How to Make Huge Photo Prints with Wheat Paste
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Photographer Alastair Bird can be heard mentioning the importance of printing your work often in his videos. And bigger always being better, he offers up a technique for making very large, very cheap prints. Wheat paste coupled with the output from rasterbator.net and a laser printer can equal some fun results.
ohhh this is perfect!!!!
Nice. Love film especially medium format. Your lo fi version works really well.
Cool video. Thanks for sharing. I like the image too. Works well in half tone.
Good stuff! Keep the good videos coming. I will subscribe
thanks for the video!
Lovely idea, lots of wrinkles though. I might try this with an great iPhone shot I have in monochrome but use photo paper and just use standard PVA glue on the back only. Thanks for the tip.
I wouldn't use photo paper with wheat paste. Well, I would do some testing, first. The wheat paste works because it soaks through the thin bond paper. The glue on top is to *hopefully* flatten out the paper but it's a bit of a dance. After doing it a few times I got a lot better at it, but it takes a delicate hand to get the glue spread properly and to make sure things don't get too wrinkled. That said, wheat paste is a street art technique - basically to put up things in a hurry. Practice makes perfect but it will never replace a big, proper, print. If you do use standard PVA glue then it would work more cleanly than wheat paste for sure. Good luck!
In the collage work I have done, I used to have a terrible time with wrinkles. Then a friend who hangs wallpaper suggested that I fully saturate the paper front and back with plenty of water based adhesive (wheat paste, straight PVA, acrylic gel, whatever). I actually run the papers through a water bath to make sure they are saturated. Then I blot them before gluing to the substrate. That eliminated the problems with wrinkles and buckling of the paper. Everything lays nice and flat. My friend's explanation was that the way I had been doing it before, with uneven moistening of the paper, created differences in the way the paper fibers expanded and then contracted as they got wet and dried. Once the glue sets up with uneven wetting, those wrinkles are pretty much there to stay. The full wetting method works for me and seems to work best with the lighter weight papers like standard printer paper and "art" papers.
@@PritchardArts Thanks for the explanation! I'll have to do more images with your technique!
I go to a local printer reprographics place that will print 3x4 foot graphic for $15. Not bad. This is really cool though!
Not bad is right! 3x4 feet for $15 is a great price. Glad you liked the video. Thanks!
Can I use starch? Like, the one used for starching clothes.
Also, what do you add to prevent mold? It's humid where I live and it just rained for 3 days and my cottonbuds got moldy (the sticks are made of wood rather than plastic).
Not sure if you can use starch. I would assume so, as you just need something inexpensive that you can dissolve in hot water and when it dries it sticks. As for preventing mold - we don't have much of a mold issue here (Vancouver, Canada) but it does happen if things stay wet. I would guess there must be some sort of an easy anti-fungal agent you can use. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, though.
How long after cooling do you have to use the glue before it goes off , ie will it still be effective and stick if used after cooling , if so how long is the timeframe ? please advise , thanks sky
Not exactly sure, to be honest. I have seen people putting up signs with a tub of glue that must have been around for hours. My guess is that it would last for a day? You can definitely use it after cooling. As long as it’s well mixed it won’t get lumpy until it dries out.
Thanks
No problem
What type of flour
Just regular white flour worked for me.
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How do you keep the prints in order?
They all have a number printed on them that corresponds to the position. A1, A2, A3... B1, B2, B3 sort of thing.
@@UnderexposedwithAlastairBird is there a way to make it big like that without dots
@@AnxiousCowboy Not as far as I know. This process is using a halftone screen concept - I'm not familiar with any process where the images don't have the dots, I'm afraid.
@@UnderexposedwithAlastairBird do I only upload the image and then I can simply print them separately in a photocopier and get the total portrait ? How does the printing work
@@mimimi3440 I haven't done it for a while now, but you upload the image and then download a pdf that you print off on a printer, rather than a photocopier. It's a pdf that is a bunch of pages, all different which make up the portrait. If that makes sense? If not let me know and I can explain further.
this is a regular paper?
It is - regular bond paper and a regular laser printer. Super-cheap!
Looking like bobby flay😂
Wish I could cook like Bobby Flay...