Gum Printing – What is a droper Stem

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Tony

Way back on 21 Feb 2012 you explained your pigment/gum/sensitzer ratios. In that description you mentioned  you use and inch of pigment to 12 dropper stems of gum and sensitizer.  How many ml is a 12 dropper stem? What is this dropper stem?  Is it a small eyedropper or something else?

The dropper stem is the what I use to distribute the solution.   I don’t know how many ml is in the dropper stem I use but I use as much solution of either gum or sensitizer as the stem of the dropper can hold. The ratio is more important than the actual amount. The post from January 25, 2012 has photos of the dropper bottle and stem:

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Tony Gonzalez is an artist currently living in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from Yale University. In addition to working as a fine art photographer, Gonzalez has taught photography for 30 years including at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and New York University. Since 2002, Gonzalez has been teaching full-time at Queens College, CUNY and is currently a Tenured Professor and Deputy Chair of the Photography & Imaging program. Gonzalez is a contributing author for The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition and Third Edition by Christopher James and is featured most recently in the news book Gum Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson and Alternate Processes in Photography by Brian Arnold.

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