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Delft Agapanthus 5: 24 x 18" Original Painting-Cyanotype Mix | Watercolor Painting in Paintings by Christine So | O'Hanlon Center For the Arts in Mill Valley

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Delft Agapanthus 5: 24 x 18" Original Painting-Cyanotype Mix

Featured In O'Hanlon Center For the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

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Delft Agapanthus 5: 24 x 18" Original Painting-Cyanotype hybrid

This is a one-of-a kind painting using light-sensitive photography chemicals instead of paint. It takes ten times longer to create than a simple cyanotype.

This is a combination of painting and a kind of alternative photographic process from the 1800s: cyanotype. I first drew the agapanthus flowers, then I painted it in in a dark room —not with ink or paint, but with light-sensitive photo emulsion used for cyanotypes.

The blue and white pattern seen in each leaf which resembles painted Delft pottery is really a sun print or cameraless photograph of tiny plants laid on top. If you look closely you may see a tiny flower or two.

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Item Delft Agapanthus 5: 24 x 18" Original Painting-Cyanotype Mix
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.