Re: Paper Negatives and Alt Process
Hi Katharine, Thank you very much for your interest in my work and website. There is considerably more material in my notes that I would like to compile and upload to the site if I have the opportunity. Your question I've had to think about for a bit though. I'm not sure whether I chose the process or it chose me. In addition to tri color gum, I have also worked with Bromoil and Rawlins Oil. Making oil paper from scratch is much like making carbon tissue and they are both gelatin based, so perhaps it may have been somewhat of a natural progression. I had been very taken by the look of a carbon print some decade and a half ago, but I was too intimidated by the process to have the wherewithal to try it. I started working with tricolor gum because I had the desire to see some of my prints in color (and not inkjetted), but I always had the vision of that carbon print nibbling at the back of my mind. Then I was without a workspace for a few years, but once I was able to get a new darkroom operational some three years ago, I decided to go for it and give carbon transfer a try. I guess I just fell in love with the process and I have been hooked ever since. On another level, it may have been the mystique and challenge of the process, aided by a goodly amount of beginners luck, that got me started. Cheers, Andrea ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Paper Negatives and Alt Process > Hi Andrea, > I like your website and am studying your research notes with > interest. I may have specific questions later, but one general > question first: I'm curious why you decided to tackle tricolor > carbon rather than sticking with tricolor gum, since you mention > that you have done tricolor gum in the past. > Katharine
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