"Have been liking some qualities of the way acrylic coating applies to fine art papers, will see what happens with that. Beats the heck out of facemount on plex, which is just plain soulless.
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Bill,
I come from fine art. Worked in every medium. Digital is great in fine tuning colors, working on different sizes. I'm new to Canvas printing. Tried a small roll of Epson Exhibition Canvas Matte Natural. I liked it but not much of a fabric surface. I do like the Matte. I have on order a 44" roll of the Matte Canvas, regular. I have a lot of very saturated colors, reds etc. I know I can't get the same color space as glossy but I need to see how to get the most with these surfaces.
I like the effect an artist uses with say a burnt umber oil paint applied on the edges then hand wiped leaving a patina of age in the corners. Its usually not one application. It taker some time and coats to build depth.
I've worked with encaustics. essentially bees wax with Damar crystals dissolved in it. Applied with head. It has a wonderful appearance. It may be crazy, but when I get some white refined bees wax i will try that again. I has dome encaustic medium I applied to 100% cotton rag paper. It was too heavy and not as translucent as I'd like.
The beauty of wax, is it can be reworked. Polished like a car finish, and even rubbed with fine steel wool to get a very nice satin effect.
Encaustic is compatible with oils, so these processes could be combined.
Bill, do you have a site, I'd love to see what you are working on.
Thanks!
Its kind of cool that these natural resins, Damar, Shellac, Bees wax etc, come from trees and insects. It kind of brings these art pieces a bit back to earth. Less zeros and ones:-)