Paper negatives would be easiest to distress, but I wasnt really sure how to go about it. I took a straight RA print of white clouds and blue sky and made a paper negative of it on RA4 paper using a mask of unexposed, processed Ektar. I developed the paper negative normally (it came out oddly monochromatic, see below) and then I contact printed the paper negative onto RA4, again using the orange mask. I wasn't sure so I just used my normal filter pack 55y/60m for both the negative and the print. The final print, surprisingly, came out with somewhat blueish sky and whiteish clouds. Far from perfect but better than I expected. The final print picked up a lot of texture from the paper, which is OK, and i couldn't see any printing from the paper back, which is even better than OK. All in all it shows some promise. I searched but didn't find much on RA4 paper negatives
other than this thread on in-camera paper negatives, but surely its been done.
I also tried it without using a mask to make the paper negative, but the final print came out way too blue.
What could I have done better? This doesn't look like a correctable color shift, although i havent tried.
The final print is in the middle, the paper negative on the left and the original straight print on the right. No attempt made at correction so wysiwyg