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Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and japandi style
Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and japandi style
Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and japandi style
Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and japandi style
Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and japandi style
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Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") | Etching in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper compatible with boho and japandi style

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Christine So

Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66") - Paintings

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40H x 66W x 1D in
101.6H x 167.64W x 2.54D cm
1.36 kg
3 lb

Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66")
These are THREE unframed 22 x 40 inch cyanotypes.

Each is a unique handmade monoprint. Each print once framed would be closer to 44”h x 26”w, spanning around 70 inches or 6.5 -7 feet side by side with gaps between the panels.

These are hand-printed monotypes, one-of-kind cyanotypes. Cyanotypes are a kind of 19th century cameraless photographic process dating back to the 1840s. The chemicals used produce a blue and white image rather than a black and white one.

The process can be used to print photographs taken with a camera by using a giant plastic film negative or without negatives using solid objects such as plants to create a print of their shadows. There is no printing press, no ink, no etched copper plate nor carved wood block to be able to reproduce these images. Each is a unique monotype made using real plants.

These 40-inch unique prints are the largest size cyanotypes I have made. It is complicated at this scale to first set up the images while in darkness indoors and then move them outdoors without breaking the 48-inch sheet of glass that is placed on top of the plants, or having the plants slide out of position on the way to being exposed to sunlight. The exposed photograms (sun prints) are so large they must be rinsed outdoors with a garden hose.

NOTE: The leaves are a light blue and not white.
Printed on 100% cotton heavy Arches watercolor paper. Signed on the back.

Item Chinese Elm Triptych (3 Handmade Cyanotypes total 40 x 66")
Created by Christine So
As seen in Creator's Studio, Oakland, CA
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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.