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Autumn Twilight I (36 x 36" FRAMED hand-printed cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So
Autumn Twilight I (36 x 36" FRAMED hand-printed cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So
Autumn Twilight I (36 x 36" FRAMED hand-printed cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Autumn Twilight I (36 x 36" FRAMED hand-printed cyanotype) - Photography

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SOLD. If you would like to commission a similar large scale hand-printed cyanotype of this kind of tree, it must be between April and November. I use fresh-cut actual branches, and the Chinese Elm trees, whose branches I used to make these cyanotypes, lose their leaves in winter.

Framed in a 1.25" wide white wood frame with a 1" profile and no mat.

At 36 x 36 inches, almost 1 meter square, this is the biggest size of cyanotype I have made. This is a Chinese Elm tree which has long graceful bending branches with thousands of tiny leaves that hang like a willow.

Same 36 x 36-inch size and same white wood frame as "Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II" and the same tree as used in "Autumn Twilight Diptych" and also in the biggest of all, the 36 x 48-inch "Autumn Twilight II."

The Chinese elm tree has long slender branches that hang downward like those of willow trees. This was made with living branches from a huge Chinese elm tree in San Francisco that was being trimmed. I love the way elms, willows and beech trees drape their strands of leaves like tinsel that blows in the breeze.

Though this monoprint looks like a wood cut or screen print, this is actually a form of photography called a cyanotype. 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 Autumn Twilight I (36 x 36" FRAMED hand-printed cyanotype)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Private Residence, Houston, TX
Christine So
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2023
The World Is Blue: 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 Starbucks, Mayo Clinic, Kimpton Hotels, Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, UTMB Hospital in Galveston and purchased by private collectors in 10 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.

She paints in acrylic on canvas and prints cyanotypes on paper. Most of her works on paper are sold unframed though the display photos may depict them as framed on a virtual wall to give a sense of their size. There are some paintings listed as unframed and others as framed. Take not of the description before purchasing.