I spy with my Little eye, Tricolor Gum!

I spy with my little eye, Tricolor Gum. A series of colorful pages with hidden objects inside every photo.  While searching through each photograph for the hidden item, you get to explore the look of the Gum process.  The various colors that are all made from blue, yellow, and red layers compiled together in order to make a beautiful work of art is what I intended on showing.  Using the game of “I Spy” viewers are forced to look into the nooks and crannies of each photo in order to find the desired object.  I reached way back into my childhood years to come up with a project that kept me entertained and excited.  My goal for this project was to have people dig into their memories and to relive the excitement of I Spy books. 

Gum bichromate printing is a 19th-century multi-layered printing process of taking watercolor pigment, gum arabic, and ammonium dichromate. With these three things together you then begin to paint onto watercolor paper. Your picture of your choosing is split into three negatives, one magenta, blue, and yellow. With the corresponding color negative is placed on the hardened colloid and exposed to light (lightbox) for a certain amount of time, sections of your image will appear once placed in warm water. All colors are repeated and can continue for more than three layers.