Topic: Liquid Emulsion

[roryot]

Hi again filmwasters! We tried printing on various types of paper coated with liquid emulsion at the Crawford college night class last week. Great fun! Has anyone played around with this technique?  Here's my first attempt, image shot with a Holga and 400 film (HP5 I think), then exposed on a creamy watercolour paper coated with liquid emulsion



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[LT]

hi roryot

if you do a forum search, you should find some threads started by Karl Chapman regarding his adventures with this technique.  It's somethign I'm very keen to have a go at soon too - I cant decide on whether to use the maco vc one or silverprint's own SE1 fixed contrast.  Also workign on paper choice for now - I'd need mine to be archival so an acid free paper is a must.

I like this a lot and the creamy base works well as a warmtone type paper ... it looks like a lith print.

[roryot]

Hi Leon,

I'll look up Karl Chapman - thanks for the tip!

I'm actually not sure what type of emulsion we used in class last week, but I'll be buying some to try some more at home. An interesting was, after the paper was exposed and developed / fixed / washed, but before it was dry, you could move the black parts of the print around with your fingers by rubbing it - could be a useful / interesting technique for manipulation

Rory

[Karl]

Here I am 

April 6th & March 25th are dates of the 2 posts I made. SE1 seemd like an obvous place to start as much of the printed material on liquid light refers to it. Apprantly it's faster than other brands, and as they say, has a higher silver content. Arches Aquarelle Rough 300gms is the best paper surface I've tried but it's early doors. I think when starting out it's good to get something heavy and strong and get more refined after a few trials.  Feel free to email or send a PM if you want to share more info.

[roryot]

Thanks for the reply Karl. I had a read through your previous posts - interesting stuff! I have to admit that I have no real technical details from my first attempt - it was water colour paper, don't know what weight. With regard to drying, mine dried pretty flat - much flatter than FB paper anyway. I just dried it on a piece of card.

I wouldn't put anything on top of the prints, as the emulsion was prone to sliding off when it was wet! I'll post some more when I get around to doing them