Gum Bichromate Printing is a manual technique of photography invented in the 1850s that uses watercolors and sunlight to render an image.
The gum printing process helped artists establish photography as an accepted
medium of creative expression over 100 years ago. These are my modern gum prints.
Illustrated tutorials on the techniques I use to make gum bichromate prints, covering the basics and more advanced topics,
including sections on inkjet transparencies and methods of printing.
My name is Billy Mabrey and I am an Artist and Photographer located in
Grapevine, Texas. I am also a drawing and digital arts instructor. I have worked
with gum bichromate photography since 2003 while studying at Southern Methodist University.
