we know it hasn't shifted colors?  We Don't!

Jerry




Paul Roark wrote:

> Cathy Van Berg wrote:
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> >... it has been well established in the Piezo3000 group that Epson
> >Archival Matte is not Archival at all.  There was much discussion
> >...it is important to me that all my work be as acid free as possible...
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> There has been more discussion than evidence, I fear.  Also, the "green"
> problem of Piezo on EAM is, in my view, not a problem of the paper.
>
> I would also feel better if EAM clearly indicated a basic (acid free) pH
> with my acid test pen.  However, there appears to be a lot more to the
> science than what these marking pens will show.  When newsprint tests out as
> better than my archivally-processed silver prints, and I see no correlation
> between acidity and light-fastness, it makes me wonder if these cheap pens
> have any value at all.
>
> At any rate, I continue to think that color shifting and fading are more of
> a problem than what happens several hundred years from now.  So far, among
> the papers I've tested, EAM seems to be the best in terms of light fastness,
> at least for relatively pure pigment inksets like the MIS archival inks.
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com
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