“WaterWomen Oyster Planting” – Silver Leaf

{click on image to see the sharper version}

This is another inkjet on silver leaf print. The original is a 35mm negative scanned and printed on silver leaf on acrylic paint and watercolor paper. The paper is 13×20 inches. Too big to scan, so this is a digital photo of the finished print. It fairly well approximates the look of the print. However, since it is on silver leaf it has a lot of reflection, depending on where and how it is viewed.

I am learning to appreciate the irregularity of the print, and its marks from the process.

One for Silver Leaf

I reworked this “Tarnished Mirror” image [see previous post] to be printed on silver leaf.  What I would really like to do is print on silver leaf or silver acrylic ground on Arches cover, black.  Will have to give that a try. I think this one is actually a bit better than the original.

Printing on Gold & Silver Leaf

Here are three more digital prints on gold and silver leaf.  Photographing these so they truly reproduce the way the prints look, is something I have not been able to pull off.  These are fairly close, but I feel they still look much better and interesting  in ‘real life.’
They are all on 13×20 inch watercolor paper, with the metal leaf adhered to a ground of acrylic paint.

The top one is from a Holga panorama, the bottom left one from a 35 mm black and white negative, and the gold leaf one from three merged digital layers.