Litn No 2

I'm not smart at all on lith printing. Sometimes the grittiness adds, sometimes not. 'Have to leave that part to others more experienced. The composition and toning are striking to me. Toning on my monitor looks more sepia than selenium - maybe a byproduct of the lith? Landscape w/ solo tree are nice & the sky/clouds look really good.

I like the effect. Selenium can radically change the tonality of the print, especially depending on the dilution. The grittiness is from the type of paper and time in developer. Amongst other things. Have fun experimenting!

Very beautiful. I use the Moersch EasyLith, too and find that the grittiness appears when I selenium tone to the end, i.e. 1:4 KRST for close to 10 minutes. Also, shorter exposure and more dilute developer reduce this somewhat (using Fomatone Classic).

I really like the grittiness; it adds a significant amount of moodiness to the image... also, I just plain like the image in and of itself

Seeing what you're able to do with the lith process, I'm surprised you were asking what to do with 1,100 sheets of old paper earlier.... I'd say that paper has definitely fallen into the right hands!

Very nice!

I like both of these lith prints. To me there is nothing wrong with significant grit for some images!

These are both very good prints from your first time lith-printing, however, I agree with you (I think) in that it's too gritty for the image you printed (especially this one). There's so much detail in this print that gets lost in the grittiness, which I think detracts from it a bit. The Foma Variant 123 is much grittier than other papers in the Foma line. While I like the gritty effects people get from different papers, I find the grittiness does not work with the subjects I usually print, so I usually use the (old) Fomatone MG 131/132 papers which are "creamier" than the 123 (or other papers like Slavich). It's worth trying different papers for different subjects, as grittiness/smoothness and colour will greatly affect how successful the picture looks as a lith print.

Perhaps a tad too gritty...but I sure am digging the composition!