3 week course cyanotype and gum bichromate – Martyn Grimmer
£150
For beginners and refreshers. During this course you will learn the historic processes of cyanotype & gum bichromate printing.
Tuesday 10 January – 24 January 2022
1.30pm-4.30pm
Cost £150
During this 3-week course you will learn the historic processes of Cyanotype & Gum Bichromate printing. You will begin with photographs, analogue or digital, and process them through Adobe Photoshop as digital negatives onto film.
Cyanotype is a photographic process that involves two chemicals to coat the paper to make it sensitive to UV light, resulting in a deep prussian blue image. You will also have the chance to tone the cyanotypes, with tea and coffee with remarkable effect. Cyanotype is one of the simpler alternative processes and is a great introduction to alternative photography.
With Gum Bichromate, a combination of Gum Arabic, pigment/watercolour, and sensitiser are used to coat the paper, upon which negatives are placed during exposure to ultraviolet light. You will work with cyanotype prints and overlay a colour with gum bichromate to create beautiful duotones
Spaces available