Re: oil prints -selective inking

Hi:

My pinhole shots are on large format lith film processed for continuous
tone. I want to try making some cameras that will produce very
abstracted/distorted images. Just a matter of creating more time in my
day.

So What is good starting point for making oil prints :) What is a good
matrix mix? Brushing technique ...

I had started with a black litho ink for a pigment. Are you saying oil
pigtments (ie for oil painting) can be used?

Gord - begging for information :)

On Thu, 25 May 2006, John Grocott wrote:

> Hi Gord, Colouring of your image with oil pigment once the matrix has been
> made is a great step forward for people like you who are obviously
> interested in building photographic pictures by hand. Oil pigments allow
> you to add or change, or completely remove and replace selected coloured
> areas of the format as the medium is very slow drying; similar to
> traditional painting with oils. Work can be left and returned to, later, for
> continuation. Brushes or foam rollers or foam dabbers may be used to isolate
> parts of the subject as desired. Personally, I prefer small foam rollers as
> they are cheap to replace and can be used to lay in large areas of ink
> quickly or modify small details. I presume your pinhole pics start as
> paper negs in the camera? It sounds like a great project. Wish we could see
> some of your results. Artists' paper is very expensive for
> experiments.....so I use decorators lining paper (extremely cheap) for
> practice which comes in large rolls and stands up well to soaking as it is
> made to take water paste for sticking to walls.
> I am now stroking the cat. John.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon J. Holtslander" <holtsg@duke.usask.ca>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:41 AM
> Subject: oil prints -selective inking
>
>
> >I played around briefly trying to make oil prints on artists paper, rather
> > than fixed printing paper. I've had little succuss but only tried a
> > couple of prints.
> >
> > From what I have read about oil prints, one is able to selectively ink
> > different parts of the image. One can use different colors of ink, and
> > make a mulitcolord oil print. Is this accurate?
> >
> > This holds great appeal for some of the large format pinhole work I have
> > done ( and hope to do more)
> >
> > Gord
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
> > holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
> > http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
> > Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
> > Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
holtsg@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place
http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan
Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2
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Received on 05/25/06-04:26:38 PM Z