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Cor I've been doing gum over platinum/palladium prints for a good long while now (relatively speaking of course). Clay Harmon graciously spent a weekend giving me a crash course in it and I've been stumbling my way through it for the last few years. Its a wonderfully addictive process, as I've heard many practitioners state, gum layers atop a pt/pd print can do nothing but improve a print. :) I usually print either 2 or 3 layers of gum. Have found fabriano artistico extra white to be the mainstay paper, prebath in oxalic acid, sized with formalin after the pt/pd print is done. Using winsor&newton wc pigments. Good combo for my working methods. Enjoyed hearing about your process etc. Hope to see more of your gum overs.
One of my gum overs... 3 layers 1- indian yellow and burnt umber 2- burnt sienna, perylene maroon, and burnt umber 3- black (short exposure helps punch the shadows a bit.
Matthew Magruder www.matthewmagruder.com 512 565 6691 --------------------------------------- Texas Church Project www.texaschurchproj.com Since the list is in a image sharing mode (which is great, I love to see the work of others!) I would like to share a first result (it is still work in progress) of my regretfully infrequent alt printing adventures:
You can find it at: http://home.casema.nl/cordieuwke/GumOverPlatinum.html
The details, for those interested:
I started out with a Kodak Infrared negative (35mm). It was made during our trip in May to Turkey. This one is from the wonderfull area of Cappadocia, near the town Neveshir (Judy: the girl running towards me on the image is my daughter, one of the twins..).
I made enlarged negatives from it by revearsal a la Liam Lawless (I still work completely analogue..perhaps I am as we say in dutch "De laatste der Mohikanen"..leave the translation to you..;-).... I made several negatives with different Dmax densities by altering the flash time.
My idea was to print a high contrast image with platinum, and than fill in with gum to lower the contrast and to add colour (with a low contrast negative).
The paper I used is Canson Fonteney, smooth side, pre-shrunk but not sized (I hate sizing, and I know that this paper can take a few gum layers without staining).
Only one gum coat is there: a weak Burnt Sienna.
And know I have to think what next, keep it as such, or add some other colour (I am primairly a B&W person, scored a meager 37 on the colour IQ test..;-)..)
Still have a few high contrast PT prints that need filling in, I am thinking about yellow..
Best,
Cor
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