Art 4997 - Alternative Photographic Processes

  I was very excited initially, but this process is definitely proving to be way more difficult and time consuming than I expected. I initially tried making a test print with the green paper to see how long it would take, thinking it would be two-three day max. Well, after the third day of leaving it to sit there next to my window I still saw not even the slightest hint of an image forming. I think I have an idea of why this is happening, but its still very frustrating as I don't have much of a solution. I live on campus in an apartment building and my only option is to let it sit by my open window and get as much sunlight as I can. The problem is the sun only directly hits the prints for a few specific hours each day. I know that I could get more sun exposure by simply going outside to find more direct sunlight, but this isn't exactly feasible when I need to be in my apartment attending zoom meetings or going to work pretty much everyday. I can't just take my prints outsid...

  So far, my Anthotype project is going really well. I was so excited about the process of making your own colored paper from organic materials and immediately knew that I wanted to try several different colors. I think that each print will be a different color and that I will try to match the mood of the color to the picture itself. I started out with flowers, marigolds and gerberas to be exact. The marigolds actually produced the vibrant, orange color that I was going for which was very exciting. I will say that I only had a bullet blender to use and I do think it was a bit of a challenge to actually get the flowers to blend well without adding way too much liquid. I initially only ran it through my fine mesh food strainer and I quickly figured out that this was not good enough as my paper clearly had chunks of solid material on it. I ended up having these little mesh gift bags from the dollar tree which worked amazing at fully straining the emulsion. After that, I tried the gerb...