"Jars in the Window" ~ Gum Layer #4 ~ Split Colors

As I near the finish of the gum print the applied colors are more and more specifically target. My intent being enhancing the print image without altering the color scheme desired. I tend to balance the image with cool and warm tones playing off each other. That's just me. My interpretation of the scene. In this print image the warm toned portion of the print is in the inside foreground area, made up of wood. Outside the window is brilliant sunshine many stops over the inside, thus the printing has to address both density ranges.

A thin mixture of Raw Umber was brushed thinly over the inside of the window, much of which was manipulated off with warm water and stiff artist's brush after the rest of the print had been floated one minute ~ @ 65℉ ~ then the portions I wanted to thin out, which was the highlights within the wood area on the bottom and right side, respectively, was submerged in warmed water to approximately 80℉, for a few seconds before brushing the highlight areas I wanted to stay uncoated,  unaffected by the raw umber layer. This helped strengthen the image by separating the tones within the interior, and setting up for the final very sheer layer of quinacridone gold over that interior only, to brighten the highlights, darken the shadows. The area of the window and outside the window is finished, sans the final clearing bath in sodium bisulfite. That eliminates the yellow dichromate stain, which is masking the colors underneath. Blue is green before, green becomes darker, brown becomes deeper.

Knowing when to stop is more important than one might think. There are unlimited ways in which to influence the outcome of the print. Literally unlimited possibilities, only held back by the printer. I didn't post Layer #3 simply because it was a thin layer of ochre to further influence the interior and set up for the raw umber layer after that. For me, the only way to discern how to proceed in a gum printing is to study the image, get lost into the scene, "see" how it is to be, and only then is it possible to lay out a strategy for how to accomplish that, layer by layer.

Gum over Palladium
"Jars in the Window" ~ 8x10
Eugene, Oregon