What’s an artist’s proof? This photograph is only 33 × 23 inches while final editions of this image are 2 inches taller at 35 × 23”. This is one of my first tries at printing this new giant photograph on hand-coated watercolor paper. The first attempts had discoloration at the top edge from the way I’d brushed the photo chemicals on too heavily. These early “artist proofs” (attempts) were cropped to eliminate the blur at the top edge and are thus shorter and priced lower than the “perfect” prints in the final run. The only difference if there are 2 inches less empty sky at the top.
This is a new higher resolution photograph taken in 2025 standing in the exact same place as my 2022 photograph of the same name. The difference is the format is taller and narrower (2:3 instead of 3:4) and there is more path visible, although it's darker and in the shade, and no wet path glistening on the right. The baby oak tree beneath the towering pine tree has also grown a bit.
All of my hand-printed cyanotype photographs are “contact photos”, which means that the large negative is exactly the same size as the paper that the photo is printed on because the negative is laid directly on top of the paper while it is being exposed.
The paper is a heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper. Slight variations of shades of blue exist from print to print as each sheet of paper was hand-painted with photo chemicals in the dark and printed in natural sunlight with variations in the weather and intensity of light causing some prints to be darker than others.
Ships free to the United States rolled in a tube.
What’s an artist’s proof? This photograph is only 33 × 23 inches while final editions of this image are 2 inches taller at 35 × 23”. This is one of my first tries at printing this new giant photograph on hand-coated watercolor paper. The first attempts had discoloration at the top edge from the way I’d brushed the photo chemicals on too heavily. These early “artist proofs” (attempts) were cropped to eliminate the blur at the top edge and are thus shorter and priced lower than the “perfect” prints in the final run. The only difference if there are 2 inches less empty sky at the top.
This is a new higher resolution photograph taken in 2025 standing in the exact same place as my 2022 photograph of the same name. The difference is the format is taller and narrower (2:3 instead of 3:4) and there is more path visible, although it's darker and in the shade, and no wet path glistening on the right. The baby oak tree beneath the towering pine tree has also grown a bit.
All of my hand-printed cyanotype photographs are “contact photos”, which means that the large negative is exactly the same size as the paper that the photo is printed on because the negative is laid directly on top of the paper while it is being exposed.
The paper is a heavy 100% cotton watercolor paper. Slight variations of shades of blue exist from print to print as each sheet of paper was hand-painted with photo chemicals in the dark and printed in natural sunlight with variations in the weather and intensity of light causing some prints to be darker than others.
Ships free to the United States rolled in a tube.
