From: Peter Marshall (petermarshall@cix.co.uk)
Date: 12/01/00-04:17:37 PM Z
Emma
I think you will get as many opinions as answers on this one.
I used to teach kallitype to beginners and found it was easy for them to
get good results.
For the easiest of all ways in you could try the vandyke method - as in
'Keepers of Light' and elsewhere. Fast, easy and cheap, though possibly
not fully archival. The only possibly easier process is cyanotype.
For class use you will also find it can work well on some cheap student
cartridge papers at around one twentieth the cost of good watercolour
paper.
I have are several prints I made in both palladium/platinum and in
kallitype which are near identical - and sometimes the kallitype is
better. We've have discussions here (and elsewhere) about the probability
that some vintage platinum prints may actually be kallitypes.
Incidentally I found the Argyrotype to be much tricker to work with than
kallitype - it seemed to be far more dependent on the paper.
Peter Marshall
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> Terry,
>
> You know...I was told that I should start doing Kallitypes first...that
> it can produce the same results as palladium...I was also told...well
> see. I'm in College and I'm doing an independant study. I'm REALLY
> interested in alternative processes because I am having a major tonal
> issue! The tones in my work are not warm enough or not cool enough they
> do not support the images I make and when I started to do more research
> I found that platnium and palladium prints had this tonal quality that
> I think will be able to support the images I produce tonally.
>
> I am sort of making a class based on alternative proccesses and have a
> professor who is willing to help me since he works in palladium with an
> 8x10. =) (I work with a 4x5 myself) He told me to try palladium since
> it is a bit cheaper then platnium and then we decided that kallitype
> might be a good start since it's cheaper then palladium and is a good
> process to start off with.
>
> Thank-you so much for all your help with paper! I will look up your
> suggestions and add it to my notes! It's tough designing a class =)
>
> emma
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