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Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple (36 x 36 handmade cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So
Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple (36 x 36 handmade cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So
Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple (36 x 36 handmade cyanotype) | Photography by Christine So

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple (36 x 36 handmade cyanotype) - Photography

Featured In Massachusetts, USA, MA, MA

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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 Japanese Maple trees whose branches I used to make these cyanotypes lose their leaves in winter.

UNFRAMED.
(*Same size as the framed "Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple II)
On 100% cotton watercolor paper. Signed on the back by the artist.

At 36 x 36 inches , almost 1 x 1 m , this is the biggest size of cyanotype I have made. The tree grows in my own backyard. It is a particularly beautiful species of Japanese maple and is the title I have given it, so that no one can forget.

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 plants and trees from my own garden laid in that exact composition on the hand-coated light-sensitive paper only once. There is no ink, no printing press and no copper plate or wood block. Exposing and rinsing a sunprint this big outdoors — with a sheet of glass even bigger than the paper —is a delicate and complicated affair.

On 100% cotton acid-free watercolor paper. Ships rolled in a tube.

Item Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple (36 x 36 handmade cyanotype)
Created by Christine So
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.