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I wasn't sure where to post this, but since it's by and large a photo, this wins the turkey.
This started out as a printout of an infrared shot of Kodachrome Basin, with Kodak HIE film. I printed it out on plain white copy paper and first made a gelatin "skin" like the one I described here, but this time, after I coated the image with a couple of layers of gel medium, I painted it. I just bought a set of Golden Open acrylics, they are touted as being slow drying, and I thought this was a good way to test them.
After I was done painting the image, I let it dry overnight and then put another 2 layers of gel medium over the acrylic paint. Once dried completely, I soaked the copy paper that was supporting all of this so I could gently rub off the paper and reveal nothing but the clear gel medium skin, with the painted image embedded within.
Here it is with most of the paper rubbed off (there's a little rip at the top that I fixed later with more gel medium):
Laid out over a white background, it looks like this:
Since it's transparent, I also laid it over a sheet of yellow cardstock to see what it did with the clear clouds, etc:
I'm not certain how I'll mount it yet. I'll need to trim the white border off. At the moment I'm wondering why I send myself down these rabbit holes.
All comments are welcomed and appreciated - thanks for looking!
This started out as a printout of an infrared shot of Kodachrome Basin, with Kodak HIE film. I printed it out on plain white copy paper and first made a gelatin "skin" like the one I described here, but this time, after I coated the image with a couple of layers of gel medium, I painted it. I just bought a set of Golden Open acrylics, they are touted as being slow drying, and I thought this was a good way to test them.
After I was done painting the image, I let it dry overnight and then put another 2 layers of gel medium over the acrylic paint. Once dried completely, I soaked the copy paper that was supporting all of this so I could gently rub off the paper and reveal nothing but the clear gel medium skin, with the painted image embedded within.
Here it is with most of the paper rubbed off (there's a little rip at the top that I fixed later with more gel medium):
Laid out over a white background, it looks like this:
Since it's transparent, I also laid it over a sheet of yellow cardstock to see what it did with the clear clouds, etc:
I'm not certain how I'll mount it yet. I'll need to trim the white border off. At the moment I'm wondering why I send myself down these rabbit holes.
All comments are welcomed and appreciated - thanks for looking!