Diane Townsends Dry Ground Sets
Product information "Diane Townsends Dry Ground Sets"
The Townsend Dry Ground is a block of pumice tinted with pigments and bound together
with a formula I created to adhere to any paper as a support for pastel or any drawing
medium. I have been working with this concept for 45 years. I first made a wet ground
application based on Cennino Cennini’s “Il libro dell’arte” in which he tells how to
prepare a panel for silverpoint by gathering the chicken bones from under the table and
placing them in a fire and collecting the ash and grinding it to a fine powder…tri calcium
phosphate…. and mixing it with gelatin. Then apply to a panel and let dry.
The prepared surface holds graphite, silver or pastel etc. and intensifies the mark. I used
to make a fine hand painted ground for paper called “pastel deluxe” or “Townsend Pastel
Paper” that was very successful, but the labor involved made it commercially prohibitive!
The surfaces I like and recommend are delicate and allow for subtle uses in a pastel
painting.
But priming a paper with a wet ground brings lots of managing in the application and I
thought of a dry ground applied anywhere and the paper could be prepared on the spot
whether in a studio or in the field.
The Townsend Dry Ground has been tested for over a year now and works wonderfully
well for those who like the flow of pastel or any medium.
Townsend Dry Ground should be applied to paper lying flat on a table or floor. First
apply a light coat, and then rub it in with your hands. You must wear latex gloves or there
will be nothing left of your hand!
Rub this into the paper firmly and reapply a second coat, rubbing firmly! That should
give you a smooth even application and just dust off the excess and you are ready to go.
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Content: 0.25 Piece (€56.72* / 1 Piece)