Autumn Twilight Diptych (Two 33 x 33 inch UNFRAMED original cyanotypes on paper)

These are two separate square prints each measuring 33 x 33 inches. They could each be framed in a 36 x 36“ frame with a 1 1/2 inch border around the image. Side by side once framed they will span over 6 feet on a wall.

At 33 x 66 inches, this is the biggest size of cyanotype diptych that I have made. This particular graceful tree is a Chinese Elm.

Though these monoprints look like a wood cut or screen print, this is actually a form of photography called a cyanotype. Every botanical cyanotype I make is unique made using fresh plants and trees laid in that exact composition on the hand-coated light-sensitive paper only once.

There is no ink, no printing press and no copper plate or wood block. Exposing and rinsing a sun print this big outdoors — with a sheet of glass even bigger than the paper —is a complicated affair, but one I am going to be exploring further.

On 100% cotton acid-free watercolor paper. Ships rolled in a tube.