(22.5 x 30 inch botanical cyanotype on paper)
Unframed.
The agapanthus flower is native to South Africa. I have a hundred appear in my garden in California each summer. Though these monotypes look like woodcuts or screen prints, they are actually a form of photography called a cyanotype.
Every botanical cyanotype I make is unique made using fresh plants and trees from my own garden 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 gaining mastery of.
Hand-printed on 100% cotton Arches watercolor paper with decorative deckled edges which look beautiful float-mounted rather than behind a mat. On heavy 100% cotton acid-free watercolor paper.
Signed on the back.
(22.5 x 30 inch botanical cyanotype on paper)
Unframed.
The agapanthus flower is native to South Africa. I have a hundred appear in my garden in California each summer. Though these monotypes look like woodcuts or screen prints, they are actually a form of photography called a cyanotype.
Every botanical cyanotype I make is unique made using fresh plants and trees from my own garden 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 gaining mastery of.
Hand-printed on 100% cotton Arches watercolor paper with decorative deckled edges which look beautiful float-mounted rather than behind a mat. On heavy 100% cotton acid-free watercolor paper.
Signed on the back.
