Don Messec: Making Art Safely, Part 2 May 24, 2011 My second day of working with Don Messec [1] of Making Art Safely ( see Part 1 by clicking here [2] ) was intended to be used to determine if Piezography inks can bring anything unique to his photop... artists piezography and food piezography life writing Read more
Don Messec: Making Art Safely, Part 1 May 23, 2011 Last week I was working with Don Messec at his amazing and healthy printmaking studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Don has dedicated the last two decades to making art safer for printmakers and artists. I... artists piezography life writing Read more
Making a fine Piezography print Mar 17, 2011 A new Piezography Chronicle has been produced on the basics of making a fine Piezography print. Piezography does not take any particular skill that is not required to make a competent print with an OE... featured piezography technical research workflow Read more
Piezography for X900!?! Mar 13, 2011 WOW! This is totally unexpected. Roy Harrington (author of QTR) reported last week “Interesting development. I got a hold of a 7900 briefly so I could try the QTR driver. — the method was just to use... 7900 / 990 new products piezography Read more
The Darkroom Revisited - version 2 Feb 17, 2011 Yesterday, I was in the darkroom with Ilford MultiGrade IV paper, Sprint Chemistry, and Piezography digital-negatives. It was fun and dark. With water running quietly, it seemed quite meditative. Perf... digital negatives piezography life writing Read more
Gimme that old time feeling Jan 23, 2011 This winter I have been shooting with a combination of plastic Diana lenses, single element optic lenses, and my prized Zeiss Distagon 21mm ƒ2.8. Shooting with a diana lens makes me feel a bit nostalg... artists featured piezography development piezography life Read more
no substitute for real world testing Oct 20, 2010 There is no substitute for real world testing…like 20 feet of salt water and 3 months in the direct sun! Its been five years since the tragic devistation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, ma... piezography life writing Read more
A Theory of Two Georges Apr 12, 2010 There is the theory that a few colors can reproduce everything else, and I think of the great French painter Georges Seurat. In the latter part of the 19th century, Seurat painted dots of red, green, ... artists featured piezography life writing Read more
On new papers and coating observations Mar 23, 2010 A recent comment on the popular Digital BW, The Print discussion list left me scratching my head yesterday…a little in disbelief at the responses to what seemed like a very benign observation by a m... piezography life writing Read more
On new papers and coating observations part 3 Mar 23, 2010 The strange thing about all this is that in 2005, Piezography Neutral K7 was released as a multi-toning ink system. But, instead of using color inks, it utilized the tone of the paper in order to arri... piezography life writing Read more
On new papers and coating observations part 2 Mar 23, 2010 The strange thing about all this is that in 2005, Piezography Neutral K7 was released as a multi-toning ink system. But, instead of using color inks, it utilized the tone of the paper in order to arri... piezography life writing Read more
Piezography resolution in comparison to Epson ABW Mar 8, 2010 When Epson released their ABW system, we produced a test that would help show one of the significant differences between using six or seven shades of Piezography black ink in comparison to using only ... featured piezography technical research workflow Read more