[Alt-photo] Re: Four color gum

[Marek Matusz]

All, Here is the link to my final set of pictures. All 3 prints are done now. https://plus.google.com/photos/105732508998271877151/albums/5882305049320410433 My workflow was somewhat different from Chia's. I used graphite gray (which comes as a nice neutral black on the print) for my fist black layer with K negative. Then I decided to use RGB separations for added color. My blue was cobalt blue (Daniel Smith). It is a very light, clean blue, which suited me well since I was going for a tint rather then full color saturation. I have included pictures of that stage.  Then I added magenta (quinacridone rose from DS). This turned out to be a bit more saturated then I would like. For one of the images I have included two versions of the print. One with just soak water development, perhaps 15 minutes and the second image after spray development and brushing. I need to cut the magenta concentration for my next project. I did do a lot of spraying and brushing to remove parts of the image at every stage. For yellow I used Quinacridone gold PO49. It is more muted then typical process yellow. Just one of the images (amaryllis) contained a substantial yellow component and it blended very nicely with PV19 for the coral red of the amaryllis.  Finally another lighter graphite layer to adjust (darken) background and add a touch of contrast in parts of images.  That was one intense printing week and I am very excited about the images and the new printing workflow. I did try doing low saturation images before and they always come muddy and just unpleasant.  This workflow of starting with a solid black layer is just amazing as it allowed me to visualize the steps of adding hints of color while keeping solid and crisp image. Thanks to Chia for sharing. Marek