From: Dave Rose (cactuscowboy@attbi.com)
Date: 02/26/03-10:34:01 PM Z
I've seen the Demachy in KOL ("Etude, 1985") and the original print. WHOO
HOO!!! See it and you'll need no other reason to start gum printing.
Cactus Cowboy
Big Wonderful Wyoming
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Rattle" <henry.rattle@ntlworld.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: gum printing
> Since it's time us lurking gummists came out of the woodwork, count me in,
> too. I first came across a copy of Keepers of Light in the Photographers
> Gallery in London in about 1980-82, and made a few gum prints a year or so
> later. In 1984 that even included a three-colour gum (just one!), starting
> from a slide which was "printed" onto film through red, green and blue
> filters to make three 5x4 negatives, subsequently gum-printed with
alizarin
> crimson, monastral blue and cadmium yellow. A small print, but I was
pleased
> with it - and for a half-plate postal circle it was the right size.
However
> the labour of making and printing the tricolour negatives was just too
much
> for someone with a day job. My best print of that time was a little
portrait
> made with two printings of indian red - if you've seen the Demachy in KOL
> you'll know why I wanted to try that.
(snip)
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