{"id":4733,"date":"2020-05-23T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2020-05-23T11:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:29:19","slug":"cyanotype-on-vellum-back-with-copper-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4733","title":{"rendered":"Cyanotype on Vellum Backed with Copper Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in early April, when I started making cyanotypes again one of the papers I tried out was a cotton vellum I had lying around. I thought it might be interesting to layer the translucent vellum on top of other materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was aware of Dan Burkholder’s work where he backs prints on vellum with gold leaf <\/a>and thought that maybe his methods would work with cyanotypes. I signed up for Dan’s “Inkjet Alternatives Workshop<\/a>” which was scheduled for the end of April. Of course, given the current state of the world the workshop was cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Burkholder’s recently began selling a kit for gilding prints<\/a> so I bought a kit to experiment with. I figured that a workshop would have been ideal but that the kit would get me started. I was intending to learn the materials and method with inkjet prints before moving onto cyanotypes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, as I went to start experimenting with the kit at the beginning of the week, I said to myself… “Self, why not just try with cyanotypes.” So I did! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I chose an image of the Cape d’Or light in Nova Scotia made with my camera obscura for this test. The negative is 4.5 inches square. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a delay of a couple of days during which I made a stock of cyanotypes to experiment with, I began the gilding process on Wednesday. I had my first finished glided (using copper leaf) cyanotype by late yesterday (i.e. Friday) evening. The image is 4.5 inches square and it is mounted in an 8×10 inch mat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here it is, although I don’t think that the scans do it justice:<\/p>\n\n\n

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It has a few flaws which I can hopefully avoid with the next one but it is, I think, not half bad for a first attempt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back in early April, when I started making cyanotypes again one of the papers I tried out was a cotton vellum I had lying around. I thought it might be interesting to layer the translucent vellum on top of other materials. I was aware of Dan Burkholder’s work where he backs prints on vellum with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-processes","category-cyanotype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}