[alt-photo] Re: Gum over cyanotype question

[Loris Medici]

Ok, couldn't pass this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_larimer/sets/72157600288850737/
(Jim Larimer's works, I particularly like his duotone gum over
cyanotype images...)

Regards,
Loris.


27 Şubat 2012 23:23 tarihinde Loris Medici <mail at loris.medici.name> yazdı:
> Hi Diana,
>
> I guess it depends on your style / vision. You know Sam's, Christina's
> gum over cyanotypes. (And many many others, too many to name
> actually... But let me provide links to Mary's (Donato) two great
> galleries consisting gum over cyanotypes below:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gneissgirl/sets/72157625385627481/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gneissgirl/sets/72157627475086223/
>
> I see nothing too blue in those prints... Great color, great stuff!
> People do very nice work using this technique, definitely...
>
> Notice she works on FA. As Christina pointed out lately; maybe this
> paper isn't the best choice for straight cyanotypes, but it works very
> nice for tricolor gum over cyanotypes... (Probably because of the less
> intense nature of cyanotype on that particular paper; but I'm sure one
> can make cyanotype and gum layers work well together with other papers
> too...)
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> 27 Şubat 2012 22:26 tarihinde Diana Bloomfield
> <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net> yazdı:
>>
>> ...
>> I've never understood using a cyanotype base for gum-- doesn't it offer too intense
>> a blue for the other layers (?).