Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "culturalvisions" 
<frank@c...> wrote:
> I've tried the waxes with my platinum and silver prints and was 
> not impressed, but that could have been the photographs' 
> problem. 


Speaking of wax, I'll relay a depressing story: I went out to this 
gallery yesterday afternoon and saw this show with my prints. I'll 
get to my prints later....

But this one guy did oil on canvas, and then he "dipped" the 
whole framed print, maybe 8x10", into I assume, a vat of wax. It 
was super thick built up, maybe a quarterinch or halfinch thick, 
but you could still see the image very plainly; it was not milky. 
They were gorgeous.

Mine seemed to suffer from metamerism. They were too 
magenta. From now on, I think I'll take a Minolta color meter to 
the gallery and read the light, and then duplicate that somehow 
in my office, in order to judge the print in its intended space. 
(They were made with Gen4 pigments).

Secretly, in the last two days, I've been printing on MediaStreet 
canvas, and I"m LOVING it. I'm applying ageing varnish onto the 
canvas, and it takes two thick coats, but it's very pretty. I love the 
idea of NOT  having to baby the surface, like you do with 
standard photo paper. My rep hates it, because I'm drifting off 
into "starving artist" mentality, and playing 80's Ramones music, 
and not showering. (Should I "up" my medication?)

The image I'm printing I stuck on the front of my site:

http://marktucker.com

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