Double coating

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March 11, 2012

allcolorlightblog-blog asked: wondering about double coating large gum prints with emulsion+pigment…waiting for first application to dry, then recoating. have you ever tried? does it sound like it would work or do you think that the pigment will fall out of the print?

I haven’t tried double coating.  My sense is that it wouldn’t work as the second coat wouldn’t have anything to hold onto except the unexposed layer underneath and would most likely wash out when developed.  Let me know if you have any success.

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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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