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Message 1
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:02:22 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37723] Re: Cannonball Press Show/ stretched canvas prints
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Annie,
Cold wax is like the wax you put on hardwood floors and buff to a shine, but it is a lot more pure for our use. It looks like translucent solid milk in the can. There are two brands that I know of, Doreland's and Gamblin. I used Gamblin since it is made in Portland and I actually called Robert Gamblin and asked for advise when I could not get it to dry in a decent time. A friend and fellow artist worked with Gamblin to do some kind of a mixture of cold wax and alkyd and I think a third thing. It dried overnight but I could see the brush marks so never tried it myself.
My best
Barbara




>Barbara, what great info you've provided on ways to mount prints onto other materials. A question -- what's cold wax?
>Sounds intriguing. Is there a brand name that everyone uses? Sorry to hear that your workshop was cancelled, but glad
>you didn't have to travel in the bad weather. Enjoy your white holidays!

>Annie

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Message 2
From: Lana Lambert
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:33:32 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37724] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V45 #4647 (Dec 23, 2008)
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Thanks guys! I knew that everybody would enlighten me! That is amazing to get that sort of clarity from printing on canvas! They must have their system down tight.
I love xerox transfers. They are the poor man's litho. I have a vandercook though and I've never experimented with trying it on the press. I don't know if I could get enough pressure.
I get what everyone is saying about cold wax and media sealing but I want people to be able to see the paper fibers glisten in the light so that is out. I was thinking of laminating a print to an ungessoed canvas and then steaming the back to tighten everything up. I know that those differing flex rates are going to be a nightmare. And yes, I am willing to bet some idiot will smear chocolate on it. Ugh. The public. Anyway, if all else fails I could always frame the old fashioned way but I was hoping to let the print be viewed up close and personal. I was hoping to mount it within a thick dark wood frame but the dowel/scroll hanging is sounding more and more appealing! Now, if I could just solve choco-fingers....

-Lana

P.S. I was chatting with an art friend in North Carolina who said he had a show in which people actually splashed coffee on his acrylic paintings. It was acrylic and washable but still annoying.

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Message 3
From: eli griggs
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:41:37 GMT
Subject: [Baren 37725] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V45 #4647 (Dec 23, 2008)
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At a local crawl, not that long ago, I watched as a
woman/patron of the arts stick her finger in her mouth
to moisten it and then try to rub off what she must
have thought was a smudge off a painting. Still
LOL...;-)

Eli

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Subject: Morning Images
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