Drum Emulsion Lift

i just bought a polaroid land camera and hope play around with emulsion lifts just for fun...mine of course will be smaller but that's ok. what have you placed this on? i was going to use watercolor paper as i heard you should have a textured surface for an interesting effect...

Great Keith...did you just simply boil it? K

Thanks. Marianne, indeed you can put these emulsions on more interesting substrates... but here's the catch. When they come off the instant film substrate, they will have just enough glue to stick partially, but not enough to stick well! So on a textured/fibre paper, you could get a real mess, with some fibers pulled up and the emulsion partially adhered.

So here is my tack: I boil them off, try to wash off whatever glue is there, and put them on a nonstick paper e.g. glossy inkjet paper. They will dry and come off that, and then you can add some glue and brayer them onto whatever paper you like. I didn't do that with this one, as it was just an experiment, with inadequate washing. Hence you see it partially coming off the inkjet paper. I just thought it amusing enough to post. Recently I have been playing with non-adhered ones, just pinned at the corners so they float off the paper. Works quite well. Haven't settled on the right subject matter for it yet though.

Thanks Kal, yep, I just boiled the fp100c. Takes about a minute for it to come off. Try it! (alas, it does not work with the b&w instant films... but determined individuals will not that you can get a kinda b&w image by contact printing a b&w positive to fp100c.