My first completed project for this semester. Huzzah! This was my first time working with lino printmaking, a method of printmaking that involves carving sheets of linoleum. It was very easy to work with and super fun. My concept of a sapling framed by adult trees is pretty straightforward. I chose a cheery yellow and a friendly green for a fun, fresh, and optimistic vibe. Arbor Day Celebration Poster Traditional Communication Studio with Christian Dunn Spring 2018
Made my first chemograms and chemigrams today. Both are experimental silver-gelatin based photographic techniques. Chemograms are a combination of a photographic exposure and chemical resists, while chemigrams are made only with chemical resists. I used a combination of butter, cooking spray, and honey to achieve the results seen in the following four images. Adv. Darkroom Photography / Fall 2017 Further Learning Chemigram; Wikipedia Chemogram; Wikipedia Lomography; Cameraless Photography: How to Create Chemigrams Photo Tech Mag; Father of the Chemigram: An Interview with Pierre Cordier f/138; An Introduction to the Chemigram Process Alternative Photography; The Chemigram
One of the things I enjoy the most about darkroom photography is the experimentation the process seems to promote. We've made photograms, traditional negative prints with both 35mm film, and 120 mm film shot with a Holga, and we recently experimented with toning prints. Now I'm excited to be playing with a technique I discovered from Kristine Thompson while attending the Society for Photographic Education South Central conference in Waco, Texas last month. Kristine creates photograms by placing light-sensitive paper on the screen of her laptop and then developing it to reveal the image. It sounds easy but it's kind [...]
I was going to wait till tonight to work in the darkroom again but decided to go work last night after getting the notice that the university would be closed today and tomorrow. I lost track of time and spent about five hours in the lab making 27 new photograms. A few were tests to see what kind of results different materials would produce. I discovered that I love the texture Vaseline adds. Baby powder, tea, and water droplets also create interesting effects. Here's one of my favorite images from tonight. It's a 5 x 8" photogram of a wrapper. The [...]
Photograms exploring repetition. The circles created by the elastic bands were super fun, but if you look closely you can see some of my hair which was apparently still attached. It's hard to see things like hair and small specs in the darkroom. I bought a new, untainted, bag of elastic bands so I can hopefully get a cleaner circle image. -fingers crossed- Photograms are photographic images made without a camera by placing objects on the surface of light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The result is a negative shadow [...]
