[Alt-photo] Re: casein on glass

[Jorj Bauer]

> I tried casein on glass, and was really surprised how well one print out of 4 came out. Others, user error.

You're doing a lot better than I did. I printed months of the stuff trying to get it working the first time. :)

> The shelf is too thick, first the stacking, there was too much pressure on the bottom glasses. The print that was almost good, doesn't look good placed on a white paper. The thickness gives disturbing shadows.

I backlight my glass prints. I also print them on 3/16" glass, printing on both the front and back of each of three panes - two C, two M, two Y (or sometimes just one Y, on the back of the frontmost pane to avoid having to use an extra protective sheet up front).

> Jorj, really nice pictures, I got similar density as in your Fire Bikes (one coating?). How thick or thin glass do you use?

Fire Bikes is on Rives BFK, actually. That's Burning Man playa dust, suspended in casein; probably 3 or 4 layers. No other pigment which is why it's so thin.

Of that set on Flickr, there are two on glass - She Drank a Little Whiskey, and Marching Ever Onward. They're two of my early glass prints (I think Marching was my first, and Whiskey might be my second or third), each only one layer of casein per pane of glass. So they're both very thick; probably 6 or 7 panes each. I really like the parallax of the color separations on their own layer; it really needs to be seen in person.

-- Jorj