Yesterday dawned bright and sunny. Thus, I was ‘busy’ making anthotypes.
I put ‘busy’ in quotes because making anthotypes is mostly about waiting if you have the paper already prepared. I spent about an hour first thing in the morning gathering and arranging material on various sheets of paper and placed everything out in the sun. The paprika anthotypes only take about an hour to expose but the turmeric anthotypes spent all day sitting outside.
In the early evening, I processed the prints. The images made with paprika get sprayed with an acrylic protective spray. The ones with turmeric get sprayed with 5% sodium carbonate (washing soda). In both cases these treatments are needed to slow the fading of the pigments that form the image.
I used a large chunk of the rest of the day to hand-color several more inkjet prints. More on that later.
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They certainly have that “old school” look to them. It’s as if someone discovered them in a box in the attic. Continue to have fun and keep the colored pencils nearby. . .
Comment by Joe Kennedy — 19 July 2022 @ 7:37 AM