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2021 Wyndham Worldmark Hotels image licensing: Colorado | Photography by Christine So | WorldMark Estes Park in Estes Park
2021 Wyndham Worldmark Hotels image licensing: Colorado | Photography by Christine So | WorldMark Estes Park in Estes Park
2021 Wyndham Worldmark Hotels image licensing: Colorado | Photography by Christine So | WorldMark Estes Park in Estes Park

Created and Sold by Christine So

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Christine So

2021 Wyndham Worldmark Hotels image licensing: Colorado - Photography

Featured In WorldMark Estes Park, Estes Park, CO

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The original monotype made in 2019 has sold, but the digital image was licensed by a hotel in the Rocky Mountains where framed reproductions hang in dozens of rooms.

I only do limited edition image licensing for hospitality, not open edition licensing agreements. If you are interested in licensing a different high resolution image or commissioning original artwork in this style, contact me with the details of the intended size of your reproduction and number of prints and I will send you my pricing.

Although this may resemble a screen print or etching, this image in several shades of blue seeming to overlap is a triple-exposure cyanotype, meaning some areas of the light-sensitive paper were exposed to light three times, others twice and others just once. This unique blue print was made not with ink but using the 19th century photographic cyanotype process and fresh-cut plants. My layering and multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially monoprinting, multi-plate block prints and aquatints.

My technique is carefully planned, always keeping in mind the balance of positive and negative space and sequence of the gradated shades of blue to be exposed. There is no copper plate, there is no ink, there is no printing press.There’s just the sun causing the paper to darken every second that it remains exposed to light.

Every botanical print is entirely unique made using fresh cut branches laid in that exact composition on the hand-coated light-sensitive paper only once. My botanical cyanotypes are each one-of-a-kind slow cameraless photographs made outdoors using natural sunlight. There is no lens, no plastic photo negative, no ink, etched plate, carved block or printing press.

Item 2021 Wyndham Worldmark Hotels image licensing: Colorado
Created by Christine So
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
Hand-Printed Botanical, Landscape and Abstract Cyanotypes

Christine So is a native San Franciscan painter, photographer and printmaker living across the bay in the hills of Oakland, California. Her paintings and cyanotypes have been commissioned by Mayo Clinic, Ritz Carlton, Kimpton Hotels, Starbucks, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 15 countries, among them, Timothée Chalamet.

Her calm, monochromatic, nature-inspired works on paper are not printed with ink but are actually a form of photography from the 1800s. She works in the antique photographic process of cyanotypes, creating abstract and botanical monotypes in shades of blue as well as landscape photographs of the foggy woods where she lives. The plants used in her one-off prints are cut from her own garden or found in the woods nearby and printed on pure cotton watercolor paper. No two are alike. Only her landscape photographs developed using giant negatives and the same cyanotype chemicals are replicable, yet even those hand-printed photographs each differ slightly.

Most of the works listed here on Wescover.com are unframed works on paper, specifically cyanotypes. However, Christine So paints in acrylic on canvas and oil on panel as well, and there are about 15 paintings on canvas and panel listed. Most are not framed, but a rare few are. Please read the entire description.

NOTE: Most of the works on paper are sold unframed --although the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their eventual size once a mat and frame are added. Take note of the item's description before purchasing.