New Print ~ Gum over Palladium

One of the pains of fine printing is simply that the printer is never, usually, ever satisfied with any given print, realizing there are other ways of printing the image, perhaps so much better than the avenue chosen. You know who you are, and how that affects your printing. The now finished gum print "Jars in the Window" is indeed one of those. If I continued printing that image, each iteration would be a little bit better than the last. Which is exactly why it is supremely important to know when to stop that practice.

The next print will begin a series of such prints, gum over palladium prints. Each of these will be unique, as any print I make now is, that has anything to do with gum printing partial or otherwise. Gum printing is not something that is copied faithfully from one print to the next. Each is absolutely unique, if you are doing it correctly. This image is one  I have been wanting to get to, but up until now I hadn't resolved how I was going to treat it, or even which medium to use. Part of the ceiling time the other evening was spent on just that question. What came of that was a hybrid, printing gum over a warm toned palladium print. This print will begin a series of such 8x10 gum over palladium prints to come. Each will be unique.

Palladium toned Kallitype
"Vicar's Window" ~ 8x10 ~ Base layer for gum layers to come