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[NedL]

From an ongoing series - World Heritage Sites - Image courtesy Monica Glitz - Tri Colour Pigment over Palladium

Those are wonderful!

[bob carnie]

Thanks Erik

I make a Palladium negative, In the negative I suck out some to the dominant colours so they print lighter in the palladium only main image.
This negative is the only one I sharpen and depending on the look I will increase or decrease the contrast.

I then make three negatives- Cyan , Magenta and Yellow- we strip them together with registration tabs, the original paper is on punched aluminum
then we hit each layer down.
I am still in the early stages trying to decide which layer first ..

It seems Cyan negative colour is a very dominant colour so I generally put the cyan down first.

Separating in PS is easy but time consuming.

This show for Monica is going to be over 80 -100 plates , all images are from Unesco Heritage sites world wide.
Our goal is to travel this show across Canada in 2017 - basically to show the public all the interesting and diverse regions where we Canadians come from.

Bob

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I use the same temp for both mounting and unmounting as my press thermostat is wonky and unreliable. I haven't had the paper unmount during multiple water baths. I've only used it on black aluminum which has a matte surface. I'm not sure how it would work on glossy aluminum. I'm assuming the aluminum I use is enameled, but it might be powder coated?

Those prints are incredible! I'm assuming several gum layers were used with all the different colors being shown? I'm too much a novice at photoshop to separate negs... Your client must be thrilled

[David Aimone]

Here's one for you Bob C. One of my first attempts at tri-color gum over palladium. Did not come out well, then I threw a bit of burnt sienna on it and now I kind of like it for what it is. Apparently that's a big part of gum printing! Back to practicing....

[bob carnie]

Here are two more Heritage Sites- Monica Glitz

Lots of fun, will post some new images in a week or so from a Prisoner Series I am working on

After the workshop I will post Students work and my own as we move through.

[bob carnie]

Here is the last one I will post of Monica Glitz for awhile

[ckagy]

Here's one for you Bob C. One of my first attempts at tri-color gum over palladium. Did not come out well, then I threw a bit of burnt sienna on it and now I kind of like it for what it is. Apparently that's a big part of gum printing! Back to practicing....

David, I love the warm feeling of this. Very nicely executed.

-Chris

[ndg]

Bob, Erik and David - well done! Beautiful prints indeed!

[Andrew O'Neill]

Bob, can you reuse the aluminum sheets for other prints? I know a guy in Seattle (David Pitcher) who uses Beva Tex dry mounted to the back of paper to prevent shrinking. It works really well.

[bob carnie]

Hi Andrew

At this point I am using a very aggressive mt optically pure adhesive used for face mounting.. I want to reuse the aluminum and like Eriks method and I will look into Beva Tex
There is question about the tissue , being archival - so I really like the idea of removing
Right now I am following Irving Penns method which I feel is nothing to sneeze at.

I also am moving to a smaller gage aluminum from the 20 gage I am using right now so I still am experimenting.

Bob, can you reuse the aluminum sheets for other prints? I know a guy in Seattle (David Pitcher) who uses Beva Tex dry mounted to the back of paper to prevent shrinking. It works really well.

[bob carnie]

Hi David

are you using registration? I remember this image, either way its a lovely scene and works well even if you do not like it It has a very old world look to it.

Here's one for you Bob C. One of my first attempts at tri-color gum over palladium. Did not come out well, then I threw a bit of burnt sienna on it and now I kind of like it for what it is. Apparently that's a big part of gum printing! Back to practicing....