Photography: Archival Toning Methods

Note that each of the following photos are from the same negative and have only been altered by their post-darkroom chemical baths (No photoshop). The photos go as follows: control photo, sepia, shortened sepia, sepia + selenium, selenium, sepia bleach only, selective sepia bleaching.

Small Landscape Painting

Oil on gessoed panel 5x2''

"Nevada Hills"

Oil on canvas board. Photo reference taken on my phone while driving across middle-of-nowhere Nevada. 

"Mountain Shadows"

Oil on canvas. Photo reference taken on my cell phone while in Sierra Nevade Range / Yosemite National Park. 

"Lenora & Denny"

Oil on canvas board (ground of GAC 100). View of street from painting studio window, 6th floor Lenora & Denny. 

"Portrait of a Man"

Oil on canvas board. Nude model from class i.e. no photo reference. 

"Green Ocean Cliffs"

Oil on canvas board. Photo reference courtesy of Flickr. 

"Two Trees"

Oil on canvas board. Plein Air study at Terrace Ridge Park. 

"Construction"

Oil on canvas board. Painted while looking out the window of my photography studio, 6th floor Lenora & Terry. 

"Waterfall in Shadow"

Oil on canvas board. Photo reference taken with my cell phone camera while entering Yosemite National Park / Sierra Nevada Range. 

"Light Beam"

Oil on canvas. Photo reference courtesy of Flickr. 

"The Haystack"

Oil on canvas. Photo reference courtesy of Flickr. 

"Red and Yellow"

Oil on canvas. Still life painted in class + extra studio work from photo reference taken prior. 

"Yellowstone Blue"

Oil on Cardboard. Photo reference taken on my cell phone camera last summer when I was in Yellowstone National Park.

Woodcuts

Two woodcuts I created for my Printmaking 2 course at Cornish. 

Moleskine Pages

Arranged for you on the page that follows is an assortment of sketches from the past three weeks -- multiple media and multiple minds.

Linocut Prints

They say it cuts like butter but looks better on floors.

Reliefs your trials and tribulations, and definitely much more.

One is spiny and bitter the other a breeze but only for those with remarkable ease. 

Ephemeral Photos

For a project in my photography 2 class. Assignment: take ephemeral-looking photos. Work in progress. . .