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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