"Yellow Rose" ~ Gum Dichromate Print

The "Yellow Rose" print is finally finished. That had to wait until the Rose Bu\d print was finished, to use the printing board. The digital copy of the print falls short of the much richer yellow color of the petals that are lit up by the sun.  The brilliance of the sun on the petals that was the focus of the printing. There is also just a bit of visual penetration to the background, like a zone 2 shadow, where there is no texture or detail but it  an be seen that something is there. In the  digital copy the background just went dark. A failure in copying, not the print.

 This is the second flower print of what will become a portfolio of such prints. More roses, both red and yellow to print  for the rest of my life, as well as desert flowers, singly, close up, as this one, and some of a field of flowers.  I will be treating the different flower prints in different ways, some, holding to the original colors and some will be shaped in ways to enhance the print image. Two prints in process is The Blue Goose, an historic train that was still active when the image was taken, in 1982, and Capt Jack, the first print I have begun altering, to be something that would never be seen in reality. Stayed tune for that one.

 "Gum Dichromate Print ~ Unique                                                                                                                  8"x10" ~ Fabriano Artistica 140lb hot press watercolor paper