Putting up Anthotypes

In keeping with the whole environmental and sustainability theme, I tried to buy as much organic and NZ grown ingredients as I could find... 

My Marigolds

The blue flowers that didn't flower. Must be because of winter I think.

Black current juice. made in NZ and grown in NZ.

Calendula flowers. These looked interesting and I thought they might colour so I bought them. Organic.

Organic rasberries.

Organic tumeric.

Organic sliver beet.

Organic blueberries

Organic beetroot.

This is the process I used for all of the juice making. (appart from I grated the beetroot 1st etc)

So first I used a sieve and spoon to get the juice.

Then I used a tea towel to make the juice finer and get rif of any little seeds.

Withe the Sliver beet and the calendula flowers, I soaked them in hot water first, to soften them up.

Then you have juice!

I had more juice from somethings and not much from others, so as I put the juice in a cup, I added a cap full of vodka (just the cheap $10 stuff), so that there would be the same amount of vodka in each juice. Then I used a roller to put it on the paper.

Then a sponge brush to smooth it out. (the blackcurrant emulsion is seen here)

The blueberry juice didn't bring up much colour at all, the juice was redy purple. So it ill be interesting to see how it turns out. 

Once the raspberry dried it went a pale purple. You can see the difference here with the wet 2nd coat on the left and the dired pale purple coat on the right.

3rd coat.

And on and on. I did 2 or 3 coats per page.

And then I put them on my window.

So heres what I did in the video...

Put up OHP neg

Put up paper

Put hard cardboard behind them to help make the OHP and paper flush

Ran out of tape and realized I needed black paper as black fabric I had had light coming through

Got black paper and put it up to stop light coming in from behind.