Preparation & use for Siderotypes: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Argyrotype, Ziatype, and the silver halide process of B&W silver gelatin v.1.5
The Special Edition Art Project was created to afford photographers and artists practical access to the creation of wet-processed photographic prints. This photographic processes user guide focusses instruction on classic B&W silver gelatin printmaking as well as the historic light-sensitive iron based Siderotypes processes of Cyanotype (iron), Vandyke Brownprint, aka VDB, (silver / gold), Argyrotype (silver / gold), and Ziatype (palladium … Read more
Siderotype Paper Survey: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brownprint, Ziatype v1.0
This detailed paper survey is the Special Edition Art Project effort to document how papers behave when paired with historic Siderotype processes used in our coastal California working environment. The Siderotype processes Cyanotype (iron), Vandyke Brownprint (silver) aka VDB, and Ziatype (palladium / gold / tungsten / platinum) are the focus of this survey, creating an assessment of a paper’s … Read more
The palladium and platinum salts, Part 3: The Recipes and Bibliography
Jean-Claude Mougin shares his text on Palladium in 3 parts, Part 1: The Object, Part 2: The Technique and Part 3: The Recipes and Bibliography (this article). Writer and photography / Jean-Claude Mougin Read the previous article The palladium and platinum salts, Part 2: The Technique WARNING The Platino-Palladiotype process involves chemicals which should be regarded as potentially harmful. It … Read more
The palladium and platinum salts, Part 2: The Technique
Jean-Claude Mougin shares his text on Palladium in 3 parts, The palladium and platinum salts, Part 1: The Object, Part 2: The Technique (this article) and The palladium and platinum salts, Part 3: The Recipes and Bibliography (coming soon). Writer and photography / Jean-Claude Mougin Read the previous article The palladium and platinum salts, Part 1: The Object Note from … Read more
The palladium and platinum salts – Part 1: The Object
Jean-Claude Mougin shares his text on Palladium in 3 parts, The palladium and platinum salts, Part 1: The Object (this article), The palladium and platinum salts, Part 2: The Technique and Part 3: The Recipes and Bibliography. Writer and photography / Jean-Claude Mougin The substance of art is not substance The matter of art is not matter The subject of … Read more
Roger Kockaerts makes Palladium triplets: The World of Random Nucleation
Roger Kockaerts explains his way of working with Palladium prints to create his beautiful abstract prints. Writer and photography / Roger Kockaerts The different chemical baths used in photography are mostly constituted by dry crystals of different chemical origin diluted in water in order to obtain a colorless liquid. These transparent baths offer a rather monotonous vision in their plastic … Read more
Improve your Siderotypes with fumed silica pre-treatment
Fumed Silica treatment can improve details in your Siderotypes, but be careful, it’s not chemistry without risk as Giorgio Bordin tells us. Writer and photography / Giorgio Bordin Fumed Silica, as it’s commonly said, (CAS 112945-52-5) is also known as pyrogenic silica because it is produced in a flame. It consists of an extremely fine white powder made of microscopic … Read more
A Non-Silver Manual: Palladium
The chapter called “Palladium” of Sarah Van Keuren’s book “A Non-Silver Manual: Cyanotype, Vandyke Brown, Palladium & Gum Bichromate with instructions for making light-resists including pinhole photography”.
Carrier Clear Coating For Printing Platinum/Paladium/Gold And Pigment On Glass
Bill Winkler shows us how to coat glass for platinum and palladium printing.