The updated process to the gum printing has been showing good results. The thinner gum mixture works out well, something I wouldn't have believed forty years ago. Thus it is. I am able to brush out a much thinner layer each run, leaving much better textural detail, and, better printing times.
These prints take two weeks to make, give or take. This print received ten color print layers to arrive at a finished level of textural detail, while leaving the brilliance of the image intact. Takes a lot of printing practice. I have settled on a 'color adjustment curve' that works well for gum printing. I created it in Printshop Pro x9 software. Basically Photoshop for digital photography. This density curve was created for platinum/palladium [Na2 ~ 'double sodium' printing. Works quite well for gum as well.
This series of flower images were photographed as reference material for my late wife's watercolor paintings. Now, they will become gum prints, in her honor. So many flower images are shot high contrast, with brightly lit flower in a solid black background. I don't do that.
Gum Dichromate Print
"Lily" 11"x14"
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