Digital BW, The Print

John Moody wrote:

> John,
> Are you saying it\ufffds not possible for a reasonably intelligent person 
> to take
> the 4-day Black and White Digital Fine Print workshop (K7) at Cone\ufffds and
> produce gallery quality prints from artist\ufffds files in a very short time?
>
I've taken the Cone course. It was excellent - the best four day 
workshop I've taken (from say 10 or 12 over the years) on *any* subject. 
Jon is an excellent teacher and his staff is first rate.

But, four days doesn't make you an expert print maker. Jon can teach a 
whole bunch and expose you to lots of tools and techniques, and tell you 
when some of the tools are appropriate. His course cuts a big chunk out 
of the learning curve, but it doesn't, and can't, eliminate it.

There are subtleties involved that you can't understand without doing 
the work and experimenting with different techniques.

You can go into Jon's course knowing nothing and come out a good print 
maker. But to be an excellent print maker you've got to make a lot more 
prints. There is no substitute for experience.
--
Bruce Watson