Originally Posted by
jnantz
before printing images on canvas people used to do an emulsion peel and glue it to your backing (canvas, board &c ) you might consider making a few prints and seeing if crumpling and then ironing and dry mounting the image ( once it is peeled ) helps add wanted texture before gluing it. I would also suggest printing right onto your canvas and then doing your brush strokes of your top coat on that, it will look ( and work ) better.
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I am not sure how much of a enlarge or contact print with light sensitive materials your project might be, or what your "alt process" experience might be, but you could always make a series enlarged color separation negatives the size of your final print, and make a color gum print. That's how a project like yours would have been done between 100 years ago. You could put the gum over a cyanotype, silver print, or any kind of other image, or use the gum by itself. You will have brush strokes from the application of the gum, pigment and sensitizer &c. Christopher James and Christine Anderson's books detail how this can be done, and they are readily available through AMAzON. Alternativephotography.com also has information if you can't find the books.
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