Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
<deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> 
> There you go Mark! I've thought about doing this about 2 years ago but
> I FORGOT all about doing it. Yes, I will try that. I assume you are
> already doing it ;-). 
> 
> I had a teacher many years ago Todd Walker, who specialized in very
> high end oil based photo silk screen work, with each element built up
> on top of and and overlapping the next. He would normally use about 20
> printings for one image (20 screens)! Some of them could go up to 50
> or more. They were the most opulant use of color photography that I
> had ever seen. Most of this transparency effect was the result of
> these subtle, often thin layers of color acting as opacity layers with
> "endless possibilities". I know exactly what you are talking about and
> it is time I tried it. Later Todd did the same technique by running
> rag paper sheets over and over again through an offset press, each
> layer was a different inked plate.
> 
> If he were alive today I know he would be doing this on the Epson
> printers, no doubt about it. It is time I tried some of that, not just
> for creating warm backgrounds but also for color work. It aint the
> same as making opacity masks in Photoshop. That is a totally different
> ballgame.

If you want a different ballgame, try loading the printer with black
paper, loading some Epson carts with gum Arabic solution, and printing
in that transparent adhesive.

Then after it dries, tack it down, spritz it with water, and dust it
with powdered white enamel, brass dust, or mica powder...

Or try making a mask for "accents" on a color inkjet print, make one
pass with normal inks, a second pass for the gum accents, wet and
powder...