Paper Makes a Difference
I've been working on a new print for the last week or so. On Friday, I printed a proof after doing a round of soft ground, but it really didn't come out as well as I was hoping. After spending the weekend trying to figure out what went wrong, I decided to try printing on a different kind of paper. The one on the left was the first try, printed on Lenox. The one on the right was printed on Fabriano Murillo...
Where the soft ground work barely shows up on the first version, the second version (with no alterations to the matrix, I should add) came out much richer. Just by printing on a different kind of paper (and I'm not judging Lenox - I've had very good luck with that paper in the past), this print went from "what the Hell do I do now" to "basically done." To really see the difference, click through on the image to my Flickr page, where there is a much larger image to see.
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hey Clay - oh yes -- you know I have learned this same lesson ( a couple of times.) Murillo really does rock tonal qualities. I am glad that you tried another paper before going to all sorts of other trouble. Now - if only some of the other "what the hell do I do now" problems were so easily resolved. Powerful image.
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Thanks Patricia. It' was a relief to find an easy fix - but now I have a bit more work to do on the ceiling. Better than a complete overhaul though!
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What a difference! Thanks for showing that. Great image.
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Thanks, Amie!
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