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Blue Valley II (FRAMED original cyanotype in 24 x 30" frame) - Photography
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ON EXHIBITION FEBRUARY- MARCH 2024. Art Works Downtown gallery in San Rafael, California.
If you would like to purchase this framed monotype, you may contact the gallery at that time.
Though these one-of-a-kind monotypes look like aquatint etchings or watercolor paintings, they are actually a form of photography called cyanotypes or sun prints. A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects on the light-sensitive paper, I used water to block the light, creating subtle gradations of darkening blue as I submerged the light-sensitive paper for different carefully timed exposures under water, turning, bending and angling the paper as needed to shape the lines before they become permanently etched by the sun’s light.
If you would like to purchase this framed monotype, you may contact the gallery at that time.
Though these one-of-a-kind monotypes look like aquatint etchings or watercolor paintings, they are actually a form of photography called cyanotypes or sun prints. A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background. But instead of creating a white image by blocking light with solid objects on the light-sensitive paper, I used water to block the light, creating subtle gradations of darkening blue as I submerged the light-sensitive paper for different carefully timed exposures under water, turning, bending and angling the paper as needed to shape the lines before they become permanently etched by the sun’s light.
Item Blue Valley II (FRAMED original cyanotype in 24 x 30" frame)
Created by Christine So
As seen in Private Residence, Oakland, CA