From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 07/24/01-08:29:50 AM Z
Dave,
I was fascinated by the Indian rock art in Utah and made many
negatives of both petroglyphs and pictographs with my 5X7 and 12X20
camera while there this summer. My intention is to make special
pigment tissue for carbon printing that utilizes the materials used
to paint the pictographs, i.e, the raw umbers of the region. I
brought back lots of earth from the area that I will use to make
pigment but just wondering if you have any specific connections to
commercial artist pigments that may be available that are made from
regional "earths" as their base?
Sandy King
>IMO, there's nothing quite like gum prints made using burnt sienna, raw
>umber, etc.... For years, I've photographed Indian rock art during
>explorations of the western United States. In my attempts to record these
>fantastic scenes, Cibachrome was a waste of time and money. B&W was great
>for certain images. But only gum, using the 'earth tones', really provided
>the means to make prints that truly capture the emotional intensity of
>actually being there and looking at 5,000 year old images scraped and
>painted onto sandstone. For certain subjects, gum prints are the only way.
>
>What do "raw earht gum prints look like?". Like any other medium, some are
>contrived and boring, others are simply amazing. All of them are definitely
>different.
>
>Try it. You'll like it.
>
>Dave Rose
>Cactus Cowboy
>Big Wonderful Wyoming
>
>(snip)
>
>The use of
>> earth pigments really intrigues me - I wonder what raw earht gum prints
>look
>> like?
>>
>> -christine
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