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Monday, September 10, 2012

Chemical Experiments

I am starting with household chemicals:

Tea staining; a lot darker than I expected. The concentration was probably too high.


Lemon juice+water (L), borax (M), peroxide-water-baking soda (R).  It is hard to see the effects in the photograph.  The lemon juice added more value range, the borax gave a slightly more violet tint but also washed it out (I did not like the results), and the peroxide-baking soda brought out the mid tones and sharpened the image nicely.


I tried the vandyke/cyanotype combo again BUT put a diluted vandyke solution over the cyanotype.


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