[alt-photo] Re: Gum over cyanotype question

[Diana Bloomfield]

Hi Loris,

Yes, thanks for the links.  I'm, of course, aware that lots of people  
use it.  My comment was really meant to be in the form of a question--  
doesn't it make the blue layer too intense?  Obviously not, for the  
people who use it-- but, as you say, maybe they use paper that's not  
the best choice for cyanotype alone-- so the intensity is lost, which  
makes it work okay (?).   Still, I've never quite understood why, when  
doing gum, the cyanotype would be the choice (instead of pigment).   
Not a criticism-- just a valid question/observation.   It just seems  
like an additional step to me, somehow.  For me, it just seems easier  
to use pigments all the way through.

I've used cyanotype over pt/pd quite a lot, but using cyanotype alone  
always seemed troublesome to me (probably not using the right  
paper!).  My best success with cyanotype (by itself) was, in fact, on  
muslin fabric.

Diana

> 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 (?).
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