Digital BW, The Print

mark,
it is absolutely stunning! Where are you? i want to se it in person!
trish

p.s.
don't touch the meds!!!!!




> From: "mtucker508" <mark@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:51:16 -0000
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Beyond the name: selling prints/print quality of old
> vs new
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "culturalvisions"
> <frank@c...> wrote:
>> I've tried the waxes with my platinum and silver prints and was
>> not impressed, but that could have been the photographs'
>> problem. 
> 
> 
> Speaking of wax, I'll relay a depressing story: I went out to this
> gallery yesterday afternoon and saw this show with my prints. I'll
> get to my prints later....
> 
> But this one guy did oil on canvas, and then he "dipped" the
> whole framed print, maybe 8x10", into I assume, a vat of wax. It
> was super thick built up, maybe a quarterinch or halfinch thick,
> but you could still see the image very plainly; it was not milky.
> They were gorgeous.
> 
> Mine seemed to suffer from metamerism. They were too
> magenta. From now on, I think I'll take a Minolta color meter to
> the gallery and read the light, and then duplicate that somehow
> in my office, in order to judge the print in its intended space.
> (They were made with Gen4 pigments).
> 
> Secretly, in the last two days, I've been printing on MediaStreet
> canvas, and I"m LOVING it. I'm applying ageing varnish onto the
> canvas, and it takes two thick coats, but it's very pretty. I love the
> idea of NOT  having to baby the surface, like you do with
> standard photo paper. My rep hates it, because I'm drifting off
> into "starving artist" mentality, and playing 80's Ramones music,
> and not showering. (Should I "up" my medication?)
> 
> The image I'm printing I stuck on the front of my site:
> 
> http://marktucker.com
> 
> .
> 
> 
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