Re: Kallitype humidity problems

Terry King and I both worked a little on chrysotypes in the late 1980s,
and recently he has published some of his pictures by what I think he
calls the Chrysotype Rex process.

My approach was to use the same sensitiser for all the iron processes,
creating a solution of iron(III) oxalate from iron (III) nitrate and
potassium oxalate, usually with a small amount of free oxalic acid. The
exposed prints could then be treated with various solutions to give
kallitype, platinum etc prints. I wasn't impressed enough with the
results with gold solutions to publish these, but I did produce a couple
of chrysotypes.

I think there was a set of instructions for the Satista process
(silver/platinum) on the Bostick & Sullivan website that was the one
variety of this approach I thought of some interest, but I don't know if
it is still there. I don't know how much Terry has departed from our
approach then in his more recent work, but I suspect it is fairly
similar. Probably it would not take a great deal of experiment to
produce either chrysotypes or fast cyantoypes.

Regards,

Peter

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Don Bryant wrote:

>Chris,
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>>I have not done chrysotype but Don Bryant on this list has.
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>Thanks for the credit but I have not done Chrysotype printing although I
>said I wanted to. I have all of the chemicals but unfortunately not the time
>to work with chrysotypes.
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>For a starter for anyone interested in chrysotypes I would suggest a Google
>search on the word "Chrysotype."
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>Mike Ware's website:
>http://www.mikeware.co.uk/mikeware/Prints_of_Gold.html
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>is sure to come up as well as others. His site will have a description of
>the process but unless you are someone that is comfortable with the chemical
>nomenclature and understand enough chemistry to have ease with reading his
>article the procedures outlined maybe difficult to follow. I exchanged a few
>e-mails with Dr. Ware a few years ago asking questions about the process.
>Even though his answers were courteous he finally asked that I not e-mail
>him further explaining that he did not intend to tutor me in chemistry;
>which was fair enough since it was his time. He also wrote that he was
>working on a chrysotype book, but I have yet to hear that it has been
>published. Dr. Peter Vail was also working with Ware and at one time had an
>online gallery and short description of the process, so Google on his name
>too.
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>Finally Tony McLean has an article about Chrysotypes on the Unblinking Eye
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>http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Gold/gold.html
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>The late John Rudiak also posted an article on his website which is still
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>http://johnrudiak.com/a_chrysotype.html
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>Terry King's website has an article titled "Chrysotype Rex" and may be worth
>reading:
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>http://www.hands-on-pictures.com/html/rexhow.html
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>As for your black specks in your kallitypes, I would speculate that you have
>metallic silver in your solution so you may want to filter your sensitizer.
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>>From my experience recommended papers for this process include Stonehenge,
>Arches Platine, Cot320, Cranes Platinotype, Bienfang and Clear Print Vellums
>or any paper that usually works well with VDB.
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>Good luck,
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>Don Bryant
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Received on Sun Jul 17 16:53:19 2005