i haven’t been using a camera much these days. i have film to be processed (probably 10 rolls ?) some taken a while ago, some taken since the spring. i haven’t gotten around to processing it. not to mention i have some liquid emulsion ( foma and AG+) to use up and i eagerly anticipate making some of my own chlorobromide emulsion again with some nice hard bloom gelatin. instead of camera negatives i’ve been waxing paper negatives made from rubbings ( like the last entry ) or things made as a photogram, ( always a favorite ) or better yet, paper xerox negatives that i wax and have fun with …
a few years ago i got a bad case of food poisoning while traveling in france and when i got home i had some film to process, and a few memory cards with images on them. i was kind of messed up from being sick when i got home ( until i wasn’t ) and while i found one of the memory cards’ images, i am still kind of looking for the other. i took some of these images specifically for converting to paper negatives and into cyanotypes. i had done this with rubbings and digital images before, and it seemed like a great way to make digital images into hybrid black and white negatives. so i desaturated some negatives, and inverted them in PS and put them 4-to a 8 1/2 x11 sheet of xerox paper … heated up an old pan and waxed the paper … in addition, to a big sheet of cyanotype paper, i had a handful of envelopes i coated a handful of months ago, and they were eager to be printed on.
i made some photograms using kitchen-stuff and crayoned and watercolored the images. i don’t know what size envelopes are, but they are the perfect paper for making cyanotypes. nice and long and narrow, like a panoramic negative !
anyhow her eare some of the images i made …
