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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

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Christine So

Dancing Peacock Japanese Maple (36 x 36 handmade 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 Japanese Maple trees whose branches I used to make these cyanotypes lose their leaves in winter.

I can make botanical cyanotypes as big as 22 x 30”, 24 x 36", 36 x 36", 26 x 40”, 30 x 40" and also 24" narrow by up to 60" in length but not more than 24" in width. If you need to cover a large area of wall, a triptych of three vertical cyanotypes works quite well. All of my commissioned works are sold 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
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.