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Showing posts with label coffins caskets bugs tintypes flowers mint tins. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2009

tintypes



Coffins for (preserved) bugs. Using a faux tintype process (a trad tintype would have a black background - rather than my almond color - and the printed image would flicker on and off the surface as you moved the print around). I put them into these mint tins (that's the first image)...trying to mimic the traditional Victorian daguerrotype portraits with the metal cases/frames. I need to embellish and decorate the mint tins though. They are bare bones right now.

Close-ups of the prints: