Re: Chromoskedasic Painting (was: Color Images from B/W Paper)

Christina, I can't paraphrase the formula in a way that would make
sense, but if you will send me your address off-list, I'll send you all
the articles I have, including the View Camera one. I'm no longer
working in the darkroom so will have no need in the future of these
articles. My address is gtay22@earthlink.net. Grace

On Wednesday, November 30, 2005, at 09:02 PM, Christina Z. Anderson
wrote:

> Grace,
> Can you paraphrase the formula given in View Camera? i have not seen
> that article. I have all the Jolly articles on the subject.
>
> I would bet a hundred bucks those "duotone solarizations" of Teske's
> were chromos--unless he first did a warmtone sabattier (adding
> potassium bromide to the second developing bath) and THEN double toned
> in strong selenium. Those rusts are so rust...and look like Jolly's
> examples in Darkroom Techniques.
>
> We've gotten deep rusty yellows, pinky mauves, and a lovely bandaid
> fleshy color I can send you offlist if you want to see it. But not
> the colors that appear in the Lam article. That doesn't mean anything
> because I have not had time to push the process.
>
> I do have a couple students doing it for their final project this
> semester so maybe they'll come up with more stuff. Jolly's "magenta"
> is not what I call magenta, but then again maybe no one was using the
> right paper.
>
> For instance, with the lumen prints the paper that was brilliant
> magenta was forte polywarmtone rc and forte polywarmtone fiber.
> Chris
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grace Taylor"
> <gtay22@earthlink.net>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Chromoskedasic Painting (was: Color Images from B/W Paper)
>
>
>> I tried this process several years ago. Because of the current
>> interest, I looked at a box of prints I had made and found copies of
>> three articles which should be available in the back issues of the
>> magazines. This may be a repeat of info already sent, but
>> anyway---"The Black and White Corner Chromoskedasic Painting by Alan
>> W. Bean" View Camera September/October 1992; "Chromoskedasic Duotone
>> Pseudosolarization Using Development Fogging" by William L. Jolly"
>> Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques Nov/Dec 1992; "Chromoskedasic
>> Painting by Dominc Man-Kit Lam and Bryan w. Rossiter" Scienific
>> American November 1991.
>>
>> Alan Bean's article gives specific instructions. At the end of the
>> article if says "For more information regarding this process, write
>> to him at 90 Dexter Street, Attleboro, MA 02703." If he is still at
>> that address, I think he'd be please to know that his article is
>> still being saved.
>>
>> I only colors I was able to get were shades of rust and brown. Hope
>> this helps. Grace
>>
>
>
Received on Fri Dec 2 14:20:31 2005