Chapter 2 Overview, and Making Your First Carbon Transfer Print
Figure 2.1 Bent Tree, 11ʺ × 14ʺ on Lana Aquarelle, over coated with gelatin, © Donald Nelson 2015
Figure 2.2 Painted Hills, 11ʺ × 14ʺ on Lana Aquarelle, © Donald Nelson 2015
Carbon transfer printing is a contact printing process that creates an image composed of pigmented UV-hardened gelatin on a substrate. A negative is placed in contact with a sensitized sheet of carbon tissue that you have created, and then the sandwich is exposed to UV light. The light hardens the pigmented gelatin, ...
Get Carbon Transfer Printing now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
