This image another flower print. I am finding the yellow roses, daffodils and other flowers have grabbed my attention. A 'primary' color I use in so many prints is Yellow Ochre. Mixed light, and it is a brilliant yellow color. Mixed thicker and it shifts into a golden color, replicating a late afternoon reflected sunlight. Mixed heavy and it becomes a golden brown. Probably one of the most versatile colors in the palate.
Print times, as always, were very important for capturing and holding the highlights, a well as the textural detail of the glass vase the daffodils sit in. What I have been working on over the past months, is altering the gum mixture viscosity, color mixing and print times, to improve on the number of color layers needed to represent the full color scale and spectrum of the print image. That entails more color saturated print layers with a reduced print time, to keep the color within the tonal range desired, below the highlight areas of the print. Thinner mixtures are printed to the highlight areas, such that any excess color can be floated off in a short float time; usually from 1-minute to 2-minutes. This makes up the contrast control for the printing. Print times being a critical element of the process.
Gum Dichromate Print
"Vase with Daffodils" 8x10
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