Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Nick, What kind of brayer did you use?
> Paul (www.PaulRoark.com )

You can find  it here:

http://www.dickblick.com/zz401/12/products.asp?param=0&ig_id=3588

What you really want is the speedball foam brayer, but the funny thing
is they only sell the foam roller as a refill and buy the handle
separately if you can. The speedball foam roller is much better than
other brands that I know due to its texture. It will produce foam but
much less than the other brands.

You can probably get by with not using the airbrush at all. Once the
print has cured for a certain period of time, you can carefully load
the roller with the liquid diluted with distilled water as suggested
by the manufacturer, then quickly run it over the print. Don't worry
about uneveness because you can do this multiple times. The idea is
you apply so gently so no ink will get lifted off. Once you got an
initial layer to seal the print you're in good shape. After that you
can be a little rough on it.

The time between these thin coats can be as little as 15 minutes. So
you can take turn coating several prints at a time. But startup and
cleanup is so easy even coating of a single small print is not much
hassle, and not much waste (as compared to the coating rods).

Another nice thing about acrylic coating is you can touch up your
prints using acrylic paint on top of the coating. If you make a
mistake you can wipe it off when it's still wet. There's so much more
I can talk about my technique but I'm sure you'll discover your
process in a short time.

--nick