From: JEFFREY PAULL (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Dec 27 2008 - 19:25:41 PST
For tinting movie film, also try Dr. Martin's Tranparent watercolors (all dye, no pigment particles).
There is also a Luma brand. Both tend to be very light fast.
Available at big art stores.
These dye watercolour paints have great intensity and a large range of colours.
Watercolours in tubes may also have pigments - finely ground pieces of colour - that
don't soak into the film, and so, don't tint very strongly.
Note:
If you are drawing on film, use permenant markers to mark on the base (shiny) side of the film,
and use non-permenant (meaning water based ink) markers on the emulsion side.
The emulsion gelatin absorbs water, and the dye along with it.
But the emulsion won't absorb the solvent-based permenant marker dye, so colour is weak.
Whatever you do use on the film - paint, inks, gold stars,
mind that stuff won't scrape off into the hot gate going through the projector,
or unknowingly wreck the super-clean equipment at the lab.
Anything transferring from film to metal in the hot projector gate tends to get baked on.
Oy vay!
Jeffrey Paull
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