Jars in the Window ~ 8th Coat

The final full coating has been applied, using cyan. That is because it is the triad of color I've been using to build up the textural detail, each layer; Magenta, Yellow, Cyan. The K or black layer began the printing process, laying out the overall structure of the image and setting up the blacks. The shift away from yellowish, to bluish is visible, as well as a bit more detail in the wood and brick of the foreground. The window frame is also at zone 7, ranging from lighter to darker, from bottom to top respectively.

The next color layers will be applied locally to specific areas. I will use a Hooker's Green or Forest Green for the foliage, Turquoise mix for the house wall, which is what it was, black on the facia board tar run under the roof. The print time will be increased about five minutes to print down that dense (in the negative) area. The temperature of the float bath has been around 65 degrees so far, leaving me a lot of room for floating off overprinted gum. It was necessary to do this for this layer, in the lower and darker area of the interior foreground, the wood, brick and cement counter top. I merely slid the print in 90 degree water gently, moving side to side then down to the lower area and back. That removed a bit more blue that hadn't floated off with the color in the highlight area. Local manipulation in the gentle sense, using warmer water, but not yet demanding brush work to further the removal of more gum. There are a number of natural tools at hand for a gum printer.

What is left to do after the full printing is clearing in a bisulfate bath which clears the yellow dichromate stain, which would amount to about a 1/4 to 1/2 shade of yellow less. The detail outside the window continues to fill in. The print time will now increase for those high densities.

Jars in the Window ~ 8th Print layer