Re: Palladium-toning Van Dyke
Jordan,
If you care about permanence all vandyke prints should be toned. Your
choices are to tone before fixing with gold, palladium or platinum,
or after fixing and a thorough wash with selenium.
The final color of a vandyke print toned with palladium or platinum
is a warm black with a touch of rust. With gold toning you get a
blue black with a touch of rust.
Sandy King
At 12:04 PM -0500 12/21/06, Jordan Wosnick wrote:
Hi everyone,
Forgive me if this is a common question.
I've been having a lot of success recently with printing Van Dyke
Brown, and I'd like to experiment more with toning my prints. My
initial thought was to try gold-toning, but it's difficult to find
cheap gold chloride in small quantities, and palladium-toning seems
like it would be much less expensive. I would likely buy PdCl2 and
then mix with NaCl to make a Pd toner -- I guess I could also mix it
with LiCl to give Ziatypes a try (they look interesting too).
There are just a few examples of Pd-toning Van Dykes on the web. My
understanding is that the final print colour ends up something like
a warm black. Is this correct? Is Pd-toning Van Dykes advisable?
Jordan
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Jordan Wosnick
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