I’ve come at last to a point where my oilprints actually look like some… The recipe was simple : I just didn’t use the right ink. I was using oil paint, but what is needed in this process really is lithographic ink which is much thicker than oil paint. In this case I’ve used 1 part oil paint with 5 parts lithographic ink.
One of the appeals of oil prints is that is allows for “artistic interpretation” of the image, which means that you can work with the image with a brush. I’m not at that point yet, and the image you see here is made using an ink roller, and dabbing the ink with an absorbing paper to clear the light areas and eliminate the lines associated with the roller…
This week was very busy for me, so my photographic production was not very diversified… I mainly did still lives of objects I have around here, so I can get the exposure of my Type-55 polaroid film just right… This is the hilt of my sword… I do historical fencing and this is my practice weapon, nice textures to try to get right, the metal, the leather of the handle… Exposure 15 seconds, window light…
Here is this week’s picture : My experimentations with Polaroid 59 in the last few has been very interesting, and I’ve come across a problem inherent to the process : Darker areas of the image, like the hair here, have a tendency to “stick” to the negative, and not transfer properly to the paper. The photo shoot which gave this image started as another concept entirely, with various clothes as the subject, but the darker areas of the clothes tended to stick, and so the images are not very usable, and I did one nude, and it gave a good result, so I’ve finished to shoot with nudes. I’ve also determined that the best paper for my polaroid transfer in Hot Pressed watercolor paper, there seems to be not many varieties of this paper, and in the size I am using, only Arches offer proper paper… Hope you like it !
