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Blackstone, The Final Chapter

  This is the third part of the Blackstone project series. You can read the first two parts here and here . We left off with Blackstone mounted to linen, all finally in one piece. It is starting to look like a poster. Before we can restore all the holes and cuts, we will have to fill them in with paper and filling compound to achieve a perfectly flat surface. This poster will be getting a lot of airbrushed painting which tends to highlight surface irregularities so we will have to take extra care during this step. Since this poster has so much prep work to be done, we called in our former employee Antonia. She is the prep master of the universe. Her work is impeccable. Gabe took advantage of the opportunity to watch and learn from her that day.  Blackstone has a mauve border surrounded by a bare paper border, both of which are missing in large areas. Antonia and Gabe use a yardstick to measure out where the extra borders will be placed. They select paper from a large

King Blackstone, Chapter the Second

This is the second installment of the Blackstone magician's poster project. You can get up to speed by reading the first installment here. We left off at John's rehearsal--the gelatin facing of two sections of scrap poster, similar to the Blackstone. He did this in order to experiment without ruining the actual poster. The two practice sections are gelatin mounted face-down to a board. The next step will be to attach a thin tissue backing to the scraps using PVA. Normally we wouldn't use PVA because it's irreversible, but this poster is an extreme situation; absolutely on its last leg and this will be the last time it is demounted and restored.  John sands the backs in order to smooth out any ridges. The tissue backing is trimmed to size. John has laid the tissue over the back of the first sample, and is painting PVA glue on top of it. This method proved too agitating for the tissue, which wadded itself up into a soggy mountainous paperscape