Gum Bichromate: Alternative Photo Printing

Gum Bichromate: Alternative Photo Printing

“Thank you for being part of this course. We are very happy to have accompanied you along the way and to have been able to teach you everything we know so that you can apply it in your future projects. Before saying goodbye, we are going to review the key phases of the project: your monochrome dichromated rubber from an image. We would like you to briefly explain what you have done in each step and to accompany the explanation with one or more images. The image Choose a photo or an image to make your bichromated rubber. It can be an illustration, a work that you like or a photo from your archive, for example.

The negative Next, make your digital negative and print it on an acetate as we have taught you in the unit "First steps to prepare the rubber". The emulsion Next, prepare your pigments and photosensitive emulsion. When you have everything ready, emulsify your paper. The revealed The next step is to expose your paper and negative together to ultraviolet light and then develop in water. The end result Finally, repeat the entire process of emulsifying, exposing and revealing until you are satisfied with the result of your dichromated rubber. Now share your final project with the community by clicking on "Create your project". Remember to share both the final result and the steps that have led you to it. We are dying to see your project and give you feedback. Although we ask for your patience, we will try to access the forum as much as possible and what my professional projects allow us. Finally, we want to invite you to actively participate in the forum, not only sharing your progress, but also giving advice and trying to help the rest of the community. See you on the forum!”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We have finished the course and we want to thank you for being part of it. We prepare everything with a lot of dedication and affection. so that step by step you could build your image in this historical process of bichromated rubber. We hope that you will be encouraged to create your images in this beautiful process. You will see that you will love this technique and its possibilities. Before finishing this course, We want to give you some final tips for making your rubber. Choose your image taking into account the entire process involved, be it an illustration, a personal ph...”

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Course summary for: Gum Bichromate: Alternative Photo Printing

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (52)
• 1803 students
• 5 units
• 15 lessons (1h 52m)
• 17 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Arts & Crafts, DIY, Film Photography, Fine Arts, Printing