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I think I was just using a crappy printer with no color curves in photoshop, so
most of them didn't really come out too well. But here's a good starting point
: Prepare a saturated solution of potassium dichromate and water (~13 grams of K
Di in 100mL of water, keep adding until no more will dissolve in the water. Be
careful with the KDi!!!) I'm not sure what my gum arabic concentrations are, I u
se a premixed bottle from the Photographer's Formulary. It'll last forever. My
watercolors are cadmium yellow, alizarin crimson and phthalo blue for YMC respec
tively. Mix about 800mg of your watercolor + 15mL (1 tablespoon) of Gum Arabic
+ 15mL KDi solution. If you're using a black watercolor, use about 200 - 400mg.
If you don't like the final print's color balance, try messing with the color
balance in photoshop and reprint the negatives.EDIT
Hi everyone, I hope this video has helped out a bit. Now that I am 7 months olde
r and wiser than I was when I made this video, I've got two big points I want to
go back on:
1. I HIGHLY recommend you do not use laser printer transparency. The toner alway
s let the UV through, resulting in the prints requiring shorter exposures / more
pigment, which then resulted in staining.
2. I would also recommend against using graphite, and instead use black watercol
or for the black layer. Using graphite as a pigment tends to make the emulsion v
ery weak and streaky.
I hope to make an updated, more in-depth tutorial video about the process in the
coming weeks.
Karl Koenig invented the Gumoil alternative process. He uses an enlarged interpo
sitive to create a photographic image. The interpositive is contact printed onto
paper hand-coated with a mixture of liquid gum arabic and potassium bichromate.
This is exposed to an ultraviolet light source, then developed in water. The re
sulting image is then coated with oil paint, allowed to "set"; the excess oil pa
int is rubbed off with paper toweling, then the image is etched in a dilute mixt
ure of water and household bleach. The result is a true photographic image with
atmospherics and painterly qualities. Watch this 28 minute movie to see how it i
s done.
The bichromate solution is 5 percent, that is, 5 gm dissolved in water to give 1
00 ml of solution. The gum arabic is as bought in the bottle. Just mix one teasp
oon of bichromate solution with 1 teaspoon of gum arabic and then add a little c
olour, say, about as much gouache or poster paint as would over your little fing
er nail.
Ciao, sto cercando di fare un po' di pratica con questa tecnica. Utilizzo una so
luzione di gomma arabica ottenuta aggiungendo 30 gr. di gomma a 100 di acqua. Do
po una settimana aggiunto qualche percento di benzoato di sodio come conservante
. Utilizzo pigmento in polvere (nero d'avorio)(1 gr per 10cc sol. gomma) Disperd
o il pigmento in sol. di gomma. Poco prima di stenderlo su carta aggiungo volume
uguale di sol. di bicromato al 10%. Nella stesura non ottengo proprio l'uniform
it, ma in alcune regioni del foglio s. Esongo sotto lucido ottenuto con stampante
laser su poliestere. Riesco ad ottenere delle immagini, ma noto quanto segue: a)
forte contrasto b) nelle mezze tinte colorazione a macchie, con esasperazione d
ella tessitura della carta, pi evidenti con carta ruvida. La collatura con farina
o amido da arrowroot non ha portato evidenti miglioramenti. Se forse potr compen
sare il forte contrasto con negativi poco contrastati, per il punto b mi sono da
to una spiegazione che vorrei sottoporti. Nella stesura della gomma le creste de
lla carta hanno uno strato di gomma pi sottile di quello nelle valli, e nelle mez
ze luci quest'ultime non riescono a reticolarsi fino al fondo, e lo strato di go
omate stain from the print. Soak the print for approximately 3 minutes or until
the stain clears. Wash in clean water for several minutes afterward. The clearin
g solution can be reused.