these three images don't excist anymore... They were "alive" for a day - then I have bleached them out, and I am now going to transfer (or try) to make them into bromoil.
These are mostly for reference: I'd like to show the difference between this - brush developing liquid emulsion - and the final result...
Startling eyes and a very graphical result... You're getting ever more painterly, and I think I totally understand why. (Difficult to maintain interest in "straight photography", it doesn't have line and it doesn't have one's one marks.) A couple years ago I tried hard to integrate painting with liquid emulsion. Not by applying developer with a brush, but by trying to paint on the liquid emulsion so that the photographic image itself can have the graphical interest of painting -- of brushwork. I spent lots and lots of time on it and gave up. Tried adding substances to the emulsion to make it workable as "paint" -- no-go, the additives killed the luminosity of the photographic image. I got a couple interesting pictures but had to conclude "Why bother with all this -- if I want a painting, I'll paint one!" I think this whole area can work as part of a larger collage, a mixed-media piece. I have seen some interesting examples, can't remember by whom now.
"It's all about finding the right tool for the image in question"... So true. I work so very slowly, I get lost going down roads of technique that usually turn into dead-ends -- but I often find something interesting that comes in very useful later. Just wish I had more time for it. Cheers Emil -- keep exploring, I'll keep watching! Svend