Baren Digest Monday, 5 February 2001 Volume 14 : Number 1309 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sunnffunn@aol.com Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 17:11:11 EST Subject: [Baren 13265] clean up - a question about paper usage Loving the veggie oil clean up. But don't do what I did, be sure your plate is free of the oil before you reprint it. Forgot the windex or soap step on the plate ooops. I rolled it up and though it rolled a bit strangely I thought well it will dilute out and be fine. Not so, the ink is diluted by the oil and in only one small area I got a bleed through, a ruined print. I finished my series today. This is an interesting paper that I am using. It has specks or even parts and pieces of plant in it. These come off when I print and I have had to clean the plate after each print. Actually I have scraped it with my printing knife, not totally cleaned it. This paper is very thin and delicate. It has a very interesting nature and surface. Hard to use, but truly beautiful. When I pulled one of my prints I noticed there is a small hole in the paper. The paper was not torn, ripped or seemingly damaged in any way. It appears the hole is the way this part of the larger sheet came. I was thinking I could put this aside and consider it akin to the print and the paper and keep the print, as all else is fine. It is a unique paper and there are places on my prints where specks of ink have been removed by pulling the print (where the plant stuff came loose) and this too seems part of the print and the process and the beauty of this paper. So it is consistent, but has incosistancies. If that makes sense. The question is do you agree that if this hole seems to have been there from the beginning and be part of the paper itself then the print is fine and I should just keep it as part of the series? Am I fretting too much? I do like things right. Oh also when cleaning plates I found scraping with my knife removes quite a lot of ink and can be done as part of the clean up process. I was considering using this print for the open exchange. But seems not many have been submitted since August????? That is 5 months, is this exchange poplular enough to do? Marilynn ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest v14 #1309 *****************************