Forte photographic paper

camtec · Jul 23, 2014

Does anyone know of a source for Forte polywarmtone Art Fiber base paper? I am a colorist using Marshal oils to paint photos. Recommendations for other fiber based papers that absorb oils would be appreciated also.

eddie · Jul 23, 2014

I do a lot of hand painting on the Ilford MGIV matte. I also use their warmtone semi-matte.

chriscrawfordphoto · Jul 24, 2014

Forte went out of business several years ago, so I doubt you'll find anyone who has any of this paper for sale, and if they do, its expired.

mnemosyne · Jul 24, 2014

camtec said:
Does anyone know of a source for Forte polywarmtone Art Fiber base paper? I am a colorist using Marshal oils to paint photos. Recommendations for other fiber based papers that absorb oils would be appreciated also.

Apart from a lucky find of old stock at the usual place your only hope would be The Polywarmtone Project

Michael W · Jul 24, 2014

Foma 123 is good, the velvet stipple surface.

Bob Carnie · Jul 24, 2014

Ilford Art 300 works very well for hand colouring

winger · Jul 24, 2014

eddie said:
I do a lot of hand painting on the Ilford MGIV matte. I also use their warmtone semi-matte.

Me, too. And Ilford's Art300 is a dream with pencils.

Ian Grant · Jul 24, 2014

chriscrawfordphoto said:
Forte went out of business several years ago, so I doubt you'll find anyone who has any of this paper for sale, and if they do, its expired.

I bought a lot from the last batch made and it's still perfect.

I've also got somee Fortepan 200 in 10x8, that's fine as well.

Ian

camtec · Jul 25, 2014

Thanks Eddie. May I suggest Ilford's multigrade art 300 paper. It is fiber based and holds oils very well. Ektalure it ain't, but it is the best I have found since Forte went under. It is made by Hahnemuhle and sold by Ilford.

camtec · Jul 25, 2014

Thanks Michael, I'll give it a try. Does it absorb oils well?

Michael W · Jul 25, 2014

camtec said:
Thanks Michael, I'll give it a try. Does it absorb oils well?

This is Marshalls photo oils on Foma 123. Was easy to work with.

Simon R Galley · Jul 25, 2014

Dear Camtec,

May have just been a typo....but.

ILFORD ART300 is made and coated at Mobberley by HARMAN technology Limited on a base made exclusively for HARMAN by Hahnemuehle ( and a lovely base it is as well ) whilst it is a 'Fibre base' technically it is a 'fine art' base adjusted to have 'wet strength' for photo processing.

Simon ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

Wayne · Jul 25, 2014

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eddie · Jul 25, 2014

I like the results using Art300, too. Another thing I do is use liquid emulsion on watercolor papers. You can get very textural results, depending on the paper surface.

MattKing · Jul 25, 2014

camtec said:
Thanks Eddie. May I suggest Ilford's multigrade art 300 paper. It is fiber based and holds oils very well. Ektalure it ain't, but it is the best I have found since Forte went under. It is made by Hahnemuhle and sold by Ilford.

Not quite correct.

Hahnemuhle makes the underlying paper support. Harman/Ilford then manufactures photographic paper using that support and their emulsion coating techniques.

Oops - Simon beat me to it.

I've seen this confusion before, and think that it arises from the listing descriptions at places like B & H

pentaxuser · Jul 25, 2014

Time somebody commented on Michael W's hand colouring on Foma 123. Not much to be said really except one word - Brilliant

pentaxuser

camtec · Jul 25, 2014

Very good Michael. Do you tone your prints before coloring them? To those who corrected me, thanks for the info.

Michael W · Jul 26, 2014

camtec said:
Very good Michael. Do you tone your prints before coloring them? To those who corrected me, thanks for the info.

That one wasn't toned & I haven't coloured a print for a while. Could be a good thing to try however.

subsole · Jul 26, 2014

http://www.polywarmtone.com/index.html

http://www.polywarmtone.com/Blog/English.html

Xmas · Jul 26, 2014

pentaxuser said:
Time somebody commented on Michael W's hand colouring on Foma 123. Not much to be said really except one word - Brilliant

pentaxuser

real nice

Is there a step be step on site or book?

Noel

Simonh82 · Jul 27, 2014

I've not really come across this technique before. In my mind I thought it would look much more like painting by numbers.

Michael W's example is beautiful. Much more subtle than I was expecting and still very much a photo. Really lovely effect that I will look in to more.

Thanks for sharing.

camtec · Jul 27, 2014

To get realistic skin tones in portraits, I first sepia or brown tone photos first.

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