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Chinese Elm Triptych: three 24x18" cyanotypes/ 24x54" total | Etching in Paintings by Christine So

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Christine So

Chinese Elm Triptych: three 24x18" cyanotypes/ 24x54" total - Paintings

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This set of three unframed 24 x 18 inch cyanotypes has sold but similar ones can be commissioned between April and October. That is before this species of tree loses much of its leaves.

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.

Item Chinese Elm Triptych: three 24x18" cyanotypes/ 24x54" total
Created by Christine So
As seen in Private Residence, Hermanus, South Africa
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.