Friday, October 14, 2011

Van Dyke process

Last Friday I did a great workshop with Wendy Currie. She showed us how to use the Van Dyke photographic process to create some very interesting images.
The Van Dyke process is an 'alternative' photographic process where paper is sensitised with light sensitive emulsion and then an image is exposed on it using a UV source (the sun or a light box). We uses a UV light box. The result is a lovely brown toned image in ... Van Dyke brown.
Best to look at Wendy's lovely images here
Here are mine:

The 2 images above were photos I took and transferred to acetate to make a contact print.
So are the 2 images below - same process.

 

The images below combine collage, found objects and contact negatives






It was a very successful workshop

2 comments:

Adriana Cosshall said...

Really love this work. It is so seamless

Adriana Cosshall said...

Really love this work. It is so seamless