Re: Update

That was "It was a very..."

Not "I was a very big..."

Sounds weird.

I think I will have to time to explore various carbon variations now that
things are smoothing out.

It is one thing to make tissue it is another to do it efficiently! And I
can say one thing; I have learned a lot about bubbles, gelatin, pigment and
all that implies.

--Dick

At 11:35 AM 12/11/2004, you wrote:
>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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