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Spent the weekend playing around with albumen printing. Just wanted to go through the process once end-to-end using my equipment and chemistry. Went reasonably well: at least I got results. Lots of room for improvement, but...another tool to add to the toolbox.
Have to find the right paper, though. Of the 3-4 that I tried, only the bristol board recommended by the Eastman crew for salt printing worked well. The other papers ranged from mediocre to awful. Interestingly, the only other paper to be even OK was from a pad of writing paper I was given as a gift a while back: it was recycled from a bunch of obsolete topographical maps. The school photo above (from a found glass plate negative) has a bit of the Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea on the back...
Doing my Joshua's faceup last night because I am an impatient git who can't wait for daylight. I got an Artetje brush since it was cheap, they're pretty nice. So thin! Definitely helped with the different eyebrow style I was trying to do. I don't quite know how to stop it getting a bit blunt while painting though, towards the end it just wasn't making the same crazy superfine lines... Oh well.
The nailclippers weren't for anything, I use the pin to scratch away some paint lines though.
(see notes for descriptions of steps 1-4)
5) After I've got a good line drawing, I color it using one of three methods:
*I scan it into the computer and color it there ,
* I photocopy the drawing onto watercolor paper (photocopy ink isn't water soluble), and color it with watercolor washes
or
* I color it with my Copic markers.
the computer is good for effects like sandwashed denim, and it's a really quick way to get a rough sense of how the fabric colors will look together. It's quicker to get a nicer drawing with watercolor, and an infinite number of colors are available for practically free. It's hard to get bright colors, though. The markers get beautiful, bright colors, but each color costs $5. (ouch)
Black Glass Ambrotype
7x5"
Part of the series "Come and Play" that I am working on at the moment ... seems like the Ambrotype Fairies visited the plate ;-)
(or: what she´s been doing these past two days)
Once upon a blue moon, when I still thought wig-making might be fun, I bought a lot of raw, dirty and completely tangeled Suri alpaca hair of a truly gorgeous sunny blond colour. I found out the hard way that wig-making isn´t exactly my idea of a good time (...in fact, it´s the total opposite...) and I put the fibre away where it couldn´t remind me of my utter failure at something that everybody else and their Uncle Bob seemingly masters with joy and ease. Last week, when my Phoenix Dolls Elle head arrived, I remembered that lot of hair, thinking it would be the perfect colour for her. So I began processing the raw mess just for the hell of it, washing it about five times to get it clean, and losing half of the hair just trying to comb the knots out. In the end, what´s left is a less an half an ounce of fibre, and I´m at a complete loss if this would be enough to make a short-hair wig for an 8 inch head. I´m now looking for someone brave and professional who´d try and turn it into a wig for my new lady.
This lamp is made from a water-cooled dual processor from an Apple G5 desktop computer. Other elements include an hour meter, aircraft compass and 40W LED bulbs.
Couldn't have done these shots without my friend Petri