After working on the instructions for the matting and framing and being bored out of my gourd, I moved onto another photo transfer. This time it was an image of a red hibiscus in the sun (taking inside the house) with a black background. I have to say, I think it's the best one yet. Not all images work in this medium - and this one is really awesome. I barely added some water color to a couple of areas. I think I'm getting the process down a little better: soak the 140 lb water color paper in warm water for 30 seconds, increase the ink saturation to 'heavy', and I only pressed downward with the palms of my hands v. rubbing the palm of my hands across the page. I find that tends to leave more blank spaces in the image and it pushes the image around to much.
After that I moved on to selecting four images from my European trip that were digital and changed them into black and white images, increasing the contrast a little more, printed them out at 3.5 x 4.5. I had purchased some small antique frames last year and was going to put darkroom prints in them for sale at the gallery. However, I decided to keep these little babies myself and I have to say they came out rather nice. The frames are a light maple color and I used the same aged mats that were in them. I arranged them with an etching of Venice that is framed and 11x14 that I already had hanging in the "Paris" guest room. They look tres chic! I love making art!
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