Bromoils & Oil Printing 2 Days Ellie Young

OIL PRINTING &  BROMOILS The oil print and bromoil processes create soft images reminiscent of painting but retains a distinctively photographic look.  The painterly qualities of the prints continue to appeal to artists and have recently led some contemporary art photographers to take up these processes again. The workshop is combing the two processes as[…]

Cyanotype and Vandyke Brown on Fabric – Ellie Young-1 day

PRINTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON FABRIC The workshop allows you to create photographs on natural fibres, cotton, linen and silk with a surprising clarity. It provides the following advantages over paper: Movement – especially silks Can be stretched onto a frame Wearable – cyanotype can be printed on clothing items. Décor –  cushion, bed covers and lamp[…]

Colour Reversal RA4 – Ellie Young – 1 Day

RA4 colour reversal direct positive printing uses colour photo paper, exposed in camera with illumination filtration and then processed to give a colour positive image. This is a hands-on workshop: You will be exploring elements of reversal colour  photography using Fuji-film Cristal Archive mat and gloss paper  4 x 5 and 8 x 10 paper.[…]

Combination Printing Gum Over Palladium/ Cyanotype/Ziatype – Ellie Young – 3 days

COMBINATION PRINTING:  GUM OVER CYANOTYPE/PALLADIUM/ ZIATYPE ABOUT THE PROCESS Gum prints are essentially photographically controlled watercolor prints made in a 19th Century process called gum bichromate. Gum arabic is mixed with watercolor paint and photosensitive dichromate, and painted onto paper. When exposed to light in contact with an enlarged negative, the gum hardens into an[…]

Carbon Transfer Four Colour – Ellie Young – 3 Days

Four Colour Carbon ABOUT THE CARBON PROCESS The carbon process, initially a black-and-white process using lampblack (carbon black), was invented by Alphonse Poitevin in 1855. The process was later adapted to color, through the use of pigments, by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron in 1868. Carbon photographs were the preferred process of the top echelon[…]

Opalotypes and Orotones- Ellie Young – 3 Days

ABOUT THE OPALOTYPE PROCESS Opalotypes were printed on sheets of opal white glass; traditional were sometimes hand-tinted with colors to enhance their effect. The basic opalotype technique, involving wet collodion, silver gelatin and to a lesser degree carbon. The Process was patented in 1857 by Glover and Bold ofLiverpool. Opalotypes are created by the carbon[…]

Carbon Transfer Printing – Ellie Young – 2 Days

ABOUT CARBON PRINTING The carbon printing process uses colour pigments producing one of the the most permanent coloured photographs. The use of pigment allows any colour photograph on almost any surface. The beautiful tonal scale resolves fine detail.  It relies upon the ability of sensitized gelatin when exposed to U V light becoming insoluble in[…]

Salt and Albumen Printing – Ellie Young – 1 Day

SALT & ALBUMEN PRINTING: the two processes are closely aliened not only in the history of photography but in the practice of creating these two most beautiful processes. ABOUT THE SALT PRINT: This is a simple process with a number of challenges to master. Salt prints are created by coating paper in a solution of[…]

Lith Printing – Ellie Young – 2 Day

ABOUT LITH PRINTING Lith Prints are usually warm-toned prints with a unique combination of subtle low contrast properties in the highlights, warm mid-tones, and high contrast colder tones in the shadows. It is an extremely flexible process and many variations may be found from highly graphic to soft ethereal effects. Lith prints tone well in selenium[…]

Kallitypes – Ellie Young – 1 Day

ABOUT THE KALLITYPE PRINT: Although often confused with Van Dyke Brown and Argerotypes it is more related to platinum and palladium printing in its evolution and tonal values. Due to this it was known as “the poor man’s platinum print”, when the image is toned in platinum or palladium the result is chemically close to[…]