----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:46
PM
Subject: Re: I can't remember the
process
Marilyn
I can think of a couple of options, but having problems
remembering any details.
Your "purple" solution could involve either an Iodine
reducer of Potassium Permanganate reducer.
There is a process I have tried some 5-7 years ago
called "Bleach-Etch" process. Here a print is immersed in a bleach/etch
solution, (no details to hand on this solution, may have information elsewhere
if needed), then swabbed with a cotton wool pad to remove loosened
gelatine. Reollect that after this I dyed the remaining gelatin base
with a food dye or similar.
Possible reference, Kent E Wade, Alternative
Photographic Processes published by Morgan & Morgan, 1978.
There is a chapter on Beyond the Black & White.
If you want any further information please get back to
me privately. jimth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx May
have more time next week to look for old notes.
Jim Thyer
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:05
AM
Subject: I can't remember the
process
Once upon a time I made some prints using a
method that required washing the surface of the print with a chemical
(purple liquid, I remember) that removed some of the prints
surface. There is a name for this method and I can't recall it for the
life of me.
The original print may have been made
using a nonsilver process - I'm looking at one of the prints now and the
paper is very textured - like a watercolor paper (it's matted, mounted
and framed so I can't actually feel the paper).
I'll keep rummaging through my books and
papers, but I thought one of you might remember the method.
Marilyn
