Chrysotypes and/or Gold Prints

SCHRAMMR@WLSVAX.WVNET.EDU
Fri, 28 Jun 1996 21:44:34 -0400 (EDT)

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Ever since Terry King's post about Herschel's method of making a gold print
I have been fooling around with this. Mostly repeating what he described
in his post with the same results. Recently I think I may have a small
breakthrough with the "brush" development. Instead of a brush, I got one
of those tiny little paint rollers that are designed for touch-up. I was
using a 4 x 5 neg and the roller is about 31/2 inches wide so it almost
covers the print in one pass. The rollers are disposable BTW. It takes
about 20 cc of 1% gold chloride to saturate the roller, but you can cover
the print very quickly with it exerting moderate pressure. Next step-
try more diluted gold chloride and bigger prints. This little paint
roller works so well at coating the paper, I may try it with other
processes. Paper used: Crane's kid white, unsized. The image is blue-
black and white and appears to have a full range of tones but more tests
are needed before I can make a definitive statement on that. Today I
went back to the hardware store and bought all the tiny little paint
roller covers they had. Fortunatly, the clerk did not ask me what I was
doing. Fortunatly for him as I might have told him. ;-)