Daniel P. Lopez Alternative processes

These cyanotypes serve as drafts for comics I am beginning to create. The "action"/narrative of the comics occur in the thin white lines, with the blue of the cyanotype serving as the borders. The colours serve as abstract indicators of occurrences, suggesting mood?content?emotion?etc.

This is a step for me in using drawing as a "medium," using a technique more naked than painting, video, photography, and whatever else falls in my spectrum. This work is not about pushing boundaries between media, but more of possessing them and intersecting them as if they are holograms. 

This is work based on a true story. I am finding the importance of utilizing real experiences, and integrating them into my practice without it being selfishly about myself. It's personal, yet I feel making an ad to sell a watch turning into a sob story is reaching out to an involuntary audience can possibly move someone to tears... although I doubt this will be seen amidst the hundreds of ads posted in the clothes/accessories section. 

I also enjoy making the process and/or results more complicated than they need to be. I did take a digital photo of this watch composition, but I decided to use the longer process: slide film > scan > made into digital negative > cyanotype > scanned again. This is reflected in the use of the sob story, instead of being a totally straightforward ad.

Growlr is a smartphone application. It uses GPS to determine the distance between the user and goofy bears. Because I do not have my own smartphone, I use John Tolles', so we have a joint account. I decided to create a profile photo for the both of us in Van Dyke.

This is my salt print. It's the show poster for Gigli 2, the show about portals. I encourage everyone to return back to 3 November 2014 to view it. I am not sure how to time travel backwards, sorry.

These 2 lumen(s) prints refer to Gigli 2.

This is a pinhole image of a really cute stuffed bear resting upon a cute rock. If artwork isn't cute, then what's the point?

This is very much a work-in-progress. I'm using a peanut butter jar to take these pinhole shots. It's based on a response to a post I did on Craigslist. I was having too much difficulty with the errant sunshine for the left/bottom left ones, and still need to re-do them. I need to work on the superficial surface of the camera, but I must wait until I have the photos done, or I might mess it up. I also need another shot, but during a day without fickle weather. I hope to complete this soon.

These three guys are screenshots of ads I put up on Craigslist, all of them things I wanted to sell, especially since I was moving to a new house. These are all items purchased by my ex, that I have been mentioning (sometimes without reason) in these posts. There was one offer for the rollerblades, but it seemed like a scam, and I still have them waiting to be sold. I decided to do take-backsies on the TV, since I figured out that I could actually use it. There have been no replies to the vacuum ad. The final form of these are undecided, so they will remain as such for now.

Griffin Lumen Print

When I started experimenting with lumen printing, I was really interested in the different chemical reactions that would happen. I dipped both of these objects into fixer and then placed them onto my undeveloped paper. As the paper exposed I could see the build up of fixer starting to take effect and it slowly made deep black puddles.  I learned from this print to be a little more carful when dipping object into the chemicals and placing them on the paper because any excess chemicals will drip onto the paper as well and start to create reactions.

caely brandon-lumens print

This is an alternative development study with a lumens print using a page from the babyons. I exposed the print for 6 days on a sunny counter, then scanned the image as soon as I freed it from the contact printing frame. I continued to scan to observe the exposure process--it took around 30 seconds to rescan the image each time, with a 5 second waiting period between the scanner exposure.

This is an experiment/work in progress. The changes are very subtle and difficult to see on a computer screen, but will be noticeable when there are more than 8 copies printed to hang on a wall.

I chose to scan the image rather than process it in the darkroom because I am SO enchanted by the colors exposed on the black and white paper. I am also interested in how re-scanning an image can either enhance or diminish it. For example, rescanning scans (a scan of a scan of a scan--ha!) of a photo disintegrates the image into tiny dots until only white paper exists. Does this image degrade when scanned over and over as well? Or is it improved by the light of the scanner?

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Sierra Rose Gault

I found the processes of both Lumens printing and Cyanotype very engaging. I love the directness of the process, i love my camera but it's really fun to see the object translated straight onto the paper. My favorite was the Lumens process because of what i see as endless possibilities, I can't wait to experiment more with different mediums. For this quick project I wanted to focus solely on the basic process without any extra complications, to get a grasp on how it worked before throwing in extra variables. I feel I did it well, my prints are crisp and clear. The subject matter is straight forward, i focused mainly on found flora and fauna to see how different biochemicals would react with the paper and explore a more serene style. I love this class already with just the 2 new techniques I've learned, I can't wait to see what we do next! VanDykeBrown- Flower, Salted Print- Landscape, Lumens/ChemoGram- Leaves I love experimenting and figuring out these processes. for my final i had planned on mixing Cyanotype and Van Dyke but the colors reacted badly with each other. Now i'm printing double layered neg.'s on Vandyke the effect makes the figures look erie and like they are forming out of the "textured" neg. for displaying in the gallery i want to play with that idea further like the art is forming outward from the prints. i want to add collage onto the print and float a frame out from the wall. All thoughts and works in process so we'll see what actually happens. Pin HOle SO MUCH FUN!!! i made my other pin hole camera's out of an altoid box and a cigar box. the Altoid tin is great for on the go work, it's small but makes great images!!! i like how you can see the papers curve in the cigar box, it adds dimension and shows "the artists hand". the altoid tin creates such depth for something that is so small and shallow.

Project 1 Print- Carlson

I have been experimenting in a variety of ways to modify alternative processes that I've already learned to produce interesting results.  One such route that interests me is doing lumens prints on film rather than photo paper. The difficulty involved in maneuvering the film/subject is both aggravating and engrossing- very much a love/hate relationship. Additionally, the transparency factor, size constraints, and ability to enlarge the image are highly intriguing to me; I plan on experimenting with different sizes of film and potentially throwing chemogram techniques into the fray (more so than using my chemistry pens, that is.) Of the work I presented, I feel that a scan of the actual film is the best representation of my efforts- with the 35mm format, there is (at least for me) an illusion that the subject is disproportionately huge when printed through an enlarger with the sprocket holes included. I'm hoping that I can modify my techniques to make the "truth" of the image less distinct, so it's less clear that it's a contact print!

Zeal Lumens Print

For my lumens prints I decided to use a collage based image. I saw how beautiful the depth and blending of images and words were in other students lumens prints and cyanotypes. So naturally, I had to do it. I found visually interesting images and text and then ripped it out and organized it accordingly along with some of my old negatives. Mostly I just loved the varying colors and depths of the images, especially on the cool tone paper.

The Cyanometer_repost

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