Given that, I'm looking for a way to help duplicate in a print the
luminosity and lushness of color that I get with slides.
I'm still the newbie here, so this might be a dumb question, but I was
wondering if gum bichromate would do that with many layerings, or
whether working with a translucent or transparent substrate would
accomplish the trick (glass or plexiglas, etched so it has some
"tooth"). Sort of duplicating for color what the Woodburytype did for
greyscale with its depth of gelatin (I've not only mixed my processes
here, but probably my metaphors too, but I'm having a hard time
describing what I'm wanting. I'm thinking depth of gelatin would allow
something more than just reflecting off the surface).
Has anyone ever used white as a layer in a bichromate, i.e. trying to
"pop out" or augment a white tone rather than relying on the sometimes
offwhite of the paper? Hopefully I'm not running against color theory
with that question.
Just some more of my "reaching for something" questions.
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