help with spotting lith prints

[Mark Fisher]

What are the spotting techniques you lith printers using? I've only recently started and have some prints I am very happy with, but of course, the negatives were not perfect and the prints need to be gently spotted. In the dark areas, I can probably get spot tone to work reasonably well. The nice creamy highlights are another matter. Watercolors? I'd like to use something that is reversible since I am definitely not an expert at spotting.

Thanks -- Mark

 

[fschifano]

Dilute the Spotone. Dilute it a lot. Make it very thin, and apply it sparingly. Build up to the shade you need in layers. It is reversible. Soaking the print in a few changes of water for 15 to 30 minutes will remove Spotone.

 

[blaze-on]

For colors I use the peerless brand sheets from Freestyle..
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=&pid=5791

 

[Andrew Moxom]

Spotone #3 (Selenium) works wonderfully on my Lith prints on Forte Polywarmtone, and also on Foma papers. I find the warmer tones of each paper more suited to Spotone #3.

I use a cocktail stick for spotting rather than a brush as the point is easier to control. I wet the end and dab it onto a hard surface to make the point a little dull and flexible. Then I dip it into the spotone, and dab it once on my tongue and then to the print to gradually build up the layers. Works a like a champ!

 

[Mike Té]

Really? On your tongue?!

(Wouldn't #4 taste better?)

Then I dip it into the spotone, and dab it once on my tongue and then to the print to gradually build up the layers.