“Nothing New Here…”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

20130312_0054collagewebSo, as I mentioned in the below post, I went ahead and printed on the Strathmore 140lb, cold pressed watercolor paper. I really like that stuff. I find carrying around the paper in the form of a pad or block to be extremely convenient. With blocks one gets the exact seize. With the Strathmore pads the sheet has to be cut from the spiral binding, and then cut again to get a clean surface. I do miss the torn edges I get with Arches paper, but this is just so much more convenient. The 12″ x 18″ sheets work very well with my 11″ x 17″ OHP transparency negative sheets. Of course, with cold pressed paper, one gets a textured surface, which for me, works well with these images which are ‘rough’ looking to begin with.

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About christian harkness

Photographer and printmaker; living and working in north Florida.
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2 Responses to “Nothing New Here…”

  1. bbylois says:
    March 12, 2013 at 16:59

    Hello christian , I am almost get it what is driven you ( I am exited , really ). I am hungry to see all of it . :) ; The images are so expressive . I remember my first remark , B&W or cyanotype . I was wrong . These kind of expressions requires this type of technique . You homogenize the general and so you enhance the expressions.

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  2. christian harkness says:
    March 13, 2013 at 17:34

    Hi Bart – it is going to be interesting for me to see if Cyanotypes will work with some future work or if the technique really is restrictive to certain types of photos.

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