Workshop Day 3

We continued to try to adjust prints started previously. I was not happy with the results, so i tried another image, Icelandic Dingy. Layering was Cyan, Yellow, and finally Magenta. Before the last layer, I was worried it was not working either, as the grasses were straw colored. But then the magenta pulled it all together. This process it not intended to produce perfect color match to reality. The number of variables is great and every print will be different somehow. The pigments used are watercolor, so the choice of pigments, mixing concentrations, brushing techniques, processing, etc, all contribute to tje variations between individual prints. But this process was I believe the earliest attempt to produce color print. The process dates back to 1855. That is at least 50 years before the development of color film.Read more