Thank you for your reply - the 2D vs 3D is good point. I'm not sure oil-based varnish will stick to the print (which I assume is made with water-based paint), but it's worth a shot.
Yesterday I tried with a test print which I added a bit of chlorine to to try and break the sealing - for about 10 minutes. Then I added som salt and later a bit of very bitter tea and let everything dry in the sun.
Today I've added some raw linseed oil to see if it sticks. If it does, adding oil-based varnish (e.g. dammar varnish) on top should work, I think. And perhaps multiple layers over time. The linseed oil takes around a week to dry up.
Today I harvested Goldenrod from my porch
Father hated it and always destroyed it
It is good for many things, as I learned today
My tiny Bees swarmed it
The bright yellow is good for paper dye
Also saw a tiny purple Monarch butterfly, very rare
Goldenrod by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr
Tin Can
you can paint on your images using encaustic paints too. it is a mixture of paint and wax that is brushed on.
it might be a trouble free solution that can be done right onto your pigment print without the hassle of learning
how to do liquid emulsion, or a 19th century process. ( its not hard and lots of info on you tube )
I think the starn twins are doing their encaustic work onto of pigment / modern prints but I'm not exactly sure...
Do you know the work of Emil Schildt? He is a photographer from Denmark who used liquid emulsion, made cyanotypes,
did gumoils, bromoils and other things. His work had a painterly quality to it that you might find interesting. The Bromoil process converts a photographic print
into a "matrix" whose surface is "worked" and inks are brushed onto. It is not a digital process ( you can't do this with a glicée print ).
Gene Laughter was a Master of this type of image making https://www.alternativephotography.c...ter-1932-2017/
I am not sure how rare his videos are but they might be worth looking into. Emil is still around, I am not sure if he is still making them
he used liquid emulsion, so he did not have the problem of hunting around for "the right paper" (not super coated) because he pretty much made his own photo paper with liquid emulsion.
his books sometimes have instructions on how you can do these things on your own
(not the encaustic painting but the other stuff ) .. they are available on BLURB.
( I tried to post a link but it didn't let me just search blurb 's bookstore for Emil Schildt )
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