Anthotype experiments

Here are all the Anthotype experiments I have done! I did most of these for the proposal...

First of I bought some Marigold flowers and these random blue ones. The Marigold ones already had flowers on, and I took this after I picked them.

And some boysenberries. I couldn't find fresh ones.

And some random pink flowers in our garden.

Then I crushed and squeezed all I could using a garlic crusher and sieve (which I seem to have lost the photo of??)

Then I got my Juices!

random pink flower

Boysenberry

Marigold. Got hardly and I had about 6 flowers.

I also added a bot of Vodka to them all.

Then I painted the paper and put them on the window.

I put the OHP up 1st, then the paper, then black paper behind so light can't get at the back of the paper.

          

Results!

And then the same again for a second test, except I used

blackcurrent juice

and blackberries and strawberries

Then I sieved it etc

The strawberry and blackberry jucie didnt't come to much, so I didn't seive it as vigorously, so I didn't lose heaps of liquid

Painting it on. as you can see the strawberry and the blackberry look pretty useless. I'm sure fresh would turn out a lot better. I made the blackcurrant on the right all blotchy on purpose to see what happens. 

Over easter at home I tried on fabric with things from mums vege garden

                                          Red sliverbeet, green sliver beet, egg plant leaves.

I used the blender and a little bit of hot water to make these.

Then in the sieve.

Then the sock to give it a finer sieve.

The emulsions.

I added Vodka again

I found that it was easiest to just put all the fabric in  the emulsion. 

I didn't want to risk breaking mums printer so I drew on the OHP with vivid. (I traced)

Then I put them on a plank of wood, taped them down, glad wrapped them,

and left them in the sun for a week.

And the didn't turn out very well. Way to faint. 

red sliver beet

This last one was all the emulsions mixed.

With this one, the back turned out better than the front. front up back below.

Green sliver beet

And absolutely nothing with the eggplant leaves.

When I got back to Wellington I tried with spinach, and with Black current again.

Heres the paper, before exposure

Up on the 21st April. Down on 8th May.
And it did not work that well at all! which is not a good sign for my finals...

You can see a faint shape with the spinach on the right, but the black currents gone pretty weird. I put the paper up a week after I had put the emulsion on it, so maybe that made it not work? Also looks like the spinach could have done with some more layers.