Re: Wet vs. Dry

Loris

I do use quadtone inks as well as pigment inks and at times special
laquers for ink jets. The results are excellent. Perhaps it is my
personal preference. I am a painter and wet techniques are perhaps
closer to the ethos of painting. One could argue either way but I do
think that Andy Schmitt has a very important point that was also
pointed out to me by a gallery that has just taken on my work;
collectors want to know that their print is something special and
individual, sure it takes skill and a great deal of time to set up an
image for digital printing but the clincher is that everyone knows that
from then on it just takes a press of a button to print however many
copies you want. Serious collectors still want the hand made. Perhaps
in the future people will have forgotten wet techniques and all those
born after the 1990s will consider a digital print as most of us now
see wet techniques marvelling at the patina achieved with an Epson 2200
and, 'you can't get pico dots like that today, everything's way too
smooth and perfect…", while they go back to forming an image of the
moons of alpha centuri in their mind for projection through their front
lobe onto a holographic image shaper. :-)

Alexis
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Received on Tue Nov 29 23:27:58 2005