Pt/pd on vellum
- 4″ x 6″ platinum / palladium print on vellum subsequently dry mounted to watercolor paper and waxed.
The above image is an example of a new printing method I have been working on where I contact print onto a drafting vellum (Clearprint is my vellum of choice, though Staedtler works well; Bienfang is a trip down masochistic lane, though, as the stuff disintegrates when wet), dry mount the print to watercolor paper (I have a stack of white Stonehenge Rising–note: the version I’m using is no longer made, but any paper will work as it is just a backing to mount the vellum print to), and then wax it using Renaissance Wax. The prints are 4″ x 6″ with a slight black border and are floated in a 6″ x 9″ window cut into 8-ply 11×14 matboard from Frame Destination. I haven’t decided on a frame for them yet, I have 10 matted images for a small solo show in June at UNT’s Union Gallery.
May 17th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
that looks beautiful.
May 24th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Gorgeous image. I’m curoius about the waxing portion of your process. Does it make the vellum even more transparent? How do you think the Renaissance product would work with making paper negs?
June 5th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Trevor, I’m honestly not too sure as I haven’t waxed anything that wasn’t drymounted to an opaque paper. I can tell that it makes it slightly more transparent, but due to the cost of Renaissance Wax vs. the cost of bees wax I wouldn’t use it for making paper negatives more transparent for printing through.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Nice image jer, how many do you sacrifice to the photo gods in order to get a good print?
June 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Robert, since it’s using a digital negative I don’t have to dial in too much, but there are all of those wonderful alt process variables that keep me at about 4 of every 5 as keepers.