In May 2011 I attended a workshop
in the National Museum of Photography in Jindřichův Hradec. The museum is now called Museum of Photography and Modern Visual Media.
The topics of the practical workshop were Oil painting
and Bromeliad. It was my first introduction to historical photographic techniques.
The reason for my participation was that I had been interested in earlier works from the history of photography for a long time, and oil printing was one of them. Among other photographic processes, oil printing was also used to create pictorialists.
You can find successful and well-preserved oil prints in various galleries and learn more about this process, for example, at Wikipedia .
Bromolej is essentially identical to oil printing. The difference is in the paper used - the basis for bromolej is silver bromide paper. With oil printing, you need to make your own gelatin paper, which is why it is more difficult to prepare.
Gelatin papers for oil printing, which are not exactly easy to make for a beginner, can also be purchased from specialized sellers of accessories for historical photographic techniques.
The workshop was led by an experienced practitioner Rasto Chambal and the weekend workshop took place in the beautiful premises of the National Museum of Photography in Jindřichův Hradec.
I had the opportunity to meet interesting people here, including Michaela Pospíšilová and the well-known fashion photographer Lucia Robinson.
Michaela led the workshop together with Rastě – her specialization is Bromeliad.
Lucie Robinson at work during the workshop.
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Both oil and bromide are worth trying. Only by practicing and gaining your own experience will you achieve very high-quality results - this applies in general. If you want to achieve consistent results, you cannot rely on chance and work in a trial-and-error style. Of course, you can also try it this way, but the path is usually much more demanding, in terms of time, physically and often mentally - failure can discourage you. An important factor in trial-and-error work is financial. If you do not count your time, you need to take into account the investments made in the materials you create from.
With Rasťo Čambál and my first oil print
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I wish you many successful and beautiful oil prints and bromeliads!
A quality one will last you (proven by history) for more than 100 years 🙂
An oil print (left) and bromine oil created by me.
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One of my great role models Frantisek Drtikol In addition to his commercial work, he also created oil prints, which currently have great artistic and collector's value.
„"From yards and courtyards of old Prague"“ #Drticol #Oilprint http://t.co/3gtyoC78np pic.twitter.com/hn3mSchLnp — Jan Kratochvíl (@kolodium) January 7, 2015
Source: F. Drtikol- A. Škarda – Google Images
— ENGLISH VERSION —
In May 2011, I attended a workshop at the National Museum of Photography in Jindřichův Hradec. The workshop subject was Rawlins Oil Print and Bromoil Print. It was for me the first introduction to historical photographic techniques. The reason for participating in this workshop was my long-term interest in the work of old masters of photography. Rawlins oil print was one of them. Oil print was besides other photographic processes used by pictorialists . The workshop was led by an experienced practitioner Rasťo Čambal http://www.rastocambal.com/. This weekend workshop was held in the beautiful National Museum of Photography in Jindřichův Hradec. Now is the museum called Museum of Photography and Modern Visual Media.
I had the possibility to get acquainted with interesting people for instance wiht Michaela Pospíšilová or a famous Czech fashion photographer Lucie Robinson. 
Lucie Robinson during her work at workshop.
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Michaela was leading the workshop together with Rasto – her specialty is Bromoil. If you are interested in historical photographic processes you should at least try Rawlins Oil print or Bromoil. Bromoil is easier you don't need to make the paper – you can buy it by FOM or other producers who produce silver bromide papers.
With Rasto and my first Rawlins Oil Print
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Han makes fun and if you create a good oil print, then it lasts more than a hundred years! Photo of my workshop attempts Who does not believe should go to some museum and search for oil prints.
My Rawlins Oil Print (on the left) and Bromoil print from the workshop.
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My big role model Frantisek Drtikol created in 20th century well-known oil prints.
„"From yards and courtyards of old Prague"“ #Drticol #Oilprint http://t.co/3gtyoC78np pic.twitter.com/hn3mSchLnp — Jan Kratochvíl (@kolodium) January 7, 2015
Source: F. Drtikol- A. Škarda – Google Images
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