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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Cyano-no-no (What not to do)

In the Printmaking studio today attempting to make more 22x22 inch prints and it is taking a long, long time.  I coated a piece of Rives BFK with 30mL of solution and placed it in front of a fan to dry...BIG mistake on my part. The paper dried so fast that the solution didn't have time to sink into the paper - I didn't find this out until after the fact though.  Then, after I exposed it, for 38 minutes mind you, and went to wash it, like I always do, basically all of the cyanotype solution washed off leaving hardly an image on the paper.  If I continued to rinse it for any longer the image would have disappeared leaving the paper white...

Rives BFK with 30mL of solution exposed for 38 minutes


Kinda irritating.  I coated another piece and am currently waiting for it to dry (without the fan) so I can expose the image for 40 more minutes.

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