Cyanotype Papers

Video Transcript

"So just like photographic paper there are many different kinds of print making paper. What I'm holding in my hand is a brand of paper called Arches Watercolor paper. Now it's important to know about paper is that paper comes in surfaces and it comes in weight. Now the weight of the paper means how thick it is. And at first it was very confusing to me. I didn't understand what that meant at all. It really means how heavy it is or how much weight it can hold. This is a hundred and forty pound weight paper. This is my preferred paper weight to print on. You can use paper that's ninety pounds or less, but I find that paper to be a little bit too light. You could use paper that's a little heavier too, but again I find that paper to be a little bit too heavy. So a hundred and forty pounds is exactly what I like. Now there are two different types of surfaces for paper. There's cold and there's hot. Now this particular surface is a nice hot press. It's very, it's very smooth and it really doesn't have a lot of tooth to it and that's sort of what I like for cyanotypes. A cold press would have what they call tooth. It would have little tiny bumps on it, and for some type of print making or some effects that's what I want, but for today I'm going to use hot press."