brown tone sepia

Started with a properly exposed print, dark blue is better, but a really good exposed print is key or you end up with a totally brown piece of paper.

 

Bleached with baking soda 1/3 cup to 1 liter water (won't all dissolve just stir as much as you can in)

Bleached until completely yellow

 

Rinse well at least 5 min

 

then soaked overnight in green tea (foojoys 10 bags to pot of water let brew for 20 min

Put print in tea facedown try to give it a rock every couple hours (or more)

Should look brown in 12 ish hours.

 

At first the print may seem a bit purple, but in a few days it will be a perfect sepia.

Sometimes it's more of a purple brown, I think in that case, more bleaching is necessary.

 

I use Rives BFK Heavyweight.

Done