Digital BW, The Print

Great info Mark:

I smell a canvas print exchange somewhere in the future.  I mean that 
literally, with all the crazy coatings!

-Andy Darlow

<< I'm loving playing around with these sprays on this MediaStreet 
canvas. Here's the status report:

When the liquid varnish hits the canvas, it immediately shifts the 
color pretty greenish. So this last version, I did Levels in the 
green channel, and made the print VERY magenta. When the 
varnish hit it, it pulled it back pretty much where I wanted it 
(neutral). This is using Gen4 inks in a 7000.

I guess if you got into it, you could profile it by printing out the 
black chips, then varnish the canvas, then send it out to be read. 
You couldn't judge the prints til they'd been varnished, but it 
would be pretty darn close.

I got a spray by Blair (gloss), and Grumbacher (gloss), and 
Krylon TripleCoat (gloss); all aerosols. Then this brushon by 
Weber called Synvar (oilbase); that's my favorite; it richens the 
blacks and dries matte, after a coat or even two. Another good 
one for effect was Ageing Varnish, but it was VERY yellow/green 
after two coats. But neat for something; just don't know what.

Now what to do with the canvas: stretch it on a frame like a 
painting, or just mat it like a photograph? Or dip it in wax! >>