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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