$675.00
Tri-Color Gum Printing Workshop with Diana Bloomfield
October 26, 27, 28 2024
9 am – 5 pm
Tuition: $675.00
Thank you to our sponsor Hahnemühle, we love your paper!
Cancellation Policy:
30 days or more: Full refund, minus $25 service fee
29 days – 21 days: 75% minus $25 service fee
20 days – 14 days: 50% minus $25 service fee
13 days or less: nonrefundable
If you are unable to register, the workshop may be full. Please email Karen to be placed on a waiting list. Karen@lightartspace.com
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Description
Tri-Color Gum Printing Workshop with Diana Bloomfield
October 26, 27, 28 2024
9 am – 5 pm
In this intensive three-day workshop, we will learn how to print in the 19th-century photographic process of gum bichromate. Using color separation negatives, we’ll learn how to make multilayered, tri-color gum bichromate prints on watercolor paper.
After mixing an emulsion of watercolor pigment, potassium dichromate, and gum arabic, this mixture is brushed on watercolor paper, dried, and by placing a negative on top it is exposed to UV light.
We then ‘develop’ the prints in plain tap water. Layers are built by repeated coatings and careful registration of negatives until a full, rich image is achieved.
No prior experience with this type of printing is necessary, so join us for three days of fun and experimentation with this interpretive, intuitive, and infinitely creative photographic printing process. Once you experience the joy of gum printing, you will never be the same!
Instructor Bio – Diana Bloomfield
A photographic artist for nearly 40 years, Diana’s work is widely exhibited and published. She was named a Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist in 2014, 2018, 2019, and in 2022. In August of 2021, Diana was honored with Rfotofolio’s 2021 Denis Roussel Award, juried by Christopher James.
Specializing in 19th-century printing techniques, her art has been included in a number of books, including Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique (2004), by Eric Renner; in Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques; and in Christopher James’ The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (2015). She is a featured artist in Christina Z. Anderson’s Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual, Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice (2017); in Cyanotype Toning: Using Botanicals to Tone Blueprints Naturally (2021), by Annette Golaz; and in Jean-Charles Trebbi’s l’art du livre origami (2021).
A native North Carolinian, Diana lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she received her MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University. Go Wolfpack! She teaches workshops throughout the country, and in her beautiful backyard studio.
Diana is represented by The Cardinal Gallery, located in Toronto, Canada, and by photo-eye Gallery (Photographer’s Showcase), in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
