Re: Update

From: "Richard Sullivan
"I am soon going to make a graphite run.
Old books say it is like a pencil drawing all very midtone gray and silvery.
Anyone done this yet?"

Hello Dick,

This "look" you describe sounds like my first carbon prints. Though I did
have a full range of values, the mid-tones did have a grey-silvery look to
them. I am now only using a tenth of the carbon pigment I did back then.

My off-the-wall explanation for the silvery look was that perhaps it was the
result of light actually bouncing off of the carbon particles in the
geletin. The shadows had too much carbon for the light to penatrate deep
enough to bounce, and the highlights don't have enough carbon for the light
to bounce off of.

I lost that silvery look when I went to lower pigment concentrations (same
pigment), but gained in raised relief -- a fair exchange, but I did like
that silvery look.

Thanks for the update, Dick!

Vaughn

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Received on Sat Dec 11 10:36:22 2004