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Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting) | Mixed Media in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting) | Mixed Media in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting) | Mixed Media in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting) | Mixed Media in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting) | Mixed Media in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style
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Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting) | Mixed Media in Paintings by Christine So. Item made of paper works with boho & country & farmhouse style

Created and Sold by Christine So

Christine So

Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting)

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DimensionsWeight
40H x 26W x 1D in
101.6H x 66.04W x 2.54D cm
0.45 kg
1 lb

Unframed.

This original one-off is a combination of painting and an antique photographic process, cyanotype. I drew the silhouette of a California native coastal madrone tree branch and painted it in —not with ink or watercolors, but with the light-sensitive photography chemicals used to print cyanotypes (also called sun prints and blueprints).

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 during exposure to light. If you look closely you can see the outlines of tiny leaves or flowers.

Item Delft Madrone II (40 x 26" Original Cyanotype Painting)
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.