New Carbon Prints

[Jim Shanesy]

Sandy:

Will you be in Easley around the time school starts? I may be down your way then. I'd love to see some of these prints.

[sanking]

Sandy:

Will you be in Easley around the time school starts? I may be down your way then. I'd love to see some of these prints.

Hi Jim,

Would love to get together and look at prints, yours and mine.

The only conflict I have is August 14-20 as I am going over to Louisiana for a few days to visit with relatives.

Sandy

[polyglot]

Damn all you people posting carbon prints and videos! You're gonna end up costing me a lot of time and money, I just know it.

[Emil Schildt]

Sorry about this but the title does state "New Carbon Prints"....

And I have just made my VERY very first attempt to make my own..

Amazed anything is actually on it...
LOTs of flaws! too gray - some strange artifacts.. frilling...

Who cares?
I made a Carbon Print!!

Must do more - rehearse a lot...

Thanks to Jim for all his nice help..

[Tin Can]

I am glad people post mistakes and early attempts, if we only see perfection, we become discouraged. We=I

Thanks for the honesty!

Sorry about this but the title does state "New Carbon Prints"....

And I have just made my VERY very first attempt to make my own..

Amazed anything is actually on it...
LOTs of flaws! too gray - some strange artifacts.. frilling...

Who cares?
I made a Carbon Print!!

Must do more - rehearse a lot...

Thanks to Jim for all his nice help..

[Vaughn]

Sorry about this but the title does state "New Carbon Prints"....

And I have just made my VERY very first attempt to make my own..

Congrats! You got an image! My first print was a solid black mess, so I made new tissue and the next set of prints had a faint hint of images. I figured I had it ranged and the next print was right in between!

Fairly inexpensive process, except for the investment of time.

Vaughn

[sanking]

I am glad people post mistakes and early attempts, if we only see perfection, we become discouraged. We=I

Thanks for the honesty!

I did a workshop recently with a young woman who just got her BFA and plans to go to graduate school in the fall. She had worked with carbon on her own with not a lot of success before the workshop, and hoped to learn enough to be able to be able to print her MFA exhibition with carbon. At some time during the workshop she asked me how long it took me to make my first good carbon printer after I got started. I told her the truth, it took me three years! Her reply was, "Oh no, Mr. Sandy".

Course, back when I started printing with carbon we did not have resources on the web and the ability to get feed-back on our work from good carbon printers was not widely available. But even with all of the information the internet offers us carbon transfer remains a fairly complicated medium to master.

Sandy

[Tin Can]

Good to know. I am hesitant to even begin. I have many things I need to do first so my laboratory is actually ready.

I'm big on research, and then experimentation. Thank you all for sharing and especially Sandy King, who seems to be the leader of the pack.

I will be ordering your book later today. Seems the only library copy is in Montana!

Nothing good comes easy!

I did a workshop recently with a young woman who just got her BFA and plans to go to graduate school in the fall. She had worked with carbon on her own with not a lot of success before the workshop, and hoped to learn enough to be able to be able to print her MFA exhibition with carbon. At some time during the workshop she asked me how long it took me to make my first good carbon printer after I got started. I told her the truth, it took me three years! Her reply was, "Oh no, Mr. Sandy".

Course, back when I started printing with carbon we did not have resources on the web and the ability to get feed-back on our work from good carbon printers was not widely available. But even with all of the information the internet offers us carbon transfer remains a fairly complicated medium to master.

Sandy

[Emil Schildt]

Second try..

reversed image

still to flat but again there's an image... yeah!

[Tin Can]

I think you do fine, considering your past work shown here.

Second try..

reversed image

still to flat but again there's an image... yeah!