obsessive photographer at play
We just moved and I’m getting my alt process lab up and going again. These are palladium prints (hand-coated emulsion consisting of noble metal and an iron-based light senstizer on watercolor paper) of the outside of the Louvre museum in Paris that I made last night.
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.