Traditional Hand-tinted Silver Prints from Digital Captures

Instructor: Sandra C. Davis

Saturday, April 15th
10 am - 4 pm (30 minute lunch break)

Sunday, April 16th
10 am - 4 pm (30 minute lunch break)

Do you miss working in the traditional black and white darkroom? The Halide Project has you covered. If you have converted to shooting digital or haven’t delved into film yet and want to learn the darkroom, here is your chance. We will be making 8” x 10” negatives through the use of Photoshop and ink jet printing. We will use those negatives to make contact prints to black and white fiber-based silver paper. There will be a demonstration of traditional 19th century style of hand-tinting using translucent oils with a contemporary twist.  You will discover how cathartic tinting can be. 

No darkroom experience required. An introduction to the magic of darkroom is part of the class. 

Students will be asked to email two digital files to the instructor in advance of the class to be made into digital negatives. 

Instructor bio: 

Sandra C. Davis is fine art photographer whose haunting imagery is about capturing remembered moments from the past to cherish in the future. Most of her work is printed in gum bichromate, palladium, cyanotype and other alternative photographic processes. She teaches alternative photography classes at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and teaches alternative photography workshops throughout the USA. Her works have been published in several books on alternative processes including: The Book of Alternative Processes, Second and Third Editions by Christopher James as well as Gum Printing and Other Amazing Contact Printing Processes and Gum Printing, A step-by-step Guide, highlighting Artists and their Creative Practices by Christina Z. Anderson. Her award-winning images have been exhibited internationally and are in public, corporate and private collections. Her work can be viewed on her website: www.SandraCDavis.com

This workshop is generously sponsored by The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.