> I am looking for a means to add the colour gold onto a (black and white)
> picture. I don't mean Goldtoner, but something (maybe a toner? or
> pigments?) that adds a somewhat transparant layer to (a part of) the
> image. It should be visible, but not just when you hold the image in
> your hand and move it somewhat so that the light hits it and the gold
> reflects.
>
> I have been messing around with pens, but they sort of cover the
> underlying image and are in no way transparant. I have tried Palegold
> (Schmincke), which is a sort of paste to be mixed with e.g. linseed oil,
> but it doesn't really mix with the emulsion; it tends to stay on top of
> the emulsion and doesn't really show, unless you move your paper, so
> that the light will hit the gold and it will reflect. Using pigments
> might be possible, but how (with what) are they to be mixed in order to
> blend into the emulsion of my photographic paper? Maybe there is after
> all a sort of toner, which will produce (real) gold.
>
> Jacques Verschuren
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My students use Dr. Martin's dyes. It's a transparent coloring dye.
Taht's all I know. Ed