From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 02/01/03-07:55:00 PM Z
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
> I also have Koenig's book on Gumoil - which is supposed to give similar
> results.
Gord, there may be someone who has made a successful print with that
process, but they're not mentioning it anywhere I've noticed. Koenig's
genius is in fact publicity -- he had an article about that book in every
photo publication in the known universe, and several in distant galaxies.
But not complete. You had to buy the book.
Since you have it, however, I'm curious about something....does he credit
the actual originator of the process ?? (Mentioned in Kent Wade, BTW,
before KK's book. I think it was a graduate thesis, or like that.)
I've always meant to try oil... & I plan to, so why don't you lead the
way? The downside is as I recall volatile solvents -- if your studio is
near your living, as mine is -- VERY near. Meanwhile, you may not believe
this, but gum bichromate will easily let you do area colors -- either
brush out the color you don't want, or mask the area before coating with
gum arabic, & dry... then coat gently so you don't pick it up. The
emulsion, even if it's "exposed," will wash off over the "mask." Then dry,
coat again with next color. Etc. That's somewhere in Post-Factory in more
detail, maybe I hope in the index...
(If you've seen Lyle Rexer's book, my "Kinky Tramps" was done that way --
from a monochrome original. Actually it looks like a C-print in repro,
because they cropped out the edges, which drove me crazy, but that's
another topic... fact is, any multiple gum does area color easily enough.
I made negs of different contrasts for Kinky, but that was as much to try
imagesetter & digital negs as anything else. It's readily done with a
single neg if it has a bit of range to spare.)
cheers,
Judy
> > Has anyone
used both processes? Any opinions on which one I should > attempt first?
>
> The reason I want to try these processes is the ability to ink different
> parts of the print with diffirent colors. I have a few images just calling
> out, begging for color, but I don't think hand coloring would do it.
>
>
>
> Gord
>
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